Below is an absolutely brilliant video delving into the unfolding collapse, from some courageous professors and researchers from the Antipodes and Germany, who like me, are attempting to face our dystopian future and are trying to engineer as soft a landing as possible!
We’re not going to magically prevent the unfolding collapse of industrial civilisation and the extinction cascades it will trigger but we can prepare mentally and guide our youth accordingly. Plan for the world that’s coming, not some fantasy mumbo-jumbo.
The resounding message, is to make the most of whatever peaceful moments we have and if at all possible, form a tribe and pay forward!
There has never been a more important time in history to be a member of a tribe!
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Just Collapse advocates for a Just Collapse and Planned Collapse to avert the worst outcomes that will follow an otherwise unplanned, reactive collapse.
Just Collapse recognises the impossibility of a globally planned collapse, or degrowth, and instead advocates for localised social and ecological justice.
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I have conducted dozens of “Collapse” and extinction interviews on this blog. I’ll drop a few videos below and a few more via hyperlinks after, for anyone who wants too genuinely face our predicament!
The blog post and accompanying hyperlinked show notes, contemporaneous with the above video is embedded following.
“Post Doom” discussion featuring Michael Dowd and Kevin Hester. Navigating the Perfect Storm
Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario
The excellent video analysis above brought my and Professor Guy McPherson’s attention to Arthur’s work.
We interviewed Arthur on Nature Bats Last: Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario
I highly recommend Michael Dowd’s analysis of William Catton’s Overshoot
On the March 2020 episode of Nature Bats Last Kevin and Guy were joined by George Tsakraklides. Our discussion included the collapse of industrial civilization and George’s recently published book “Disposable Earth: How and why we gave the earth an expiration date”.
Our interview is embedded following: “Collapse Means Collapse”
Any blog post on collapse has to include the seminal work of Joseph Tainter: The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies. Chris Hedges & Joseph Tainter.
“Across Britain, a quiet transformation is happening. It’s not the stereotype of survivalist preppers hoarding beans in bunkers. It’s middle-class professionals – scientists, sustainability experts, teachers, doctors, policy analysts and management consultants who have seen the data and come to a stark conclusion: the systems we rely on for survival are far more fragile than they appear, are deeply flawed and contain within them dynamics that keep us locked in to a dangerous trajectory.”
The above quote from this great article from Rob Harrison-Plastow
Why Well-Off Brits Who Think Collapse Is Coming Still Stay Silent
Then the “Piece de resistance” from the late great Michael C Ruppert:
In honour of the Muslim world who are being bombed back into the dark ages by European barbarians As-salamu alaykum.
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Kevin Hester 
Gail’s latest analysis dove tails here.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/03/31/advanced-economies-are-being-pushed-toward-financial-collapse/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJYI4BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWdXvIGScvULXZ5Ucih_TretpgRp5Hqmc6HIxs2fpTUX5QYw2gJVU0pkzA_aem_gT-3nE9l_-8qvMy7V_t9oA
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“This is Collapse–What do we do now?” is a good question.
After pondering the issue for several years, finally this year I am planning a “Paleo Challenge”. That is, later this year, after all wild fruits and nuts are ripe, and all garden produce is being harvested, I will designate one day (probably in October or November) in which every single bite/bit of food or drink must be something I either grew or foraged. No exceptions. It is just a test.
The biggest difficulty will be going without eggs or dairy, but a challenge is a challenge. We pampered and spoiled humans like to think we are so capable, so “this” and so “that”, but what is the reality?
Can a 21st Century person grow or forage everything they need for survival? Can a 21st Century person even grow or forage enough food for even one day?
If we haven’t self-destructed by this autumn, then I will share the experience with anyone and everyone, even those not interested! LOL
Thanks, Kevin for this article as well as videos contained therein and thanks for helping us muddle through collapse.
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And the Orange Menace signed an order to cut down 280 million acres of Federal forest and National Parks…and fired a bunch of the Forest Service people at the same time. While cancelling the power of the EPA, firing 800 NOAA scientists, decimating the National Weather Service, and trying to close FEMA.
Oh, and he’s now ordered coal mining and coal-fired power plants to increase. Have to make electricity for those AI buildings…
Most people just can’t make this kind of shit up. They aren’t twisted enough to imagine something so insipidly stupid.
Did Trump Really Order a Massive Forest Cutdown?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EONYyJe7gW8
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Is there a new planet I can move to available? This one isn’t going to work much longer!
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I don’t think the islands in the Caribbean are going to be habitable much longer. Not with the populations they are trying to support. Maybe not even as independent countries that can actually afford a government. Where is the population going to go when countries continue to close borders to migrating refugees?
Or the entire Gulf of Mexico basin for that matter. The overcrowded ones that are still ‘annexed’ by the colonial powers, too, are being systematically destroyed year after year just like the independent ones, and even they aren’t getting the rebuilding assets needed any more than the poorer independent countries whose only path is to NEVER be able to get out of debt to the wealthy bankers etc.
I know there are places all over the world in exactly the same trap, on all continents. Hell, the US hasn’t still recovered fully from the 2005 New Orleans hit, and certainly not from the Hurricane Helene where they are still finding bodies under the flood mud and debris in and alongside the rivers.
No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming
https://theconversation.com/no-time-to-recover-hurricane-melissa-and-the-caribbeans-compounding-disaster-trap-as-the-storms-keep-coming-268641
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And we know all this is only going to get worse. Breakdown in stages, slipping farther down the rungs towards…ugly.
Ain’t that a hell of a thing to contemplate on New Year’s Day as it snows out my window for the 4th time this winter?
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