Meditative Degrowth: Sometimes The Smartest Act of Defiance Is To Stay Still

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

125 million years ago an exceptionally long, baking hot summer began to sweep through the Celestial Mountain in the Tien Shan alpine range spanning modern-day Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. The scorching conditions on the desiccated slopes of the mountain left little room for survival for the great majority of organisms, and the freezing … Continue reading Meditative Degrowth: Sometimes The Smartest Act of Defiance Is To Stay Still

The Argument for Assisted Collapse

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

As ancient as it is, and however many centuries it may have lasted, this unsustainable economic system was always destined to destroy itself.  The narratives of our Civilisational Lie may have normalised unsustainable growth and unsustainable population, but what we, humans, consider “normal” is an impossible fantasy of our imagination.  The laws of physics disagree … Continue reading The Argument for Assisted Collapse

Anthropocene University – Spring Registration for Classes Now Open

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

Educational institutions the world over are keeping up pretences, trying to lure students with the false promise of a career which won’t exist on a collapsing planet.  Academia after all, is no different than Business as Usual.  Since education became a business, universities are only interested in taking your cash.  Students graduate with a mountain … Continue reading Anthropocene University – Spring Registration for Classes Now Open

Degrowth: The Wisdom of Letting Go

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

A lesson which humans have yet to learn from nature is to let go of self-destructive desires.  Each autumn across the north and south hemispheres, deciduous trees let go of trillions of leaves.  In doing so, they ensure their survival for another year.  Had they attempted to hold on to those leaves, the trees would … Continue reading Degrowth: The Wisdom of Letting Go

Rewilded: Free-Range Humans in the Post-Anthropocene

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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