This Week In Doom July 14, 2019
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Anthony Freda
Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on July 14, 2019
“The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
There is a steady drumbeat of madness in the air… or it is simply my pulse in my ears? It grows louder. It screams of inevitability. When I was a little boy, four or five, I distinctly recall wondering whether mine might not be the last generation […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Cripple Cart Construction Project
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 14, 2019
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It's been a bizzy week for both Kollapsniks and Cripples,and I have been overwhelmed with work to do in both areas. I was working on editing a Collapse Cafe video I did with Jason Heppenstalll of 22 Billion Energy Slaves a couple of weeks ago, then George Mobus of Question Everything and I got together to discuss his new Systems Science book along with questions from the Collapse 2019 Survey early in the week as well. Then I finalized plans for a Jet Setting, Fossil Fuel Burning trip down to Seattle in the Lower 48, set now for departure on July 18th of this week. As much as I wanted to edit and publish the discussions with Jason & George though, in this case the approaching DEADLINE for the trip to Seattle took precedence over both. Those vids will be aired of course, but in all likelihood not until after I return from this latest Globe Trotting Adventure at the End of […] Continue Reading…
A Collective Action Emergency Plan
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on July 13, 2019
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Published on Chasing the Squirrel on July 7, 2019
Business as usual needs a funeral. Responding to existential risk.
Existential has been echoing around the inside of the Environmental/Collapse of Western Industrial Civilization rabbit hole for a while. I expect it will be co-opted into existential reasons to buy consumer products soon enough, so explaining what it means now is good.
Existential can mean outright extinction as in the American Passenger Pigeon or the soon to be extinct Monarch butterfly applied to humans, but existential need not go that far. Large negative consequences which can't be undone which limit human potential for all future generations are existential threats.
Current global warming is at 1 degree C and 1.5 degrees is going to happen if people were to stop using fossil fuels yesterday. Paris' agreements would like everybody to agree at stopping warming at a 2 degrees C target and science says actual results consistent with honouring the Paris agreements will result in 3 degrees C of warming. Four degrees of warming by end of century is […] Continue Reading…
Responding to Collapse, Part 9: Getting Prepared, Part 1
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Published on The Easiest Person to Fool on June 13, 2019
Willow I coppiced earlier this spring.
The new shoots are already 18" long–by fall they will be between 4 and 6 feet long and ready for basket making.
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The central idea of this series of posts is that the collapse of our industrial civilization is already underway (has been since the 1970s) and seems very likely to continue until "Business as Usual" (BAU) is no longer capable of supplying us with the necessities of life. This collapse is proceeding in a fashion that is uneven (geographically), unsteady (chronologically) and unequal (socially), and we can expect it to continue in the same irregular way. Accordingly, it should be possible to pick some places and lifestyles that will suffer less severely than others.
I have recommended moving to a small town fairly remote from larger cities in an area likely to suffer less from the worst ravages of climate change and with the local resources necessary to provide at least water, food and energy (mainly firewood) for its inhabitants. Of course, some advance set up […] Continue Reading…
The Math Says We’re Going to Fall…This Will Not End Well
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on July 6, 2019
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Greetings Diners, K-Dog here,
I had the pleasure of being invited to share a few of my thoughs of Doom by Sam Mitchell. It is quite an honor to become a member of the kennel club that Sam Mitchel interviews. Sam finds good people. After you get your fix here at the Diner you might take a peek and look at who else Sam has interviewed at Collapse Chronicles. I have and I'm glad I did. Above is my interview.
Dr. Paul Ehrlich was Sam's first interview.
Saying it was an honor to be interviewed by Sam obviously does not say enough, Paul needs no introduction.
Best wishes,
K-Dog
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Doomstead Diner Collapse 2019 Summer Solstice Festival: Coda
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 30, 2019
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The Collapse Summer Solstice 2019 Festival comes to a close today here on the Diner, after a very succesful launch of our newest project for the SUN Foundation, the Diner Mobile Food Truck. We're still only in the testing phase for this project, but so far all is going according to plan and swimmingly well.
In the world at large of Collapse, it was another lively week, this time with the Democratic Debates as the Feature of the political Clown Show that will continue right through to the end of 2020! That's over a year of almost guaranteed Collapse-o-tainment, unless of course the Internet Goes Dark, Global Thermonuclear War gets underway or […] Continue Reading…
Open Letter to EXTINCTION REBELLION
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on June 29, 2019
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Dear Extinction Rebels,
First of all, let me salute your fortitude to speak (what you think is) the truth, no matter how frightening.
Let me salute your resolve to do (what you think is) right, no matter how difficult.
Let me salute your courage to risk life, limb and liberty to oppose the omnicidal juggernaut of Industrial Capitalism, no matter how hopeless.
I understand your deep frustrations regarding the abject failure of our so-called leaders to do anything meaningful to address the obscene planetary devastation now spiralling out of control.
I understand you feel that your only remaining option now is mass civil disobedience.
I understand you believe that if only you can reach certain critical numbers within each population, you can drive urgent social change around the world to enact emergency measures to prevent global collapse of our life support systems.
In a world steeped in deceit, mendacity and narcissism, you strive for honesty, integrity and selflessness.
In a world steeped in vulgarity, materialism and avarice you stand for nobility, humanism and generosity
In a world steeped […] Continue Reading…
A Collapseitarian Brunch
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on June 23, 2019
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A cornucopia of threats is on the horizon. Nobody is prepared. Constructive leadership is vacant in the face of multiple global existential emergencies. To say the limits to growth have been reached does not go far enough to say what is now happening on our planet.
Limits to growth have been exceeded by unrestrained global population growth. The world is being rapidly terraformed into a caricature of the emerald and blue jewel the earth has been for people throughout all human history.
The earth needs to keep being a verdant green jewel for human survival but the earth is beginning to run a fever and may get very sick. It has an infection. The fever will cure the infection; population numbers will be reduced to a fraction of current numbers. Or people will become extinct. The earths' fever will rise to a temperature needed to do the job of eliminating the infection before it begins to go down.
If population impact is reduced by changes in human ways of living actual numbers need not be […] Continue Reading…
Summer Solstice Doom Days
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 23, 2019
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The Summer Solstice (in the Northern Hemispher where I am writing from, Winter Solstice for you Diners on the other side of the Equator in Oz, South America, Africa, India and a few other dots of land mass down under) has brought with it a healthy Dose of Doom as our path to Industrial Civilization Collapse accelerates. It was tough to select out a few choice morsels for consumption today, I left out many calamitous events that occured this week. How much Doom can you squeeze into a 20 min Newz Briefing anyhow?
The doom events of the week were both local and international, and they steadily escalate in intensity as well […] Continue Reading…
Doomstead Diner 2019 Summer Solstice Celebration
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 21, 2019
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Diners are always concerned with topics relating to the SUN☼, which provides the ENERGY for all life on Earth. When the Sun☼ finally does burn itself out a few 100 Million years into the future, the species Homo Sap and all the other life forms inhabiting this rock hurtling through space will all finally go EXTINCT, if they don't before then if other calamities overtake them. SUN☼ as a result is the acronym for our 501c3 non-profit corporation, the Sustaining Universal Needs Foundation.
Also as a result, our most recent convocation was held down in Rexburg, Idaho in 2017, where we camped out in a Sun Baked Farmer's Field to observe the Total Eclipse of the Sun☼ as it passed along the Path of Totality. For me, it was a transformative experience, trancendental and spiritual. I had never witnessed that 2 minutes of time that comes rarely to any given spot on the earth. I have travelled extensively through my life, but never was I at […] Continue Reading…
Wingsuiting the Seneca Cliff – A Collapse Conversation with Ugo Bardi
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 16, 2019
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A great conversation with my old friend in Collapse analysis this week, Ugo Bardi. For those of you newbies unfamiliar with Ugo, he's a professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Firenza in Italy and one of the authors of the original Limits to Growth study done in the 1970s. Ugo is a fountain of knowledge on all areas of Collapse, who some in the field see as "overly optimistic" since he is very much a proponent of renewable energy, specifically in the area of solar photovoltaics. I'm not entirely on the same page as Ugo on this one, but in most areas we are in general […] Continue Reading…
Diner 2019 Summer Solstice Celebration – Friday June 21st to Sunday June 30th
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 14, 2019
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We had our last Celebration and Feast back in February, for the 7th Anniversary of covering the Collapse of Industrial Civilization here on the Doomstead Diner. We are OVERDUE for another celebration!
The Summer Solstice is a traditional time for celebrations, particularly amongst the pagan cultures of the Middle Ages.. Since if we don't go Extinct we look likely to be living in a pre-Industrial stlye culture, now seems like a good time to be resurrecting and practicing these traditions again.
For this feast, the Main Menu which I am cooking up is a Prix Fixe menu, no choices there but it's FREE! 🙂 That's because you just get to look at it, you don't actually get to EAT it unless you follow the recipes at home and cook it up for yourself. The recipes though are a great value, no paywall and no ads either!
Since the Solstice falls on a Friday (at least on this side of the Dateline) and we traditionally eat Fish on Fridays here […] Continue Reading…
“The Seneca Strategy” — Asking for Suggestions from my Readers
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Published on Cassandra's Legacy on June 9, 2019
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About Amelia the Amoeba, she is a pedigreed Naegleria Fowleri, a species known for her habit of eating human brains – an interesting case of a Seneca Collapse for the owner of the brain. But Amelia is a good girl and she won't do that to you if you are nice to her.
My second book on the concept of "Seneca Collapse" (or Cliff, or Ruin, or the like) is nearly completed and it should be available from Springer before the end of the year. It is a sequel to my first book, "The Seneca Effect", but this second one is thought as more easily readable "trade" book. It will be sold at a reasonable price, unlike the first one that was supposed to be a specialized, scientific book.
You see above a first attempt at a title and a cover for this book. Of course, the publisher […] Continue Reading…
The RE & Monsta Mash – Collapse June 10, 2019
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 10, 2019
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Today's Collapse Topics: Brexit, Brit Elections, Trade Wars, Iranian Sanctions, Sudan Crisis, Venezuela, Hyperinflation
I'm back together with Monsta this week for a recap of recent Collapse Events, focusing to begin with on the ongoing Clown Show over in Jolly Old England, where Monsta is broadcasting from in London. The new name for our show is the "RE & Monsta Mash", since it is a mashup of many Collapse Topics, all of which have generally Monstrous results. lol. We will hopefully produce this one on a fairly regular basis. Still have technical issues and had to axe my direct feed, but at least this time all the audio is […] Continue Reading…
Prometheus Rising: Trucking at the End of the Age of Oil
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 5, 2019
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Note: Prometheus Rising is a new show with many technical difficulties in audio and video. Pardon us while we work out the bugs.
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Long term Diners are aware of my history in the Trucking industry, which spanned 7 years from 1997 to 2004. If you haven't been around here dining on Collapse until recently, you can find a decent part of the history in the Over the Road series I wrote in the early days of the Diner's existence.
Trucking remains a great interest of mine, for numerous reasons. On a personal level, the experience transformed me into a more Solitary Man, more at peace being alone than in the company of […] Continue Reading…
The Strafing Run of Mother Nature – 2019 Tornado & Flood Edition
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 2, 2019
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Last year Inside the Diner, we initiated the "Strafing Run of Mother Nature" discussion thread. The title came from the steady stream of Hurricanes coming across the Atlantic in the Hurricane Season of 2018, which saw a Cat 5 (Michael) make landfall on the Florida Panhandle and devastate beachfront Tourista destinations like Panama City as well as one of the FSoA military's largest establishments, Tyndall Air Force Base. Some outcomes from the arsenal of Mother Nature aren't entirely all bad.
The Atlantic Hurricane season has just begun, running from June 1st to November 30th, and we don't know yet how many hurricanes Mother Nature will spawn off the west coast of Africa […] Continue Reading…
On Dogs And Dying
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on May 29, 2019
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C5 On Dogs And Dying
Posted on May 7, 2019 by Dark Green Mountain Survival Research Centre
Dino, the older of our two dogs passed this week.
That’s not quite right. We helped him pass. It must always be remembered that this is our final responsibility, in our joint symbiotic relationship of human and canine.
It would generally not be a public topic I would share, but it seems to me that writing about our relationship is part of grieving and saying goodby to one of our life partners.
Dino (seen on the left, back when Harley was still with us and Shogun was a new pup) was 15 years old. He had come close to dying several times, but each time it was looking like That Time, I could tell that he wasn’t ready to go.
It’s not unusual for a blogger to post a memorial post when an animal is gone. They are our family members. But you honor me by coming back, to learn from me, on the subject of Survival and Adaptation in a declining world. […] Continue Reading…
This Month in Doom May, 2019
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Anthony Freda
Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on May 27, 2019
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-Joseph Goebbels
It's been a while. So shoot me. Since I posted the last "This Week in Doom" article, I have semi-retired, meaning that I live off "Mailbox money" but answer the phone for assignments. I've discovered the joy of completing long-delayed house projects, and savored the delight of the mid-afternoon nap. Yet sometimes articles bust forth unbidden, with the explosive force of a germinating seed. So here we are, after an unseemly delay.
American Tantrum
May 2019 has been a month in which those of us who have feared that, in Yeats' […] Continue Reading…
Transatlantic Clown Show
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Published on The Doomstead Diner May 26, 2019
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Collapse on the Political level in the Anglo-Amerikan Empire has moved into the land of the surreal. The developments of the last week have brought into question the very foundation of the Goobermints that supposedly legislate for the populations, although if you are paying close attention you'll know that's not really true. The folks with the real control are operating behind the scenes, and the Politicians supposedly governing are just marionettes useful for public consumption.
Today's rant is transatlantic, covering a week of truly EPIC buffonery by the marionettes on both sides of the pond, Donalditry Tumpovetsky here in the FSoA and Terrible Theresa May over in Jolly Old England. The […] Continue Reading…
Home Fries: Collapse Breakfast Energy Food on a Budget
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Published on The Doomstead Diner May 23, 2019
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Another Breakfast dish this week from the Cooking Zone of the Diner, but NOT eggs this time! lol. today's breakfast potatoes are fixed as Home Fries, which should not be confused with hash browns which are also good, but not prepared the same way. Home fries were my favorite from my youth, and one of the first things I learned to cook as a breakfast food, along with leftover fried spaghett, which I covered in a previous Cooking Zone episode.
Besides being high in energy content and cheap, potatoes are one of the best veggies to grow yourself in the garden or even on your porch if you live in an urban or suburban environement. You can use a "Potato Tower" and get a greater density of potatoes per square foot than you would get with more traditional gardening methods.
Besides the advantages of having a high energy content in calories and being able to easily grow them at home, they also grow well in […] Continue Reading…
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