Guy McPherson's blog

The embedded video is timely more than year after it was created. It is presented without further commentary because a word to the wise is unnecessary and a word to the dullard goes unheeded.

I promised to provide additional video based on my visit to Wisconsin and Michigan last month as they became available. With this post, I reluctantly submit to my earlier promise. This video clip was shot with a handheld camera in a barn with poor lighting. Adding to the misery: It starts a few minutes into [...]

by Jinger Dixon, global trends analyst and contributor at Trends Research Reloaded I was recently asked what I thought the “one demand” should be for the OWS protest. That’s a tough question. I’ve seen many lists of the things people are suggesting. Most seem well intended. However, no one demand alone even begins to scratch [...]

by John Rember, who blogs at MFA in a Box 1. In the 1951 short story, “The Marching Morons,” science-fiction writer C.M. Kornbluth postulates a far future where smart people have been outbred by stupid ones. As a result the average IQ is 45. Five billion stupid folks sit around, watch TV, and go to [...]

by Mike Sliwa, who blogs at Chasing a Different Carrot with his wife Karen We spent three months at the mud hut and lived to tell about it. My wife Karen and I were fortunate enough to spend most of our summer with Guy on his doomstead and came away with an appreciation for how [...]

Timothy Scott Bennett’s novel, All of the Above, was published in August 2011. If you’ve been paying attention, you recognize the author’s name: Bennett and his partner, Sally Erickson, put out the superb documentary film, What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire. I reviewed the film briefly about four years ago. [...]

My recent foray to Wisconsin and Michigan had me staying five different homes, hence sleeping in five different beds and eating at many different tables. It was quite an exciting adventure, spent with wide-awake people, and I hope to repeat the experience as many times as the industrial economy allows. I’ve embedded one of the [...]

by Anonymous On the street yesterday in my city I saw signs, held by people of many races, economic backgrounds and political affiliations, that said “Not In My Name” and “I Am Troy Davis”. I know, without a doubt, that this callous and unjust state execution will not be in my name, but I also [...]

by Kathy Cumbee (bio here, at her first essay for Nature Bats Last) How many of us have been told at one time or another that we are doomers? I was thinking about that and, although it might be correct to call some of us Cassandras , we are not doomers. Suppose a wife tells [...]

by Kevin Moore The most important lesson of history is that the lessons of history are not learned. The First World War was the first grand-scale industrial war in which millions of men and women died as a consequence of weaponry made possible by advanced chemistry. It was to have been ‘the war to end [...]