Every other day I pass by the same spot: a paved, pedestrianised square right by the ocean with raised beds of plain, green grass that is kept mowed and inundated throughout the seasons. It is a year-round struggle to keep grass green in a country where the ecosystem naturally turns yellow and brown in the … Continue reading Welcome to Greece!
RELEASING: 27 May 2026 KINDLE PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW One of the biggest misconceptions about collapse is that it only concerns the future or present, when in fact, human history is defined as much by its periods of growth as it is by a long list of frequent, spectacular collapse events. Whilst the symptoms of collapse … Continue reading BOOK LAUNCH: The Biology of Collapse
Every oligarch is a tumour growing at the expense of surrounding healthy tissue: the humans and other organisms making up the ecosystem. While normal cells follow a strict path of growth for only a set number of generations, tumour cells never stop multiplying, hoarding resources in the process. This is why capitalism is inherently carcinogenic: … Continue reading The Dogma of the Cancer Cell
A funeral is one of the few occasions where the world of the living comes face to face with the world of the dead. The interaction between the two worlds always feels like oil and water: it is surreal, anxious, uncomfortable. Here we are, we all woke up this morning, took our showers, put on … Continue reading Collapsing Into the Present: Love Letters to The Dead
Although most species are territorial only within their specific niche, humans have taken territoriality to planetary level. The creation of the concept of entitlement – to food, territory, and even other humans - was our attempt to rewrite ecosystem etiquette by inventing yet another moral licence for aggression. By proclaiming our unlimited entitlement to resources, … Continue reading How Extinction Was Legalised
Just as the 2026 World Adaptation Forum in Budapest was coming to an end, silence was already beginning to rewild the space we had all desperately tried to fill with our voices, structured presentations, and conversations. Overloaded with three days of caffeine and overwhelmed by a cacophony of intellectual stimulants, I dedicated my last day … Continue reading The Power of Natural Chaos
War precedes the appearance of humans on the planet and, is in fact, as ancient as Earth itself. Every species has known war, and every species has evolved the art of warfare. From human Tomahawk missiles to fungal chemical weapons, wasp attacks and viral particles taking on armies of white blood cells, the best defence … Continue reading Gaia’s Revenge: Why Humans Are The New Dinosaurs
140 million years ago, plants did something extraordinary: they began forming flowers. This allowed them to enlist insects in the task of transporting pollen from one plant to another, revolutionizing their reproductive process. Flowering plants quickly dominated the plant kingdom because of this ingenious partnership with flying insects that allowed distant individuals of the same … Continue reading What Do Humans Actually Contribute to Earth?
It was the Late Jurassic. Dinosaurs were still around. The planet was covered in very shallow, warm seas full of plant life. But the oceans were so warm that oxygen couldn’t penetrate them. Anything that died took a very long time to decompose without oxygen. As billions of algae and plankton perished and fell to … Continue reading A Future History of Oil
Solar power was never a human technology. It was prototyped 3.5 billion years ago by bacteria, upgraded a billion years later by Earth’s first terraforming civilisation of oxygen-producing microbes, and finally adopted by algae, higher plants and forests as the ecosystem’s official engine. Solar capture became the dominant energy currency on Earth because it was … Continue reading Toxic Biomimicry: How Humans Turned Sunlight into an Industry
George Tsakraklides 