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We are in a crisis in the evolution of human society. It’s unique to both human and geologic history. It has never happened before and it can’t possibly happen again. Albert Bates, author of The Financial Collapse Survival Guide and Cookbook, brings you along on his personal journey.

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The Great Pause Week 69: One Dark Secret About the Climate Emergency You Won't Hear Anywhere Else

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The Great Pause Week 68: A Martian and a Whale Walk into a Bar

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The Great Pause Week 67: The Social Lives of Forests

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The Great Change Week 66: Sandy deserts mottled with mosses

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The Great Pause Week 65: New Hope Creek Journal, Part Two - Shorting the Future

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Albert Bates: Summertown, TN, United States; I have woven my life-long discoveries into a prescriptive model I call Civilization 2.0. It integrates the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals; soil sequestration of carbon; preserving the cultures of indigenous peoples; ecovillage modalities for governance, education and self-provision; anti-fragile biomass to biochar renewable energy; climate moderating aquatic ecosystems; and microenterprise innovation, incubation, acceleration, B-corporation hubs that function as bioregional circular economies. I sketched all this in the 3-minute video I made for Habitat II in Istanbul in 1996 and the 90-second video we did in 2016 for the MacArthur 100 and Change Challenge that led to my new videos and essays you will find on my YouTube channel or GVI(x).org. I describe the strategy in greater detail in my book from Chelsea Green, Burn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth.

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Climate Denial Crock of the Week

In Face of Devastating Findings: Senator Demonstrates State-of-the-Art Climate Denial - Description: Rep. Jamie Raskin shuts down Republican Ron Johnson and delivers a brilliant breakdown on how fossil fuel companies have intentionally deceive...
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#365 — Reality Check - Sam Harris begins by remembering his friendship with Dan Dennett. He then speaks with David Wallace-Wells about the shattering of our information landsca...
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Lenocracy in Extremis: The Case of Publishing - I really did mean to go on to a different subject this week, rather than talking further about the system of political economy I’ve labeled lenocracy (from...
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Reclaiming Tech w/ Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams & Alison Winch - Cultural & Political Theorists Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams & Alison Winch share their insights on the societal impacts of technological innovation, th...
Fernglade Farm

Am I dreaming? - The other day I gave a talk on the subject of soil. The direction of the topic was of my choosing, but the angle of the story alluded me. What would conn...
Restoring Mayberry

Worms - Some years ago, the UK government completed a study on the food people bought and ate, and came up with a sobering result: in a time when global hunger is...
Our Finite World

The world’s economic myths are hitting limits - There are many myths about energy and the economy. In this post I explore the situation surrounding some of these myths. My analysis strongly suggests that...
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By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
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How to Escape From the Iron Age? - [image: Image: Steel rebar construction for the concrete foundation of a wind turbine in Gilliam County, US. Image by Goose Chap, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY...
Beyond the Wasteland

Spirit in the Stones - It’s been quite a while since I blogged. Life just gets in the way sometimes, and with so many maddening things going on in the world right now and demandi...
22 Billion Energy Slaves

New Blog - Beyond the Wasteland - Greetings all! I have started a new blog over at Beyond the Wasteland. It's a bit like 22 Billion Energy Slaves but will be more wide ranging in its con...
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Kick the Supermarket Habit! 10 Tips for Identifying Nutritious, Life-Giving Foods - Tip #10 – Ignore the food pyramid… and the “My Plate” Let’s take a look at the role of the USDA in this mess we’re in. Why does it continue to recommend D...

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