Interview With the Poetry of Predicament
I am not a pundit. But I play one on YouTube. Dean Walker, of the website livingresilience.net and the YouTube podcast The Poetry of Predicament — sites that try to help people deal with the angst of...
View ArticleThey Say You Never Hear the Shot That
Kills you. Because the bullet travels faster than the sound of the shot, you can be dead before the sound arrives. Which is kind of what is going on now — deadly events are arriving at such a pace, and...
View ArticleReality TV: Planet of the Humans
I was a little slow getting a look at the controversial new documentary from Michael Moore’s shop, Planet of the Humans. Eight million people beat me to it. I was anxious to see it, not only because...
View ArticleGetting to Know You, Collapse
The idea of an impending American collapse is enjoying a better class of friends these days. Long relegated to the low-income housing of blogs like The Daily Impact and The Doomstead Diner and the...
View ArticleLiving Well in a Burning House
During the final three decades of the 20th Century, the world experienced at most 100 major disasters — both natural and industrial — every year, with annual damages averaging $70 billion. During the...
View ArticleBrace for Impact
It is extremely uncomfortable being a citizen of an empire that is circling the drain of history. Like passengers on a doomed airplane, we can watch the onboard movie with all the concentration we can...
View ArticleApocalypse Pretty Soon Now
Acrid smoke from unrestrained wildfires burning in remote Canadian forests this spring and summer has repeatedly fouled the air and dimmed the sun in vast swaths of the US Northeast and Midwest....
View ArticleNext for Planet Earth: Palliative Care
Palliative care, as I understand it, is given to a patient when doctors have given up on finding a cure, or even reversing the progression of the patient’s disease. The purpose of palliative care is to...
View ArticleThe Human Race: Down but Not Out
An astonishing study using new genetic methods to research human history has discovered evidence that bolsters my long-held belief that the impending crash of industrial society does not necessarily...
View Article10 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse
[This article, written by Alan Urban for the website okdoomer.io is an updated mirror image of the arguments I made in my 2009 book Brace for Impact. Not many people agree, so I wanted you to see it.]...
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