Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation.

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For a species that can calculate the speed of electrons, predict ballistic trajectories within accuracy of a centimetre, and estimate the distance to nearby stars, it is astounding that it stubbornly refuses to solve the simplest of math problems: overpopulation. You won’t hear the George Monbiots, Greenpeaces and Extinction Rebellions ever talk about overpopulation simply … Continue reading Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation.

Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

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This newsletter is my main income. It is free to subscribe, but thank you to everyone who paid to support my work 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 … Continue reading Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

Lifecycle of a Swasticar

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Elon’s Swasticars did not become fascist overnight. They were all along part of a system which breeds fascism and green fairy tales in order to boost profits and keep fattening the oligarchs.  Replacing fossil fuel-powered cars with electric vehicles addresses neither traffic congestion nor carbon emissions.  Electric vehicles enter the market as brand new cars … Continue reading Lifecycle of a Swasticar

A Civilisation Built on Conflict and Supremacy

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The war humanity is waging on all other species has already killed much of the ecosystem.  The superorganism is dying.  Rather than celebrating our shared chemical and genetic lineage, we have been in war with other life forms since the beginning of time.  Our track record is one of genocide and extinction, because this is … Continue reading A Civilisation Built on Conflict and Supremacy

Earthconomics 101: There Is a Killer on the Loose

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The reason Earth’s economy never endures boom-and-bust cycles is that everything in nature is reusable: someone's trash becomes someone else's food, on a planet where it is impossible for an ecosystem to ever go bankrupt. The remarkable feat of 10 million species coexisting in a small planet has only been possible because Earth long ago … Continue reading Earthconomics 101: There Is a Killer on the Loose

All Roads Lead to Self-Destruction

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The problem with civilisation is that it is simply self-destructive: driven by profit and efficiency alone, self-programmed to implode by following a predictable recipe of maximum death/maximum profit economics.  This monstrous progeny of our greed now runs the planet.  It operates not on dreams, laughter, feelings, creativity, love, compassion or any of our best human … Continue reading All Roads Lead to Self-Destruction

Overshoot Deficit Disorder

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When I warned years ago that the climate crisis would be completely forgotten in a few years, I was ignored like some type of attention-seeking “boy cried wolf” conspiracist.  But I meant what I said.  And I still mean it, and events prove me right.  Just look around, even the worst-case scenario didn’t look this … Continue reading Overshoot Deficit Disorder

Final Destination: Extinction

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With a brain no longer fit for a world of scarcity, humans meet the definition of an evolutionary dead-end: a species unable to adapt.  Extinction events occur when environmental conditions change too rapidly for organisms to develop evolutionary adaptations, and this is precisely what is happening to humans.  Runaway climate change is altering Earth too fast … Continue reading Final Destination: Extinction

A Brain from Another Time

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Our naturally dismissive attitude towards impending disasters is woven into the geological history of this planet.  Our brain did not evolve in the midst of catastrophes, but during one of the most climatically stable and abundant times in Earth’s history.  Resources were infinitely plentiful in relation to our consumption, and the climate remained stable enough … Continue reading A Brain from Another Time

Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response

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Our brain has a dangerous affinity for stability: it desperately wants to believe in an unchanging world, even as the world changes.  This make-believe stability evolved as a survival mechanism that was fundamental to our feelings of safety, allowing us to "keep calm and carry on" even as our world went through mayhem.  Our brain … Continue reading Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response