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The Collapse Party Fulfills Its Own Name

I founded the Collapse Party one year ago after coming to the hard realization that industrial civilization is unsustainable and that – barring revolutionary socio-political (e.g. “ecotechnic dictatorship“) or technological (e.g. geoengineering) transformation – it’s catastrophic unraveling by the middle … Continue reading

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Russia Burning: not Apocalypse, but its Prelude

This post is a meta-commentary on media coverage of Russia’s drought and wildfires. Now make no mistake, I admire the yeoman work of some journalists in covering Russia burning: no doubt a few will even make their way into the … Continue reading

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Climate Change and Pollution Overload

This is yet another reference post like Resource Depletion and Peak Oil and Emerging Technologies on futurism, this time dealing with the consequences of climate change. Thoughts its impacts are not be as noticeable as technological change (which is now … Continue reading

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Sublime News #4

1. As you may have noticed, I’ve radically simplified the website. I regret having to remove the Twitter integration and coolest navigation features. Nonetheless, it was unavoidable. The website loaded far too slowly most of the time, and when I … Continue reading

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Review of “Limits to Growth” (Meadows et al.)

If I could recommend just one book to someone with a business-as-usual outlook, someone who believes human ingenuity and free markets will always bail us out of any resource scarcity or environmental problem, it would be Limits to Growth: The 30-Year … Continue reading

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