The End of Everything

Global Industrial Civilisation is Collapsing Due to Ecological Overshoot

The End of Everything

Global industrial civilisation is collapsing, and there is nothing we can do to prevent it. This is not a call to give up and despair, but an attempt to look directly at the forces driving the decline, and to think clearly about what can still be done.

Collapse is not a single event. It’s a process: the inevitable contraction of a thermodynamically constrained, overshoot-driven system. My focus here is on making sense of that process across its ecological, political, cultural, and practical dimensions.

This Substack will cover:

• The biophysical limits shaping our future

• Overshoot as the meta-predicament of our time

• Why growth cannot be decoupled from energy and materials

• Cultural and epistemic shifts needed to live within limits

• Practical approaches to renewal, from permaculture to local resilience

If you’re looking for false reassurance, you won’t find it here. If you want to understand what’s happening and explore grounded ways of responding, you might.

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