Deep thought – Aug 6
-Unpopular Science
-“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire
-The Problem is Us
Overshoot
Economics – Aug 4
-China’s debt paints ugly picture
-Manipulated Government GDP Statistics Report is Just Plain Wrong
-Q&A: ‘Time to De-Grow’
it’s the end of the world as we know it (…and I feel fine) (1)
it’s the end of the world as we know it (…and I feel fine) (1)
Probably few saw this meltdown coming. We have come to view human progress as a given, and an ever growing economy and living standard as an entitlement.
Reality Report: Interview with Noah Raford
Noah Raford is an urban planner and the Director of Space Syntax Limited in North America. This show discusses how complex social systems become inflexible, leading to their collapse, and what strategies individuals aware of collapse might use to cope.
California – July 6
California in ‘fiscal emergency’
California’s IOU to the world
Californians are sinking themselves
A brief ecological manifesto
For a European website I attempted to write a concise, blunt assessment of our ecological predicament in hopes that perhaps at least one person of influence might read and understand what I believe we face: “We are in overshoot. Failure to recognize this fact and act on it will ultimately condemn humans worldwide to nature’s cure for this condition: collapse.”
Investing in durability
If you are planning to withdraw, please tell me where you’re going, and send directions. If not, it’s time to start thinking about how you and your family or tribe will muddle through the years ahead. One word comes to mind: durability. If that wasn’t the first word that came to your mind, I’m not surprised.
Deep thought – June 21
Collapse Dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems
How will knowledge of collapse impact collapse?
Again social evils haunt Britain. Do we still have the spirit to thwart them?
Machiavelli’s insight
Maintaining Our Prosperity
Australia’s new Energy White Paper will be crucial in dealing prudently and effectively with the immense challenges facing Australia as the era of cheap energy and the economic system based upon it comes to an end. We are now in the early stages of an unprecedented economic failure – the terminal decline and probable collapse of global Capitalism.
Deep thought – June 12
Jason Bradford: A Message to the Nearly Converted
Profiting from Scarcity
A Review of Neil Jackson’s Photo Essay “Conflict”
Humanity’s Choice: A Series of Exits—Not a Fork in the Road
The ecological and economic prognosticators who warn of a potentially unpleasant future for the human enterprise typically portray humanity as being at a fork in the road on our evolutionary journey. They contend that we are at a pivotal decision point at which we must make an “either/or” choice between a positive future outcome and a negative future outcome.
The fifth problem: peak capital
Much of what we are seeing now may be a symptom of peak capital approaching: airports, roads, bridges, dikes, dams, and about everything that goes under the name of “infrastructure” are decaying everywhere in the world. The whole economic system is becoming unable to maintain the level of complexity it had reached just a few decades ago.
