Category Archives: Preparing for Civilization’s End

Some More Wild Guesses on CoVid-19

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Dave Pollard

There has been a lot of second guessing recently about the optimal timing for shutting down and reopening the “non-essential” components of our economy in order to minimize death from CoVid-19 without causing economic hardship disproportionate to the direct suffering … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: May 2020

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Dave Pollard

(Reza at poorlydrawnlines has a new book) Last month I led off the monthly links post with the lyrics to “When’s It Going to End?” So maybe I’ll lead this one off with another song about bewilderment and uncertainty, Bob … Continue reading →

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The Tragic Spread of CoVid-19 Misinformation

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from wikimedia — cc-A-SA 4.0 If you work for any progressive organizations, you’ve probably faced some situations where zealots with whom you usually agree are egregiously, even dangerously misinformed on some issue that ends up driving a wedge between … Continue reading →

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There Must Be a Better Way

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Dave Pollard

This is a very long article, about meaningful work and about imagining possibilities. Hope you find it inspiring, and worth the read. Calgary restaurant workers separate tables to meet new social distancing rules prior to reopening. Image from the CBC’s … Continue reading →

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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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