Delusion Is The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source

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When a species eliminates all its predators, it automatically becomes a planetary-level threat. With no ceiling to its population, humanity quickly became an unstoppable infestation that covered the planet. Nothing was spared: biome, landscape, weather, oceans. Today as we witness the aftermath of a millennia-long relentless ecological, environmental and climate holocaust, some still choose to call … Continue reading Delusion Is The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source

Is This Where The Human Evolution Journey Ends?

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Humans would like to believe that they represent the forefront of evolution, but there are other forms of life on Earth, both natural and artificial, that supersede them. The most terrifying life form on the planet right now is our economic system: a logistical network originally developed by humans to serve humans, but which now … Continue reading Is This Where The Human Evolution Journey Ends?

The False Narrative of Conflict

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Evolving Into One 3.8 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single lonely cell, the ancestor we share with everything else that lives, began to diverge into individual species. At first, only a handful of life forms existed, barely distinguishable from each other. Fast forward a few million years and an incredible … Continue reading The False Narrative of Conflict

Unfinished Funeral

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This newsletter is my main income. It is FREE to subscribe to, but made possible by the generosity of paid members. If you’d like my work to continue please consider a paid subscription Today I travel half-way across the country to a family funeral at a village I haven’t visited since childhood.  Endless copper-yellow fields of desiccated … Continue reading Unfinished Funeral

Farming Ourselves to Extinction: The Great Tulip Uprising of 1822

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For years I have marvelled at the sight of flame-red tulips returning faithfully each March right at the edge of the sea cliff my hideous block of flats is built on. Who planted these tulips here? I’ve asked my neighbours and tried to trace the history of the place, but never got anywhere with my … Continue reading Farming Ourselves to Extinction: The Great Tulip Uprising of 1822

Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World

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Although society at large will never find the courage to acknowledge its existential descent, there is a growing unspoken feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with “The World”: it has simply stopped making sense. Today I pose the question: did it ever make sense? Many try to rationalise today’s state of the world as a … Continue reading Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World

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

The Biggest Tariff of Them All

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In my book In the Grip of Necrocapitalism I introduce the concept of conflict as a narrative for civilisation.  Throughout human history we have viewed the world as a series of conflicts rather than mutually beneficial collaborations between humans and other species:  an unprovoked conflict with nature, an unprovoked conflict with other humans, and a … Continue reading The Biggest Tariff of Them All

Invisible Dystopias

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A dystopia is what happens to a civilisation when it has stopped paying attention to reality.  Then again, when were civilisations ever self-aware?   However real the climate crisis may get, escapism into the Mind Prison will always get the better out of humans.  By the time thousands perish daily, there will be too much hunger, … Continue reading Invisible Dystopias

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