We live in a collapsing civilisation stepping into a cliff with its eyes closed. Fascist hate-stirrers promise to magically extinguish inflation while ignoring what is actually causing it: a climate crisis with a lethal magic trick of its own: not only will food become expensive beyond belief. It will vanish, as the audience suddenly realise … Continue reading It Is Time We Educate Children About The Coming Collapse
Germany, the world’s third largest economy, is spearheading the collapse of global industrial civilisation as its GDP is set to continue its contraction into next year with no end in sight. This comes as no surprise given that Germany is the poster child for the most resource-intensive and old-fashioned industrial production model in operation: a … Continue reading The Collapse Report: Food Is Set to Become the New Automobile in a Collapsing Industrial Civilisation
The silence was horrifying as we walked amongst huge ancient rows of beech trees bathed in autumnal sunlight. Everything was so quiet that it felt almost unreal, like we had been dropped inside a postcard frozen in time and given permission to walk about for a bit before it all came back to life. The … Continue reading The Extinction Report: Journey To a Disappearing Ecosystem
The very first thing which happens to a garden when it becomes abandoned is the sudden death of the most greedy, hybridized and mispositioned exotic ornamental plants. Having been bred to only survive in industrial greenhouses under the control of precise environmental management systems, these specimens wither away within days or weeks. Their culling is … Continue reading Rewilded: Free-Range Humans in the Post-Anthropocene
In its futile quest for the ultimate delusion of immortality, humanity always sought to convince itself of the most vivid supremacy fantasy: that humans are not from Earth. The industrial revolution, the look and feel of our modern cities, our cars, our houses, were all shaped to subconsciously convince us that we are not even … Continue reading The Supremacy Sci-Fi of Human Civilisation: From Caves to Spaceships and Back to Caves
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.
One tiny piece of DNA, surrounded by a layer of proteins, floating in a microscopic droplet of water from someone's sneeze. That’s all it is, that’s all it takes, to change the course of an entire civilization. A molecule which isn't even visible on a conventional microscope, yet powerful enough to change the course of … Continue reading Transformation Through Collapse: How Viruses Have Shaped Our Civilisations
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
It is ironic but not at all surprising that, for a civilisation claiming to have taken care of its most basic needs a very long time ago, its demise will come down to the one, most basic need common to all organisms: food. Civilisations may survive without technology or organised society, but they cannot … Continue reading Food, Life and Sanity: the Triple Disappearing Act
Every ecosystem takes steps to curb species that over-proliferate. Those with long arms who continuously eat more than their fair share are always brought to justice and pay a hefty population price. As the population of the species explodes, alarms go off. The ecosystem senses a bottleneck in the food chain, an expanding bulge, like … Continue reading The Curse of the Self-Destructive Predator
George Tsakraklides 