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,…
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…
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…
I'm routinely accused of cherry picking information about climate change. I plead guilty, with the following 1,000-word disclaimer and recognition that everybody else picks cherries, too. One of the differences between me and the others: I admit my bias, and…
by Ray Jason at The Sea Gypsy Philosopher As the old man’s cayuco nudged up alongside AVENTURA, I sensed that there was something different about him this morning, but I couldn’t quite place what it was. He greeted me with…
by Jonathan DeJong I wrote this essay for a collapsitarian group I belong to on Facebook. I was struck by the myriad little kingdoms even we climate-aware folks have compartmentalized ourselves into. I was somewhat despondent at the lack of…
by Geoffrey Chia The genesis for this ancient essay arose during internet discussions with the "meaning of life and everything society" or MOLES chat group under the pseudonym Gandalf. Many years later his essay was published in the Australian Rationalist…