Monthly Archives: December 2013

Who Are We, Uncivilized?

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Dave Pollard

Bonobo photo by Christian Ziegler for National Geographic. Once I’ve finished my three-part series on complexity for Shift magazine, explaining why our energy, economic and ecological systems are headed inevitably for collapse, I’m proposing to write a series of speculative … Continue reading →

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Rearranging the Deck Chairs

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Dave Pollard

George Monbiot’s latest article (thanks to PS Pirro for the link) claims that not only have large corporations come to dominate all aspects of our economy — oligopolies controlling every major industry sector, media, politicians and schools doing their bidding etc. … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 4 Comments

The Circles We Move In

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Dave Pollard

Seb Paquet put me on to a free (limited, demo) app called TouchGraph that analyzes all your ‘friends’ on Facebook, and colour-codes them depending on the number of connections they have to your other friends. Mine is shown above, with … Continue reading →

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The Fire This Time

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Dave Pollard

A few days ago I watched the documentary Chasing Ice, as part of our local Transition initiative’s film series. What really struck me in the film was the narrator’s four word comment about 1/3 through the film when he was discussing … Continue reading →