A God for All Intentions, and A Civilisation for All the Wrong Reasons

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The Narratives of Intent that Lurk Behind the Existential Problem of Overshoot Life on Earth began as a completely random, chemical accident: Initiate. Nucleate. Replicate. Consume. Deplete. Repeat. Die. It is no less than ironic then that, human civilisations have always claimed that they exist “for a reason”: whether it was religion, race supremacy, ecosystem … Continue reading A God for All Intentions, and A Civilisation for All the Wrong Reasons

All Roads Lead Back to Rome: The Merry-Go-Round of Collapse

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Not more than a couple hundred metres from my apartment the most unexpected, incredible human superstructure unfolds: the perfectly preserved remnants of the ancient superhighway Via Egnatia, constructed by the Roman Republic between 146 and 120 BC. Yes, they already had superhighways back then. The ancient road begins at the very edge of the modern … Continue reading All Roads Lead Back to Rome: The Merry-Go-Round of Collapse

Humans Never Learned to Cooperate

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How Our Greatest Strength Became Our Most Destructive Weapon Humans never learned to genuinely cooperate. They simply became good at forming tight clans, mobilising their members against other organised clans, against the planet, and ultimately, against all members of the clan who refused to “cooperate”. Despite all sights, sounds, and events over the past few … Continue reading Humans Never Learned to Cooperate

Is Genocide Nature’s Population Regulation?

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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 Long Flatline: In a Selfish Society, do “Systems” Actually Exist?

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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?

The Collapse Hierarchy of Needs

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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

BOOK LAUNCH: The Biology of Collapse

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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

The Dogma of the Cancer Cell

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Every oligarch is a tumour growing at the expense of surrounding healthy tissue: the humans and other organisms making up the ecosystem. While normal cells follow a strict path of growth for only a set number of generations, tumour cells never stop multiplying, hoarding resources in the process. This is why capitalism is inherently carcinogenic: … Continue reading The Dogma of the Cancer Cell

Disaster Cannibalism: The Final Stage of Civilisational Collapse

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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

How Humans Became Aliens on Their Own Planet — in 600 Words

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This is a short piece. The longer essays go much deeper. Ecological consciousness is never a mental asset, but a spiritual muscle that humans lost long ago. It is a language that dies unspoken, a houseplant long forgotten, a desperate bird song coughing itself into a cacophonic abyss of incoming traffic. Nature is here, where … Continue reading How Humans Became Aliens on Their Own Planet — in 600 Words