A Grand Unified Theory of Doom
Understanding the rise and fall of industrial civilisation - and what comes next.
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All Civilisations Fall. Ours is Special Though, Obviously. (opens the original)
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1. Introduction: “If You’re Going to Talk About Overshoot for an Hour, at Least Start Cooking Dinner”I am a collapse-aware human, or what today’s urban youth would call a “doomer”.Whether I’m pondering the heat death of the universe (most Mondays) or reading about the huge volume of human shit despoiling UK rivers, collapse is always there, lurking in the background like the ghost of Paul Ehrlich at COP33.I’ve litigated
El Niño Lands on a System Already Collapsing (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: El Niño is arriving with unusual force. Here, I look at where the impacts are likely to land hardest, why the timing matters, and what practical steps we can take as the system loses more of its resilience.1. IntroductionFor several years now, the ocean has been running hot without properly cooling off between events. Food and energy prices rose after the last set of shocks and never fully came back down. Fertiliser and energy markets are still recovering from recent disruption th
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