We are having a serious overshoot problem, and the fact that most of us don’t recognize it as our biggest issue won’t make it disappear or contract in size. In essence, we use more natural resources every year than what gets replenished by…

Putting tipping points into context — When you start to see the world as a massively complex self-adapting system with its innumerable actors and all its tipping points — as discussed in Part 1 of this essay — you start to see phase transitions everywhere. The world as we know it is about cross several tipping…

Losing polar ice, the Amazon and the fight against a coming recession — News stories and popular narratives on recent — and not so recent — events like how the economy got broke or why inflation is soaring focus too much on human decisions. …

After exploring the possible ways the West could (continue to) collapse in Part 1, let’s turn our mental gaze towards the East, and see what are the global implications of such a shift in centers of power — if there are any... No single crisis is permanent — it is…

Can the East survive the fall (or rather the collective suicide) of the West? Can the center of global power be transferred from the falling Western Empire to its Eastern counterparts? And ultimately: will this shift contribute to or, instead, reverse the end-game of this global civilization…? These are the…

Ha! You thought peak oil was ‘debunked’, or ‘solved’ a long time ago by the ‘shale oil revolution’ in the US? Well, it is time to think again… (For a more scientifically reticent commentary on the subject I recommend reading Richard Heinberg’s recent correspondence on the story. …

The old world order is being blasted into pieces as we talk. Centuries old axioms get questioned as the reality of a finite world slowly sets in. All this against the backdrop of a rapidly deteriorating economic situation and untold human suffering. …

in which a planet-sized blindspot gets revealed — You were warned The following read might incite serious levels of cognitive dissonance and result in anger, disbelief and an irresistible urge to trash the author. Unfortunately I cannot take responsibility for your actions, so proceed at your own risk from here on. During my journey, discovering the predicament of our civilization, I’ve…

in which the motivation behind the Honest Sorcerer gets revealed — My last article on the future of electricity has received quite a few critical comments both from proponents of nuclear as well as solar energy, accusing me with ‘denigrating’ their favored solution. …