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

Replacement Economics: The Scam That Saved Capitalism

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Time is never kind to someone who can only pretend to save themselves. As humans continue to throw smoke and mirrors at the fireball of overshoot, all they can expect back is extinction. If there was ever a chance of keeping this planet habitable it wouldn't be through renewables, but through tackling the worst type … Continue reading Replacement Economics: The Scam That Saved Capitalism

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

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

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For a species that can calculate the speed of electrons, predict ballistic trajectories within accuracy of a centimetre, and estimate the distance to nearby stars, it is astounding that it stubbornly refuses to solve the simplest of math problems: overpopulation. You won’t hear the George Monbiots, Greenpeaces and Extinction Rebellions ever talk about overpopulation simply … Continue reading Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation.

Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

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This newsletter is my main income. It is free to subscribe, but thank you to everyone who paid to support my work Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are products.  All products … Continue reading Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

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

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

Frankenfoods of The Anthropocene

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The evolution of our food production over time deserves a prominent place in the long list of technologies whose impact ranged from bad to worse to terrifying. Today's obesity epidemic is the direct result of the incredible changes which took place in our food industry over the course of just a few decades.  Just as … Continue reading Frankenfoods of The Anthropocene

Beyond Growth: Journey to Gaia 1

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All growth leads to overshoot and the collapse of civilisations.  Any species overgrowing all others eventually suffers termination-level resource deficits both from the ecosystem (prey, raw materials) and the physical environment (habitable space, water, etc).  Humans crossed their survivability threshold thousands of years ago and have been sustained by completely artificial means ever since: intensive … Continue reading Beyond Growth: Journey to Gaia 1

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