Climate Change
Daily "Once in a Century" Floods
Mother Nature's revenge: Over the last month alone, all corners of the world were hit by major floods. While this is anecdotal, does it not feel like we're witnessing a new natural disaster each day?
Sarah Connor
I've seen the future. And it's ugly.
hyperinflation
How to Collapse: Hyperinflationary Depression
How crop failure leading to a 20% caloric deficit might cause a financial crisis.
Denial
0.04%: Small Does Not = Immaterial
Think CO2 Concentration at 0.04% is Low and Therefore Doesn't Impact Us?
EROEI
EROEI and Civilization's Forced Decline
EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) is possibly the most important ratio to modern human existence. This measure is foundational to our civilization, yet understood by few.
food
What Farmers Say About Climate Change
This is probably the most honest assessment of the current state of farming and our future food supply.
Collapse and Capitalism
You've probably heard this before. A friend recently suggested to me that capitalism is the "cure" for climate change and other systemic risks to the biosphere. His argument was that the profit motive will incentivize businesses and individuals to innovate our way out of this mess.
Civilization
I'm Inconsequential. You're Inconsequential. And That's OK.
This is all fleeting. So stop wasting your life.
Climate Change
Why Media Ignores the Coming Disaster
Every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a scientist
Collapse
The Poly-Crisis
I'm afraid the best we can hope for now is to delay the inevitable and mitigate the consequences.
society
Defeated
Let's collectively wind down what we all know is a waste of our lives. After all, 10 years of real living beats 30 years of pointless monotony.
Collapse
Energy Crisis 101
Documentaries explaining peak oil production and humanity's energy crisis.
nuclear war
Nukes in Space
If used offensively, nukes in space could immediately send civilization back one hundred years. No warning. No preparation. Nothing.
Collapse
I Have a Confession to Make
Why I started Collapse 2050
Climate Change
Economists Ignoring Coming 70%+ Crash
Leaders don't understand how global warming will devastate economy, explaining failure to mitigate.
Civilization
How to Collapse: Despair in Terminal Decline
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl
Civilization
Prepping for WW3: Governments Will Send You to War
War is approaching. Millions - or even billions - of lives are at stake. And you will be required to fight.