7 hours agoToday’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVIIA quick morning contemplation based upon an article posted to the Peak Oil Facebook Group I participate in. Almost everywhere the pursuit of the infinite growth chalice (primarily by the ruling elite) and/or population growth along with a disregard for/ignorance of biophysical limits has put a community/region/nation into ecological overshoot…Ecological Overshoot3 min read
3 days agoToday’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVIThis contemplation is my concluding post regarding several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In the initial post, I briefly summarised four psychological mechanisms I’ve been reflecting upon in the context of ecological overshoot and in particular…Overshoot12 min read
Jun 22Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVA very short contemplation that deviates from the ‘series’ I’ve been writing on several psychological mechanisms that impact our cognitions regarding overshoot and collapse. This is a brief comment (with a slight edit) on an article by The Honest Sorcerer whose writing I discovered a few months ago and have…Economic Collapse3 min read
Jun 18Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIVThis contemplation is the fifth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, I briefly summarised four psychological mechanisms I’ve been reflecting upon in the context of ecological overshoot and…Justification Hypothesis6 min read
Jun 11Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIIIThis contemplation is the fourth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, I briefly summarised four psychological mechanisms I’ve been reflecting upon in the context of ecological overshoot and…Cognitive Dissonance7 min read
Jun 7Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIIThis contemplation is the third part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, I briefly summarised four psychological mechanisms I’ve been reflecting upon in the context of ecological overshoot and…Groupthink10 min read
May 27Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIThis contemplation is the second part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. You can find Part One here. In Part One, I briefly summarised four psychological mechanisms I’ve been reflecting upon in…Authority11 min read
May 19Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LKeeping in mind that we humans are storytelling primates with extraordinary cognitive abilities, I’ve been reflecting upon a few of the psychological phenomena that are key to how we form beliefs, especially as they pertain to ecological overshoot and its concomitant societal ‘collapse’. The specific mechanisms I have been thinking…Psychology8 min read
May 5Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLIXToday’s Contemplation has been prompted by a request to engage someone in ‘an academic lesson’ regarding the maladaptation of pursuing complex technologies in an attempt to ‘solve’ our ‘problem’ of climate change. As Frederick Nietzsche has been credited with arguing: “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they…Ecological Overshoot6 min read
Apr 19Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIIITo be or not to be, that is the question… Prince Hamlet’s well-known soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is apropos to a question I have been pondering: should we shut down immediately the world’s fossil fuel industries, as a seemingly increasing number of individuals and groups are advocating, or…Ecological Overshoot8 min read