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Navigating the Descent, into the Abyss!

I first became interested in the collapse of complex societies when back packing in Southeast Asia in 1980, then when visiting Mayan ruins in Central America in 1982.I was in Berlin one week before the wall came down in 1989,

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Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Arctic Sea Ice, Arthur Keller, Collapse, Extinction Cascades

Life at the End of Empire

A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, ClimateChange, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of theAmerican Lifestyle.That sub-head could almost be about me or perhaps you? But it’s also the position of the author of the

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Posted in Climate Science, Collapse, Energy Industry, Nature Bats Last, Peak Oil, Professor Guy McPherson, Sid Smith, Uncategorized

This is Collapse – What do we do now?

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

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Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Arthur Keller, Climate Change Refugees, Climate Grief, Collapse, Kate Booth, Nature Bats Last, Near Term Human Extinction--NTHE, Professor Guy McPherson, Tristan Sykes, Uncategorized

Everything is Falling Apart: Don’t Look Up, Look Around.

A multi-pronged analysis of the meta-crises we face or should I say, don’t face!WW3 under way in Europe, a regional conflict and 11month old genocide underway in West Asia, the drums of war being beaten in the South China Sea

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Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Aerosol Masking Effect, Arthur Keller, Collapse, Colonialism, Imperialism, Nature Bats Last, Professor Guy McPherson

Global Peak Oil Remains an Existential Threat

“I have reported on the dire impacts of global peak oil at guymcpherson.com for many years. My reports from August 2007 onward indicate the potential for peak oil to terminate industrial civilization. Information I discovered a few years later indicates

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Posted in Aerosol Masking Effect, Collapse, Energy Industry, Marsden Point Oil Refinery, Nature Bats Last, Peak Oil, Professor Guy McPherson

Could the Imminent Collapse of the US Dollar Trigger the Collapse of The Global Economy and the Biosphere?

US Dollar Hegemony is drawing to a long overdue collapse. Could it trigger the collapse of the global economy, trigger the loss of the “Aerosol Masking Effect” and the collapse of the biosphere?“What do you get when you add up

Posted in Aerosol Masking Effect, Collapse, Jared Diamond, US Dollar Hegemony

Dr Sid Smith Rocks the Boat on Nature Bats Last

The August 2020 episode of Nature Bats Last featured an excellent discussion with Dr Sid Smith, the episode is “embedded here”  Dr Smith is former co-chair and current secretary of the Green Party of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in

Posted in Collapse, Nuclear Threats, Professor Guy McPherson, Sid Smith

Kirkpatrick Sale; The Collapse of 2020

The May 2020 episode of Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network featured a discussion with Kirkpatrick Sale about what we believe to be the unfolding collapse of industrial civilisation and his latest book on the subject titled “The

Posted in Aerosol Masking Effect, Collapse, Kirkpatrick Sale, Nature Bats Last, Professor Guy McPherson

This is the End, Beautiful Friends, The End

Do you seriously fucking think we will just ‘bounce back’ from this situation we all find ourselves in? Forget it. It’s delusional to expect we’ll recover from this ‘event’. Paradigm shifts are like tipping points in the climate system. You

Posted in Albert Bartlett, Arthur Keller, Collapse, Nature Bats Last, Professor Guy McPherson

The Corona Virus Domino Enroute to Collapse

Before the Corona virus appeared, the economic system was teetering along like a delusional drunk on a cliff edge. Now a “Black Swan” like no recent other, has been injected into the collapse parthenon. In the video discussion below Professor

Posted in Aerosol Masking Effect, Collapse, Peter Miller, Professor Guy McPherson
Kevin Hester

Kevin Hester is currently living on Rakino Island, a small island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the Rakino Island Nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. The Island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water.  I catch my own water from the roof and generate my electricity from the ample solar radiation on the island.

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