Nature Bats Last

by Lady Die My dear friend, I want you to know that I’m sad, but not feeling hopeless about our impending extinction. As I said previously, recognizing the signs of imminent death, whether it’s terminal cancer or terminal climate change, is a freeing perspective. I’ve chosen to be awake and aware, and am now free […]

by Geoff Pearce A few years ago, there was a television program called, “Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil” that captured my attention. After watching, I thought back to my late teens in the early 70′s when the energy crisis hit and I remember petrol being rationed and huge headlines in the papers about it. […]

by Judith Haran (The author has been a lurker on this blog since attending the Age of Limits conference last May, finally coming out of hiding. Guy encouraged me to share my thoughts about visiting Auschwitz recently. If you don’t have time to read all of this please jump to the last paragraph!) In the […]

Off the keyboard of RE Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Friend us on Facebook Published on the Doomstead Diner on November 17, 2013 Discuss this article at the Environment Table inside the Diner Last weekend the Phillipines got whalloped by yet ANOTHER disaster, a “Super-Typhoon. This is apparently the most powerful cyclonic storm ever, coming […]

With thanks to filmmaker Pauline Schneider, I’ve embedded below a 1-minute trailer and slightly outdated 43-minute film. Please tease your friends with the trailer and then organize a viewing of the longer film. I’ll be available for Q&A via Skype after you watch the film. Please email me with dates and times: guy.r.mcpherson@gmail.com. Trailer for […]

by Carolyn Baker at Speaking Truth to Power Perhaps the last emotion a collapse-aware reader would expect to see in a series on “What Collapse Feels Like” would be joy. Fear, anger, grief, and despair yes, but not joy. Yet I believe we have every reason to expect that the end of life as we […]

by Christy Ceraso Author’s note: All of the women in this essay are highly intelligent, relatively independent thinking, remarkably creative, alternatively-minded women whom I admire. Hence they demonstrate the awful tenacity of the mental traps of time, money, and ownership I will be elucidating with these stories. Names have been changed. A few months ago […]

by Godofredo Aravena Seems to me that all efforts to create awareness about climate change will be useless. Any effort to make the average individual understand the problem we are facing today, will be useless. “Limits to growth” is a good example of failed efforts. The message has been there for 40 years. The required […]

by Mel Strawn The geometry of nature in transit. Whither now? Years of concern and study, discussion, organizing and demonstrating lead me now, October, 2013, to a state of cognitive buzz. The buzz is about our unbelievably complex world-civilization and nature (all that is not of man’s making). There is the daily routine, varied everywhere, […]