For the twentieth century, The Limits to Growth book changed the world in the same way On The Origin Of Species did in the nineteenth. | Continue reading
Civilization largely has used fossil fuels to destroy robust natural ecosystems and to replace them with artificial and fragile ones. | Continue reading
But there really is no solution to our energy crisis, if by “solution” we mean a return to how energy markets have functioned... | Continue reading
Collapse of civilisation may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points that regulate the planet have been activated. | Continue reading
But these fake-meat products are engineered, specifically, to fool our senses into thinking they’re whole foods—and then marketed to reflect the trick | Continue reading
It’s gob-smacking to think that such a planning process actually could have started 70 years ago, and that it has still barely begun. | Continue reading
But grief isn't something to be fixed, because it's not dysfunctional. It's a healthy and necessary process we have to undergo in order to heal. | Continue reading
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave … | Continue reading
As societies transition away from high net energy resources, a number of researchers have argued that we might be approaching the net energy cliff... | Continue reading
A new paper by a long-time sustainability academic and consultant says that minor tweaks in our current system won't help us. We are likely headed for societal collapse and need a radical new way of thinking about the future. The first necessary casualty is hope--hope that we can … | Continue reading
The point of my piece was that the story of global poverty is more complex than you and Gates have been willing to acknowledge, | Continue reading
Earlier this week, I was trying to think of ways to talk about the gap between notions about the future we’ve all absorbed from the last three hundred years of fossil-fueled progress, on the one hand, and the ways of thinking about what’s ahead that might actually help us make se … | Continue reading
Personally, I’m proud to be a progressive, and along with many others, to devote my energy to achieve progress for this and future generations. And if and when we do so, it won’t be thanks to Steven Pinker and his specious arguments. | Continue reading