Table of Contents

This page last updated September, 2026

Black Rock Overlook at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia looking down into Clayton

ARTICLES

• What is Civilizational Amnesia?
• Our Anthropocentrism and Psychology, Part Three
• Natural Wonders and More Narratives
• Our Anthropocentrism and Psychology, Part Two
• How Many Narratives Can You Spot?
• Our Anthropocentrism and Psychology
• More "Solutions"
• What Is The Need For Closure?
• What Is Hermeneutics?
• More Blind Spots
• Blind Spots
• The New Era We Are Entering
• Collapse As The Framework Which Now Surrounds Us
• Our Way of Life Is Coming To An End
• Collapse is Being Hastened
• Plastic Pollution - Should We Worry?
• The Invasion of The Idiots
• What Can Be Done About Overshoot?
• Qualities of Predicaments To Keep In Mind
• Our Wiley E. Coyote Moment
• Why Is Overshoot a Predicament and Not a Problem?
• What is Eremition?
• Walking Away and Opting Out 
• Stop Making Sense
• Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales, Part Four
• Happy Holidays! I Have Brought Hopium!
• We're Saved! A Collection of 'Solution' Critiques, Volume 1
• What is Technology Addiction?
• Is Our Way Of Life Wrong?
• What If We Just Start Now?
• Are We Running Out of Road? Part Two
• Are We Running Out of Road?
• The Illusion of Self and Separation
• The Mistake of Basing Future Life on Today's Realities
• NEWSFLASH! Predicaments are NOT Problems!
• Anthropocentrism and Reality
• Living Now is Important Because You Are Not Non-Existent
• What is Non-Existence?
• The First Step to Behavioral Change
• What is Ecological Collapse?
• Let's Talk About Another Uncomfortable Topic
• What is Special Pleading?
• The Wisdom of Experience and Maturity
• Anthropocentric Narratives and Bargaining
• Technology Addiction and Lessons, Part Two
• Technology Addiction and Lessons
• Beliefs Versus Facts
• Denial of Reality, Part Two
• The Difference Between Hope (Fear) and Courage (No Fear)
• The Psychology Behind the Misunderstanding of Predicaments
• The Wider Boundary of Symptom Predicaments
• Ecological Collapse Supersedes Financial Collapse
• Supercharging the Predicaments We Face
• What WON'T Happen?
• The End of The Regenerative Illusion?
• The Condition of Our Anthropocentrism
• Radical Acceptance, Part Three
• Radical Acceptance, Part Two
• What is Radical Acceptance?
• A Predicament With an Outcome
• Geological Events Show the Difference Between Predicaments and Problems
• Reductionism Doesn't Work Holistically
• The Dilemma and Conundrum of Predicaments
• Why Hope is Hopium
• Capitalism and Extinction
• Do You Want Truth or an Illusion?
• Why is Our Lack of Agency Difficult to Accept?
• Burning Man - The Failure of the Green New Deal
• How Do YOU Feel About Ecological Overshoot?
• It Bears Repeating: Best Of...Volume 2
• Why Won't We™ Change Direction?
• Why is Reductionism Such an Issue?
• The Double Bind With Mitigating Ideas
• Are YOU Ready For Collapse? 
• A Plea To Scientists, Teachers, Influencers, and Politicians Everywhere
• Popular Narratives That Do Not Hold Up Under Scrutiny
• Our Actual Reality - the Disappearance of Modernity
• What is Our Actual Reality?
• The Biggest Issue is NOT Climate Change; it is OVERSHOOT
• More Bargaining and Hopium
• Psychological Mechanisms to Deny Reality and Employ Optimism Bias
• Cultural Programming - Who Will Stand Up For What's Right?
• The "Solution" Obsession
• Changing Perspectives
• Summer Reflections
• New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame
• What Exactly is Peak Oil?
• Accepting Our Lack of Agency
• Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture?
• Exploring Deeper Acceptance, Part Two
• Exploring Deeper Acceptance
• Exploring Acceptance
• What's a Hyperobject and Why Can't We Control Them?
• Conservation, Saving Species, Fighting Climate Change, and Rebelling Against Extinction
• Carbon Sinks Are Becoming Carbon Sources
• What is Latent Heat of Fusion?
• Ignorance, Hubris, and Stupidity
• What Are The Most Popular Forms of Hopium?
• So, What Should We Do? Part Four
• How Intractable is Our Lack of Agency?
• The Evolution of My Thinking
• Why Is Society Still Mired in Mainstream Thinking?
• External Change Can Only Come About From Internal Change
• Rationalizing, Storytelling, and Narrative-Generating Apes
• What Does Lack of Universal Perspective From Society Imply?
• Do You See Technology From a Complete Perspective?
• Why is Excessive Optimism Often Rewarded With a Reset of Reality? 
• Why Do Today's Realities Escape Society?
• What Are GeoDestinies?
• Why are "Solutions" Really Just Bargaining?
• Time for a Reality Check?
• Dave Gardner For President!
• The Chief Cause of Problems is Solutions
• It Bears Repeating: Best Of...Volume 1
• What Are Self-Sufficient Communities and Why Are They More Hype Than Substance?
• How Did We Get Here?
• Collapse and the End of Industrial Civilization
• The Climate Crisis, Localization, and Collapse
• Overshoot, Insurance, and Sacrifice Zones 
• Why Do We Lack Agency and What Makes Humans Happy?
• Feedback Loops and Unsustainable Systems
• Solutions, Outcomes, and Unsustainable Systems
• The Exponential Nature of Collapse
• Myths About Hunter/Gatherers, Violence, and Outcomes 
• What is Hopium?
• Seriously Thorny Issues
• Aquifer Pumping and Land Subsidence
• False Beliefs and Denial, Part Two
• What Are Superbugs and How Are They Related to Ecological Overshoot?
• Bargaining and Degrowth
• Don't Postpone Joy!
• What is a Man-Made Disaster?
• What is Indigenuity?
• Yeah, But What About Human Ingenuity?
• Enlightenment and the Maximum Power Principle
• Enlightenment Eradicates False Beliefs
• What Does Extinction Mean?
• What is Degrowth?
• Free Will: The Grand Illusion
• The Beauty of The Silence
• Defense Mechanisms and Technology Use
• Happy New Year!
• The Beauty of The Darkness
• Bargaining to Maintain Civilization
• What Exactly is Collapse?
• The Illusion of Debate
• Why is Methane Such a Threat?
• What is a Derecho?
• The Illusion of Control
• What Qualities Do the Predicaments We Face Possess?
• How Safe, Secure, and Sustainable is the Electrical Grid?
• Are You Running Towards Life or Running Away From Death?
• What is Doomism?
• Collapse and The Exponential Function
• The Iconic Book List
• The Great Simplification
• A Comment by Ernie Fidgeon
• Attention Span and The Role of Technology
• Invasive Species
• Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith's New Series
• Laurenc's Paper
• Why Will Flooding Closures Become Commonplace?
• Desert Apocalypse - What Are We Losing?
• What Is Oil and Why Is It So Special?
• My Absence
• More Fairy Tales
• How Bad is Pollution Loading?
• Why Not Admit Our Energy Addiction?
• Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves
• False Beliefs and Denial
• Why is Civilization Unsustainable?
• Let's Talk About Agriculture
• What is The Venus Project and Why Can It Never Be Attained?
• Some Thoughts About COP-26
• Activities Which Can Help Us Deal With Climate Anxiety
• Why The War On Climate Change is Bipolar
• New Documentary: Headwind"21
• What is "Surplus Energy"?
• Trees
• Does Climate Change Increase Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity?
• Why is Promoting Technology NOT Good?
• What Should We Want to Hold Onto?
• The Fantasy of Electrification 
• Why Am I Still Writing? 
• The Myth of The "Energy Transition" 
• More Cognitive Dissonance, Part Two 
• Pulling Back The Curtain On The Energy Transition Tale 
• More Cognitive Dissonance
• What is the Root Issue of Our Unsustainability?
• It's a Trap, Don't Do It  
• What Kind of Mindsets Lead Us Into Traps?
• The Grand Illusion 
• So, What Should We Do? Part Two
• So, What Should We Do? 
• Let's Talk About Infrastructure
• Quick Note - New Facebook Page
• What is Ecological Overshoot? 
• Who is Mike Stasse and What Does He Know About Solar Energy Systems?
• Who is Professor Thomas W. Murphy, Jr. and What Does He Know About Energy and Resource Decline? 
• The Anthropocene - Where on Earth Are We Going?
• The Hydrogen Economy Myth 
• Debunking 'Chemtrails' 
• More Bright Green Lies - MEER
• More Myths - This Time With Some Reality
• Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales, Part Two
• Live Now
• Fantasies, Myths and Fairy Tales
• Down To Earth
• Julia Barnes Discusses Her New Documentary "Bright Green Lies"
• New Book Available - Life After Fossil Fuels
• Can We Save Species From Extinction? 
• Extinction Events and Hydrogen Sulfide
• Who is James G. Anderson and What Does He Know About Climate Change? 
• The Cycle of Life
• Agency - Do We Have Free Will?
• Playing the Blame Game Doesn't Help
• What Will We Miss the Most?
• What Would it Take for Humanity to Experience Radical Transformation?
• How Will Healthcare and Medications be Affected by Energy and Resource Decline?
• Relocating due to Sea Level Rise
• What is NTHE and How "near" is Near Term?
• Nuclear Power: Issues Regarding Ramping it up to Substitute Fossil Fuels
• Optimism Bias 
• Newly Updated Articles and "Bright Green Lies" 
• Denial of Reality
• Welcome to Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

FILES

(Special Note: The updating of the files was discontinued in 2022. Please visit this page to find updated information.)

• Ecological Overshoot
• Climate Change and Collapse
• Disease 
• Tree Decline and Deforestation 
• Wildfire Links
• Arctic Ocean, Greenland Ice Sheet, Permafrost Links, And Other Cryosphere Information
• Agriculture & Food and Water Security
• Species and Biodiversity Loss
• Pollution Loading
• Aerosol Particulates, Clouds, and Global Dimming
• Extreme Weather Events
• Extinction
• Good News
• Infrastructure
• Resilience/Sustainability
• Heatwaves
• Ocean Acidification and Marine Life
• Drought
• Hypoxia
• Toxic Algal Blooms
• Flooding
• Sea Level Rise
• Spirituality Resources
• Methane Links
• Emissions Links
• Population Links
• Energy and Resource Decline and "Renewable" Links
• Invasive Species

PAGES

• The Busy Worker's Handbook to the Apocalypse
• Good News Posts
• About Me
• Acceptance
• How ASI Could Destroy Humanity
• What is Wetiko?
• Disease Outbreak Resources
• Masks - Do They Work?
• Overshoot Loop and Evolution
• The Maximum Power Principle
• Why Should We "Live Now"?
• Special Notes
• Who Exactly is "WE"?
• Resource Links
• Files