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Why Is Overshoot a Predicament and Not a Problem?

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  Port Kent Beach, New York

Is Our Way of Life Wrong?

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  Lexie enjoying the view from Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks of New York

The Mistake of Basing Future Life on Today's Realities

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  The summit of Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway , New York

The Wisdom of Experience and Maturity

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I think they need one more sign here...am I going to get in trouble?

The Wider Boundary of Symptom Predicaments

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The Mississinewa Dam

What WON'T Happen?

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  Looking into the distance at Cloudland Canyon State Park

A Predicament With an Outcome

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Ludington Pumped Hydro Project with Lake Michigan in background

Reductionism Doesn't Work Holistically

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Manistee North Pier Lighthouse

Why Hope is Hopium

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  Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan

Burning Man - The Failure of the Green New Deal

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This article is a collaboration with John Peach, from  Wild Peaches .  John Peach is an applied mathematician who held a research position at MIT Lincoln Laboratory until retirement in 2020. As lead investigator of a team of physicists and mathematicians at MIT, he spearheaded development of an atmospheric lidar propagation model accounting for scattering, refraction, and object response. This technology enabled 3D mapping of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria to locate and assess damage, expediting recovery efforts. As part of the disaster relief program, he made three trips to assist FEMA on-site with model implementation, and co-authored the paper  “To Expedite Roadway Identification and Damage Assessment in LiDAR 3D Imagery for Disaster Relief Public Assistance.”

How Do YOU Feel About Ecological Overshoot?

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  Cabwaylingo State Forest , West Virginia

Cultural Programming - Who Will Stand Up For What's Right?

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  The view from Pretty Place Chapel , South Carolina

What Exactly is Peak Oil?

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  PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK

Conservation, Saving Species, Fighting Climate Change, and Rebelling Against Extinction

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Gazebo in Jonesboro, Illinois

IT BEARS REPEATING: BEST OF…VOLUME 1

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  Today, rather than just an article I wrote, I have an entire collection to share! For anyone who is interested in ecological overshoot, this has just been released: IT BEARS REPEATING: BEST OF…VOLUME 1 With a Foreword and Afterword by Michael Dowd, authors include: Max Wilbert; Tim Watkins; Mike Stasse; Dr. Bill Rees; Dr. Tim Morgan; Rob Mielcarski; Dr. Simon Michaux; Erik Michaels; Just Collapse’s Tristan Sykes & Dr. Kate Booth; Kevin Hester; Alice Friedemann; David Casey; and, Steve Bull. Follow the link in the title above to access the downloadable PDF. Enjoy!

What Are Self-Sufficient Communities and Why Are They More Hype Than Substance?

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Some selected images from Pike Lake State Park

Collapse and the End of Industrial Civilization

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On the  Big Four Bridge  in Louisville, Kentucky

Overshoot, Insurance, and Sacrifice Zones

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  Two pictures from Cairo, Illinois

Feedback Loops and Unsustainable Systems

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Mountains as seen from Tennessee Welcome Center

Aquifer Pumping and Land Subsidence

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Green anole at Hoop Pole Creek Nature Trail, North Carolina