The faster an economy rushes itself into growth, the sooner it will perish. All previous economies followed this fate except one: Earth’s billion-year-old natural resource economy has never grown, shrunk or collapsed, at least not until humans came into the picture. Humans think that they invented the economy, but all they did was parasitize an existing … Continue reading Dissecting An Economic Parasite: The Story Of The Greatest Fraud On Earth

Act 1: The Invention of the Morally Corrupt Consumer Whenever I order a piece of cake at a restaurant, I always wonder how many more pieces of cake there are back in the kitchen.  Not because I’m greedy, but because I’m fascinated by how, from a logistics point of view, the restaurant manages to achieve … Continue reading How Humans Invented Waste

I live at the very edge of a massive rock that juts off into the north Aegean Sea. It forms an impressive peninsula made entirely of granite that spans about 5 city blocks, but you would be forgiven for completely failing to notice it. You see, the towering rock peninsula is hidden under a forest … Continue reading Memories of Extinction

Value comes in many shapes and forms.  Gold and diamonds may be two of the most chemically and biologically inert substances on Earth, but they have immense value to humans.  Conversely things like dead leaves, mud, sea water or desert dust have little monetizable value in the human economy but huge importance for the planet.  … Continue reading The Pseudoscience of Economics