by Dean Walker | Feb 14, 2019 | Articles, Collapse of Systems
Dahr Jamail. (Truthout) My friend Mark Oats, a farmer in Australia, recently sent this note to me: Last night I looked through the Bureau of Meteorology App at the monthly rainfall figures for January, and temperatures. The region around Byron Lismore has had 1.6...
by Dean Walker | Feb 12, 2019 | Articles, Collapse of Systems
(Read this in Humans Media) The sickness of colonial societies. It has been defined by some as “a disease of civilization” and while I understand that viewing point, I would say it is a disease that is incubated in the colonized civilizations. The disease...
by Dean Walker | Feb 12, 2019 | Articles, Collapse of Systems, Species Extinction
(Read this in the Guardian) Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review Why are insects in decline, and can we do anything about it? Damian CarringtonEnvironment editor @dpcarrington Sun 10 Feb 2019...
by Dean Walker | Feb 3, 2019 | Articles, Collapse of Systems, Programs, Sober Data
This video is a part of the core curriculum for our online support materials program, Deep Academy. Geologic and human time scales How can We Salvage Our Global Civilization Professor Tadeusz Patzek Director of the Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center...
by Dean Walker | Jan 30, 2019 | Articles, Collapse of Systems, Podcasts, Poetry of Predicament Podcast
(edited version. dw) My thanks to Patrick Farnsworth and his podcast, Last Born in the Wilderness, for this conversation about the current and imminent collapse of human and Earth systems – and how we might use this moment as an opportunity to intentionally...
by Dean Walker | Jan 26, 2019 | Articles, Collapse of Systems
(Read Martenson’s essay at Peak Prosperity website) Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that they’ll recognize the danger signs in time. As if it will be completely...