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New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame

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  Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina

What Exactly is Peak Oil?

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  PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK

Accepting Our Lack of Agency

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  An early morning picture at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia

Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture?

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  Popcorn Overlook, Lake Burton, Georgia

Exploring Deeper Acceptance, Part Two

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  Gum Gap Overlook, Grandview, Tennessee

Exploring Deeper Acceptance

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  Wolf Creek Dam , Kentucky

Exploring Acceptance

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  Seeing the forest through the trees can be difficult; this is the Section Eight Woods in the Cache River Wetlands in Southern Illinois

What's a Hyperobject and Why Can't We Control Them?

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  Playhouse (for the landowners' grandchildren) in Jonesboro, Illinois Four of my articles over the past couple of years are part of a four-part series titled, " So, What Should We Do? " The first three articles were written, one after the other, back in 2021 after I discovered our lack of free will which condemns us to make choices based upon our biological (see the Maximum Power Principle ) and cultural conditioning (see this article ). This led me to realize that we truly lack agency to be able to control hyperobjects such as nature, climate change, ecological overshoot , the biosphere, etc. Not only is the predicament of overshoot too difficult for most people to grasp, many people unfortunately place it in the category of problems (with answers or solutions) rather than predicaments (with outcomes). Attempting to reduce issues seen as problems tends to turn those issues into bigger problems and/or predicaments. Often this is due to those working on these issues

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

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Gazebo in Jonesboro, Illinois

Carbon Sinks Are Becoming Carbon Sources

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Cliff View Park, Alto Pass, Illinois

What is Latent Heat of Fusion?

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  Artwork from Ken Avidor

Ignorance, Hubris, and Stupidity

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  Artwork from Ken Avidor

What Are The Most Popular Forms of Hopium?

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  Artwork by Ken Avidor

So, What Should We Do? Part Four

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  Pictures from Seneca State Forest, West Virginia

How Intractable is Our Lack of Agency?

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  Farm near Douthat State Park, Virginia