What if globally declining fertility is not merely a socioeconomic phenomenon but one of the ways by which the ecosystem responds to an overpopulated human species? And what if genocide is yet another one of those ways? Last week I had the distinct honour of being asked to contribute my own commentary to a soon-to-be-published … Continue reading Is Genocide Nature’s Population Regulation?
The world keeps going about its daily business like a zombie pretending it hasn’t burned out yet. But as it whispers to itself through the flames “this is fine”, the corrosive fumes of an industrial civilisation undergoing autophagy become potent hallucinogens. “This is fine” soon becomes “this is normal”. Whoever thought, one could get so tripped out on … Continue reading The Long Flatline: In a Selfish Society, do “Systems” Actually Exist?
When back in July the Washington Monument’s Reflective Pool turned green right before national Independence Day celebrations, the phenomenon attracted little media attention – and rightly so, in the context of the wars, heat domes, dictatorship shenanigans and genocides that have now become a regular occurrence in late-stage industrial civilisation (early-stage post-Anthropocene). It was only … Continue reading From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea of Stupidity
Whenever there is a collapse, society has two choices: in the first scenario, powerful individuals grab as big a slice as they can from a rapidly diminishing pie and make a run for it in their golden parachutes. In the second scenario, societies come together and try to distribute the pie as calmly, fairly, and … Continue reading The Collapse Hierarchy of Needs
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
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
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
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
When prey is scarce, Atlantic cod use younger members of their species as their protein source. When ponds dry up, frogs become carnivorous and devour their siblings. And when human nations compete for land and resources on an overpopulated planet, they begin exterminations. As the climate crisis and population overshoot increase competition between nations, between natives and … Continue reading Disaster Cannibalism: The Final Stage of Civilisational Collapse
