Toxic Biomimicry: How Humans Turned Sunlight into an Industry

Solar power was never a human technology. It was prototyped 3.5 billion years ago by bacteria, upgraded a billion years later by Earth’s first terraforming civilisation of oxygen-producing microbes, and finally adopted by algae, higher plants and forests as the ecosystem’s official engine. Solar capture became the dominant energy currency on Earth because it was … Continue reading Toxic Biomimicry: How Humans Turned Sunlight into an Industry

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

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

Were Humans Ever Intelligent?

How Human Exceptionalism Theories Became All the Rage, and All the Hoax When primitive humans saw that they could defeat every single predator they came across, theories of human supremacy quickly began to proliferate. These supremacy proto-theories empowered humans to further destroy the environment and drive even more species to extinction, because they provided crucial … Continue reading Were Humans Ever Intelligent?

Biology Lessons In Degrowth: The Three Stages of Civilisation

My first job out of graduate school was also my first and only job offer. I jumped at the opportunity of becoming a manager at a fungal microbiology laboratory, specializing on indoor mold: people would bring me samples from their blackened shower wall, their carpet, or their basement, and I would analyze them. I would … Continue reading Biology Lessons In Degrowth: The Three Stages of Civilisation

How Christianity Committed the Ultimate Eco-Blasphemy

Desperate to denounce their mortality, humans always found refuge in some of the most ludicrous supremacy hallucinations. The majority of these fantasies, which soon morphed into organised religions, usually concurred that humans had appeared suddenly, spontaneously, and independently from everything else, and that quite possibly they were not even originally from Earth - yet somehow … Continue reading How Christianity Committed the Ultimate Eco-Blasphemy

Conversations with the Afterlife: The Cursed Garden

When I first started gardening, I made one of the most common beginner errors: mistakenly thinking that gardening was all about taking care of plants. It seemed like a perfectly logical assumption at the time, one which however would prove no less than catastrophic just a few months on, as I watched the plant death … Continue reading Conversations with the Afterlife: The Cursed Garden

How The World Ends

When a society is hijacked by parasites, it is only a matter of time before it breaks down. The oligarchs are running the show and have turned governments from governing entities to machines of wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1%. As Americans move into their cars in their millions, and college graduates move in back … Continue reading How The World Ends

Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest

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

End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit

Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppression. Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a … Continue reading End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit

Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered

Thank you all for your enthusiastic response to the Q&A invitation (on substack). I was expecting a mixed bag of random queries, but a very clear theme of topics emerged, which in a way made my response easier. I present my answers to you below along with any relevant links. Where questions have been grouped … Continue reading Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered