Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest

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Civilisations and ecosystems are virtually indistinguishable from each other at times of existential stress: the same laws of scarcity and competition which decimate an ecosystem’s food chain are behind the collapse of a human currency chain. In any interconnected system, whether this is a human society or an ecosystem, the weight of collapse bears down … Continue reading Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest

Patience

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Today I discovered that one of my Cyclamen coum plants in the upper woodland garden had produced offspring: tiny one-leaf seedlings fighting for space and light under the canopy of a 45 year-old evergreen Jasminum mesnyi that complements their intense fuchsia colour with its narcissus-yellow blooms. Both plants bloom in the middle of February, a most drab … Continue reading Patience

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

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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 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

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

The Biggest, Oldest Economy In The World Is Burning

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With any economy, the faster you grow and expand, the sooner you die, just like an obesity patient.  There is, however, one economy in the world who has got it right.  It neither grows nor dies, and actually manages to stay the same, or at least it did, until recently.  It is the oldest economy … Continue reading The Biggest, Oldest Economy In The World Is Burning

The Myth of The Predator

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Although chaotic on the surface, the ecosystem is incredibly simple in its core operating principles.  But when studying ecosystems and climate systems, we always overcomplicate things.  We focus only on the chaos and conflict between species and between weather elements, forgetting about the principle of balance that supersedes them.  This is because we choose to … Continue reading The Myth of The Predator

The Loneliness of a Dying Parasite

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While humans achieved impressive technological accomplishments inside their busy cities, they had failed to equally develop all parts of themselves.  If anything, over centuries they devolved into a species with a lost identity, meaning or purpose, core elements of the psyche that were neglected and sidelined by the whiplash of technological “progress”.  These huge widening … Continue reading The Loneliness of a Dying Parasite

Generations of Ecological Estrangement

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As the psychonomy expanded, the planet suffered the tragic consequences of humans effectively domesticating themselves within their own prison, while at the same time outsourcing their civilisation to The Thing: an economic management authority hungry for sales data and tasked with breeding generation after generation of increasingly estranged, brainwashed and unhealthy human cattle. Most of … Continue reading Generations of Ecological Estrangement

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

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For a species that can calculate derivatives, project ballistic trajectories, and estimate sales volumes, it is astounding that humans stubbornly refuse to even acknowledge the negative effects of what is by far their most destructive, as well as most obvious, impact on the planet: overpopulation. You won’t hear the Roger Hallams, the George Monbiots, Greenpeaces … Continue reading Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation and Overshoot