Category Archives: Our Culture / Ourselves

Salvaging Human Society

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Dave Pollard

For many years, my writing about collapse centred around the “3 E’s” — economic, energy, and ecological collapse. They are of course connected. An economy cannot be maintained when severe weather events keep crashing the infrastructure everywhere, or when climate … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: The Go-for-Zero Strategy

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dave Pollard

This is the 14th in a series of articles on CoVid-19. I am not a medical expert, but have worked with epidemiologists and have some expertise in research, data analysis and statistics. I am producing these articles in the belief … Continue reading →

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Pollard’s Laws

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Dave Pollard

We will just keep going Until we drop And this is not a sad thing. All the leaves that ever lived Did the same. — Alice Walker (2020) (images of Alice Walker and Ursula Le Guin above CC-SA 2.0 from … Continue reading →

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Deliberately So

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image CC0 from pexels.com Lately I have been enjoying a series of podcasts from a young Toronto-based group called The Stoa. Some of their recent discussions have been about deliberative processes — the work we do, both personally and in … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: November 2020

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from Pikrepo, CC0 This poem is by the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Glück, written last month: SONG Leo Cruz makes the most beautiful white bowls; I think I must get some to you but … Continue reading →

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What’s the Matter with People?

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Dave Pollard

New Yorker illustration by David Hornsby On September 1, I published an article called What If Trump Wins Again? Two months later, it seems timely. So I re-read it today, and think I called it just about right. If the results … Continue reading →

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Still, Stand Still

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Dave Pollard

drawing by Canadian artist Pierre Surtes, from my own collection (this is NOT the image in the poster I refer to below, which seemingly exists now only in my memory) When I was seventeen, my gf brought me a poster … Continue reading →

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How to Speak Canayjun

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Dave Pollard

I often get ribbed when I visit “the States” because of how I apparently pronounce the word about, and because I actually do say eh, instead of huh. But I’m always surprised at the number of words and expressions that … Continue reading →

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Facing Collapse: Ten Important Questions for the 2020s

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Image of Ken Ward in 2016 Valve-Turners action, from the film The Reluctant Radical.  It has been a year of terrible news and terrible realizations. A year of justifiable outrage and bewildered astonishment. A year of dashed hopes, false expectations and … Continue reading →

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The Entanglement Hypothesis

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image adapted from Pixabay, CC0 This article is a bit of a wild ride. If its subject (the nature of consciousness) is not of interest, give it a wide berth. If you are interested, then since this is a particularly … Continue reading →

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