The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be Today’s Contemplation is my brief comment on an article posted on Facebook by Tristan Sykes of Just Collapse. The article in question (short and concise) is an update of the World3 model used in creating the various scenarios in the 1972 The…

Societal ‘Collapse: The Past is Prologue Today’s Contemplation has been once again prompted by the latest musings of The Honest Sorcerer. I believe their posts motivate me more than most others I read because we very often focus upon the same subject matter and appear, for the most part, to…

Today’s Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article that looks at the financial nature of our modern world. Rackets: Keeping the Curtains on Reality Drawn Excellent summation of our predicament and how reality is being ‘hidden’ by the story-telling nature of our species — especially the stories…

Growth and Denial: A Bad Combination Today’s Contemplation is a glimpse into some conversation between myself and another around growth, denial, and differences in what can/should be advocated for. Post by GW: Just saw the sign coming in to town which reads “Country close to the city” it should read “Condos…

Keep Calm and Carry On Today’s Contemplation is my comment on a recent post by Alan Urban that speaks to his experiences attempting to share his learnings on ‘collapse’. For those that have read it, you can likely recognise similar reactions from others; I certainly did. After years of experiencing…

Reality is an Inconvenience to Beliefs Today’s brief Contemplation was prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article that looks at the latest energy ‘breakthrough’ (seems there is one every other week) and how it’s going to save modern civilisation, our species, and the planet. In this globalised world where virtually…

A Self-Sufficient Community — Better Than Precious Metals or Fiat/Digital Currencies Today I’m sharing a conversation with others via the Comments section for a post on the website Zerohedge — as well as a preamble to the conversation to set the context for my part in the conversation. The article…

Solace Will Not Be Found Within Our Sociopolitical Systems — Biogeophysical Limitations Cannot Be Overcome By Way Of Policy The following Contemplation is composed of some thoughts I had as I read through and reflected upon an article that was posted on the website Zerohedge. It argues that the policies…

Ruling Elite Rackets Everywhere… My very brief comment on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article: Throw on top of our energy predicament the overarching predicament of ecological overshoot and the situation is even more explosive. And I can’t help but think that since everything in our world has become a racket…