It is ironic that a species so obsessed with the future would base its entire civilisation on the fossilised remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Our daily existence relies upon the burning of ancient corpses that died hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans even appeared, and this serves … Continue reading Fossilised Economies
Every economy which fails to manage its growth eventually destroys itself. Humanity has embraced continuous expansion, a concept no different than cancer. Pausing or stopping growth altogether is essential for all living organisms - and this is why every single species on this planet comes with genes that are dedicated to managing growth. Degrowth is … Continue reading Biology Lessons In Degrowth
One tiny piece of DNA, surrounded by a layer of proteins, floating in a microscopic droplet of water from someone's sneeze. That’s all it is, that’s all it takes, to change the course of an entire civilization. A molecule which isn't even visible on a conventional microscope, yet powerful enough to change the course of … Continue reading Transformation Through Collapse: How Viruses Have Shaped Our Civilisations
From space, our planet looks like an ever-changing marble. To an alien civilisation, the massive white storm clouds constantly shifting above oceans and landmasses would have probably suggested that this is one messy, stormy, unstable and unwelcoming environment; perhaps one which is on the verge of implosion under all this turmoil. While this may have … Continue reading Rogue Currencies
Fat deposits in our body work exactly like a battery: whenever there is a surplus of food in our bloodstream, insulin hormone is released which diverts this food into storage. This happens within specialized cells which are able to turn carbohydrates and proteins into a molecule which is the perfect battery pack: incredibly light and … Continue reading Capitalism Is A Metabolic Disease. Welcome To Your Late Stage Economic Diabetes
How much time do I have left? This is the very first question which pops into a terminal patient's head when they first hear their diagnosis. They simply want to know how much life they have left, down to the number of days, if possible. Every single day remaining has now gained a new significance, … Continue reading Why Become An Activist When The World Is Already Collapsing?
When I was a kid, my parents bought me an illustrated guide to Greek wildflowers. Along with extensive botanical descriptions, there were images of flowers in their natural settings taken by wildflower enthusiasts over the years. Below each blowout image there was the usual information: where the plant may be found, what time of the … Continue reading The Global Voodoo Doll
The reviews are in. Smoking hopium is bad for your health. One of the biggest illusions of the environmental movement today is nurturing next-year miracles: stubbornly hoping that somewhere, sometime, there are specific cognitive triggers that will awaken this civilisation to climate and ecological devastation. There is an almost dogmatic conviction among some environmentalists that, … Continue reading Hopium Addiction: A 12-Step Program
Once a luxury item, tourism has now become essential for humans. We live such ugly lives, that we’ll take the most drastic action to have even the tiniest, brief break from it all: escape. And yet, the respite is always too brief. A long weekend, perhaps a week or 10 days, sometimes even a month … Continue reading Tourists of the Apocalypse
Welcome to Santorini. Bienvenue. Willkommen. Καλως Ηλθατε. If you don’t know what Santorini is or where it is, then hats off to you, though it is extremely unlikely that you would have escaped the harassment of doctored-up Instagram images which remove the crowds and the pollution, masking the unliveable temperature conditions with the classic soothing … Continue reading The Hellhole of Santorini
George Tsakraklides 