We have exceeded all of our planetary boundaries and we have psychopaths at the helm of our sinking ship, armed to the teeth. They will fight to the bitter end. Nowhere on the planet do I see a political party planning for the collapse of society and our biosphere. We go into collapse leader-less, with thousands of nuclear weapons on a hair trigger. The human movie can only end badly, very badly and very soon and we take the rest of the complex life-forms with us down the cul de sac of extinction. More on ‘The Collapse of Industrial Civilisation‘, here.
Dahr Jamail and Guy McPherson discuss this same subject here: ‘Mass Extinction: It’s the End of the World as We Know It‘: “Today’s current scientific and observable evidence strongly suggests we are in the midst of the same process – only this time it is anthropogenic, and happening exponentially faster than even the Permian mass extinction did.” Continues at link.
Industrial civilisation is a heat machine that is killing the living planet and cowboy capitalism is at the helm of our sinking ship.
Karl Marx was vilified for his criticisms of capitalism’s infinite growth paradigm where in reality Infinite growth on a finite planet was always unsustainable and now is knocking at the door.
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Also very good: ‘The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism and the living planet dying‘: “It can be very confusing to know that you won’t find a decent job, pay off student loans or put in a down payment on a house in the next few years — even though you may have graduated from a top-tier university or secured glowing references from all those unpaid internships that got you to where you are today.
“Even if you are lucky enough to have all of this going for you, you’ll still be one among hundreds of applicants for every job you apply for. And you’ll still watch as the world becomes more unequal, with fewer paid opportunities to do what you feel called to do in your work or for your life path.
“What’s more, you won’t find much help from your friends because most (if not all) of them are going through the same thing. This is a painful and difficult time that is impacting all of us at once.
“There will be people who tell you it’s your fault. That you aren’t trying hard enough….” .
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
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Nobody’s coming to save us!
‘Nobody’s coming to save us’ – How capitalism became a ‘vulture’ | RNZ News
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And this is one horrible Canadian asshole that will fight to the bitter end to ‘influence’ others to think of climate/environmental activism as a crank ‘religion’ just to fatten his own bank account.
Can’t eat money, dude…
Jordan Peterson’s Climate Culture War
The Canadian influencer and his Project 2025 allies in the U.S. want people to see climate action as a ‘pseudo-religion.’
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jordan-petersons-climate-culture-war/
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Nation’s First Commercial Carbon Sequestration Plant Is Leaking
An Illinois community has learned of a second leak in Archer Daniels Midland’s sequestration well beneath Lake Decatur, their primary source of drinking water.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nations-first-commercial-carbon-sequestration-plant-is-leaking/
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Commercial = Capitalism. Which means ‘for profit.’ What’s wrong with that picture?
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Capitalism is “Grinding the living planet into dust! “Quoting Guy McPherson!
https://theanalysis.news/how-capitalism-pillages-the-planet-and-creates-chaos-patrick-bond-pt-1-2/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIkk2ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW_XweRa8HnToyI0Gb6SG5q7p-ZuJjdMRc6PnnDeU767QIQH_LL8eD4v8w_aem_hp4b9EkO61gWOTBj8Xyfcg
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The pain is barely starting, but with Trumpenfuhrer and the Dog-E Musk the viciously stupid South African Apartheid Fascist cutting an ever-widening path through the US government, I’m sure the pain is going to get much much worse.
No funding for any environmental issue of any kind, nor will a single dime be spent on anything to do with climate destabilization since it doesn’t exist, and don’t the new owners seem like the most extreme Corporate Capitalists since the Gilded Age since they want to drill drill drill and yet under Biden the US became the #1 fossil fuel producer in the world?
Big sigh. I’ve had one real cold snap this winter, later than last winter’s cold snap in the middle of January since it was about ten days ago. Down to single digit sub-zero F’ unlike last year’s -22’F, but it started raining three days later while this year it actually produced snow. I have about a whole 100mm still but never saw more than maybe 150mm. It only snowed at the start of Jan and then at the end; in the middle was NOTHING.
Sheesh, this isn’t normal but then what is, eh Kevin?
Nice Jazz theme music on the link below the interview link by the way!
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Here’s one on what is affecting US climate policy:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-trumps-mass-firing-of-government-watchdogs-affects-climate-policy/
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Gutting the Weather Watchers: When Tyrants Rewrite the Forecast
This is no accident. It’s a coordinated attack on science, safety, and the truth—just in time for hurricane season…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/gutting-the-weather-watchers-when-c03?publication_id=
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The true face of Capitalism is embodied in Trump and Musk.
Wait until a Cat 5 (or 6) hurricane roars in that, because NOAA and NWS has been eviscerated, it’s not going to be caught in time. Especially if it’s one like recent storms that suddenly just exponentially explodes in strength just before landfall. I don’t know if you’ve been seeing this happen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it sure the hell has been happening up here!
Irony is not something the MAGA gets but they certainly are going to experience it if Trump continues to follow through with his gutting of science and scientists. All to cover up that Climate Collapse is real and not a hoax and a ‘lib-tard’ scam made-up for scientists get rich on grants.
What is it going to take? A million bodies floating in the flooded remains of Houston Texas because there wasn’t anybody left to warn them to get out? Or New Orleans completely submerged? Or drone footage of the remains of Miami after a Cat 6 (that classification number is still being decided on) roars in with 40 feet of surge and 200 mile an hour winds?
Or will they just blame the ‘lib-tards’ for the disaster somehow while claiming the ‘woke radical left’ shouldn’t have pissed off god because they tried to get rid of Christmas?
The stupidity is incredibly thick up here, dude. And these people are extremely violent (thereby proving they don’t follow Jesus the hippie pacifist). And then there is the Fascist wealthy who want to own everything…
This is going to be…an interesting hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere, eh?
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Not ‘just’ capitalism, it’s killing the living planet as well.
(2) Capitalism is Dead – by Geoffrey Deihl
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And Musk sure seems to be not successfully in getting Capitalism onto Mars anytime soon. Sure wouldn’t want to be downwind of that launch site because ‘experiencing a major anomaly’ is going to fill the air downwind with…very toxic Capitalist farts?
But no worries I guess since they reported there were NO HAZARDS to nearby residents. Ahahahaha and you believe that shit? Stupid Texans!
SpaceX Starship Explodes On Launch Pad
https://weather.com/science/space/video/spacex-starship-rocket-explodes-in-texas-testing
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Sure did make itself known to nearby residents I expect….
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The Hill covering the unfolding collapse but understating its rapidity, like the gate keepers they are.
The rate of change unfolding is much faster than The Hill would like to admit.
The article compromises itself by saying we must give the youth ‘Hope’, rather than truth.
Money is an addiction — and we need an intervention
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The under-educated Trump supporters have NO IDEA what they voted for.
States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up
Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders are looking for clues about the money — and the future of FEMA itself.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-grants-trump-emergencies
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WPC Sues WA Dept. of Ecology for Hiding CO2 Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFsIMU1ICo
from the comments section. Explains exactly who these people are perfectly:
>More CO2 = more trees and plants. Why not just plant more trees and wildflower fields?’
>City of Seattle stopped mowing the park near me. Let it go wild with 2 foot tall dry grass and weeds. But instead of mowing, they put in small, low budget sign which explai: this park is now a “pollinator corridor”. To promote butterfly and othe insect habitat!
>The Earth has greened 20% since the year 2000. This makes the Communists extra mad.
>Co2 is required by this planet to sustain life as we know it!!!
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And from Counterpunch.org:
This fits right in here!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/02/are-the-capitalists-destroying-capitalism/
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Another extremely hot day in these mountains…
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George sums up the dismal science of economics brilliantly.
The Pseudoscience of Economics
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“We are trying to solve the disasters of capitalism with more capitalism. This has never worked, and it never will.”
A Brief History Of The Human Brain: How We Got It All Wrong
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George knocks Capitalism out of the park for a home run!
(5) YOLO Economics: The Macabre Business Continuity Plans of Necrocapitalism
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