Category Archives: Preparing for Civilization’s End

Uh Oh… Double CoVid Trouble

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Dave Pollard

author’s rough estimate of current and projected CoVid-19 infection rates, based on data listed above and in the article below; data for the “world” and for Brasil are interpolated from other sources using various assumptions, and are hence much less … Continue reading →

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The Needs of the Moment

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Business ‘experts’, who probably earn million dollar annual salaries for supposedly knowing all about their businesses, were polled by the WEF for the January 2020 Global Risk report, and asked to rank 30 risks in terms of their expected impact … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month — April 2020

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Too many links to wait ’til quarter’s end again, so I’m planning on reverting to a monthly schedule of the best recent links. Thanks to the many readers who point me to these, so I can almost keep up. Cartoon … Continue reading →

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Aerial photo of anti-Netanyahu protestors April 19, 2020 in Tel Aviv; photo by Tomer Appelbaum for Haaretz Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Want to Kill You

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from Wikipedia, public domain from Mikael Häggström (2014). New and missing: Ebola virus and Marburg virus (hemorrhagic fever), the new SARS CoV-2 (CoVid-19) virus, New Flaviviruses (yellow fever, dengue fever, West Nile, Zika virus), Human Monkeypox, and BSE/Mad Cow, … Continue reading →

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We Make Zero

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from MaxPixel, public domain, CC0 “We Make Zero”. When I saw that headline on a recent CBC article about the economic impact of CoVid-19, I thought it might actually be a recognition of how very little of western economic … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19, Complexity & Collapse: The Long Game

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Dave Pollard

poster by Spanish cartoonist Miguel Brieva, reproduced in the Tyee Last week I summarized what I thought were the likely short-term developments with the virus, and thus far the models that have been developed have proved to be surprisingly accurate. … Continue reading →

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What’s Next For CoVid-19: Some Wild Guesses

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Forecasts April 9th, 2020 (shortly after this article was first written): [EDIT] Updated Forecasts May 4th, 2020: Current CoVid-19 deaths for North America West Coast jurisdictions to [EDITS: updated to April 9th & May 4th] per the nCoVid2019 Dashboard, and … Continue reading →

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Links of the Quarter: March 2020

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Dave Pollard

The mass of mankind is ruled not by its own intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the needs of the moment. It seems fated to wreck the balance of life on Earth — and thereby to be … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: January 2020

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Too many great links to wait until the end of the quarter to post them all. So here we go with another Links of the Month: PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S END cartoon by Michael Leunig The Unnecessariat: A fascinating ‘future state’ … Continue reading →

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