by Bud Nye At a Saturday evening meeting following Guy’s Traditions Cafe presentation in Olympia, Washington, a very bright and thought-full young woman asked with great concern and sadness, “If we are all going to die soon, what is the point?” It strikes me that to ask this question implies also asking, “If we will […]
4. March 2014
Presenting in Olympia, Washington
My tour along the coasts of Oregon and Washington was an unqualified success, and I was able to interact directly with several hundred people. Thanks to the eclectic combination of generous people who provided local transportation, housing, food, venues, interviews, and fiat currency for air fare, and especially to Holly for organizing the trip on […]
1. March 2014
The Last Stage: Acceptance
by Jonathan DeJong I have been a pretty aware collapsitarian most of my life. I’m 51 and can remember watching films about jungles and oceans and all manner of eco-system topics in elementary school wondering why every film we watched had to end with a warning that if we didn’t watch our step humanity was […]
26. February 2014
Thinking About Thinking
by Geoffrey Chia By way of preamble, I begin with an insulting message to Professor McPherson: Dear Guy, I understand some people have called you insane. They are quite right. By the standards of the prevailing establishment you are completely insane. You are as insane as those abolitionists who opposed slavery. You are as insane […]
23. February 2014
Emerging Markets & Peripheral Currency Collapse
Off the keyboard of RE Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Friend us on Facebook Ranting on Near Term Human Extinction Published on the Doomstead Diner on February 15, 2014 Discuss this article at the Economics Table inside the Diner The Big Newz on the economic front over the last couple of weeks has been the […]
20. February 2014
American Heart Month: Heartbreak And The Happy Heart
by Carolyn Baker I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, “It tastes sweet, does it not?” “You’ve caught me,” grief answered, “and you’ve ruined my business, how can I sell sorrow when you know it’s a blessing?” ~Rumi~ By the time some readers see these words, Valentines Day will have become […]
17. February 2014
Attitude During Collapse And Living In The Wild
by Bud Nye, who retired as a psychiatric nurse and from teaching high school physics, chemistry, and biology. He now works at learning and practicing permaculture, natural building, and living in the wild. This idea clashes severely with the narcissistic, human-centered, human supremacist beliefs so rampant in our society today: any humans who survive the […]
14. February 2014
Time to Get Out the Rat Poison
by Geoffrey Chia The Pilgrim’s Progress Continues … Billy Pilgrim, courtesy of the Tralfamadorians, fell through a crack in the fabric of time and started hopping about the temporal landscape. Similarly we too are jumping back and forth between articles written at different times by Geoffrey Chia. This one, “Time to Get Out the Rat […]
11. February 2014
Collapse: What is it? Can we avoid it? When it does occur, how can we best respond to it?
by Geoffrey Chia This essay was written in April 2012 when Geoffrey Chia had given up any hope that systematic transformation of the GIMME establishment was possible and therefore became convinced that collapse was guaranteed (but had not yet come to grips with NTHE). His despair was summarised in these words: “In the past I […]
8. February 2014
The Great March for Climate Action: One Marcher’s Perspective
by John Jorgenson, Climate Marcher from Tucson, Arizona It occurred to me one day; “I’m another lemming”. I was sitting in traffic on my way to, get this, teach about environmental science, and I was the only one in my truck. I looked around at all the other “lemmings”, and sure enough, everyone was solitary, […]
9. March 2014
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