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How Did We Get Here?

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  The chairlift at Natural Tunnel State Park, Virginia

Collapse and the End of Industrial Civilization

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On the  Big Four Bridge  in Louisville, Kentucky

The Climate Crisis, Localization, and Collapse

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Louisville, Kentucky skyline as seen from the Big Four Bridge at Waterfront Park

Overshoot, Insurance, and Sacrifice Zones

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  Two pictures from Cairo, Illinois

Why Do We Lack Agency and What Makes Humans Happy?

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  Viking Mountain Overlook, Tennessee

Feedback Loops and Unsustainable Systems

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Mountains as seen from Tennessee Welcome Center

Solutions, Outcomes, and Unsustainable Systems

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  Lake Powhatan Swimming Beach, North Carolina

The Exponential Nature of Collapse

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  Silver Springs Filling Station , US 176, South Carolina

Myths About Hunter/Gatherers, Violence, and Outcomes

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  Lake Juniper at Cheraw State Park, South Carolina

What is Hopium?

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Seriously Thorny Issues

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Kure Beach Pier, North Carolina How often do you develop a theory about something or hear about one and then try to prove that theory wrong? I keep trying to prove my theories wrong but instead keep finding proof that they are actually correct (highly disappointingly, I might add). I'm constantly asking WHY we haven't come to realize and accept the facts and then actually ACT upon those facts collectively. For instance, why aren't we working on reducing technology use? The Degrowth Movement recognizes that energy and resource throughput must be reduced either by design or by disaster, and that as such, this necessarily dictates a reduction of technology use. One cannot keep introducing new technologies which require the infrastructural platforms which already exist and magically expect the energy and resources to build, power, and maintain these devices to appear out of nowhere. Furthermore, the energy to power and maintain the infrastructural platforms we ALREADY have

Aquifer Pumping and Land Subsidence

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Green anole at Hoop Pole Creek Nature Trail, North Carolina  

False Beliefs and Denial, Part Two

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Atlantic Ocean, Kure Beach, North Carolina

What Are Superbugs and How Are They Related to Ecological Overshoot?

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Looking towards the Atlantic Ocean from Fort Macon, North Carolina

Bargaining and Degrowth

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  Gazebo at Fort Macon, North Carolina