Listen to my new interview at Alex Smith's Ecoshock Radio about my latest book and more. Alex asks me about some of the main concepts in the book, chapter by chapter. And here is the previous interview from last January George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on … Continue reading Beyond The Petri Dish (Audio)
The idea that a small group of individuals can form a “government” representing the best interests of its people has been one of the most disastrous leaps of faith humanity ever took. Arguably, as our societies grew, we had no choice but to form these governments. Although transferring power and authority from the masses to … Continue reading How Government Became a Hiding Place for Capital
The most successful protests in human history were led by angry mobs with simple and concrete demands: freedom, food, equality, the right to vote and so on. The anger, the urgency and the passion drove some demonstrators to even sacrifice their lives for their cause. Whether they were French peasants, African Americans, LGBTQ activists or … Continue reading Can a System Revolt Against Itself? Why Climate Protest May Be Completely Doomed.
Thousands of years ago humans supercharged their destiny by embracing the most disruptive, powerful, and life-changing technologies. Although the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions are traditionally discussed as discrete epochs, they are in fact part of one, big progression: our increasing capability to do things at scale; in the case of these three revolutions, to … Continue reading The Impossible Math of Growth
Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are products. All products are harmful to the planet, however green their credentials might be. Bringing a product to market inflicts immense devastation: the minute a … Continue reading The Great “Solutions” Swindle: Capital, Products, Technology and the Civilisational Lie
This planet may have witnessed five major previous extinction events, but it has never been boiled before this fast, this much, for this long. A combination of ecological destruction, pollution, and the expected culmination of the climate crisis over the coming hundreds of years, constitute Earth's first ever long-range sudden systemic extinction (LRSSE) event. A … Continue reading Long-Range Sudden Systemic Extinction (LRSSE): Why This Time Will Be Different
Evolving Into One 3.5 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single, lonely cell, the ancestor which we share with every other life form on the planet, began to diverge into unique individual species. At first, only a handful of fragile life forms existed, barely distinguishable from each other. Fast forward a … Continue reading The False Narrative of Conflict
Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms We are experiencing an era of unprecedented cognitive dissonance. Despite incredible advances in our capacity to access information and “truth”, we have reached a terrifying all-time high for apathy. The planet’s existential-level catastrophe is systematically edited out of the news, even … Continue reading (Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)
The Thing is getting much more than us out of this human / machine partnership deal. It is getting the most precious commodity: data. It is beginning to own us, and our only planet. We have relinquished control over who buys our data, how much they pay for it, and what they do with it. … Continue reading Dawn of the Algorithmocracy
When a species eliminates all predators, it is a threat to everything. And when its population reaches astronomical numbers, this threat becomes existential. Everything is attacked, including the inanimate world: atmosphere, weather, energy, temperature. The planetary infrastructure is taken down bit by bit, much like a Hollywood set hurriedly dismantled to make space for the … Continue reading Hallucinating Parasites and the War on Physics
