Rupe
@rupe.bsky.social
Equal rights for all 10m species #overshoot, #collapse, #doomer #postdoom #climate, #geography, #sarcasm 🍉
Excellent, succinct summary of why #wasf by The Honest Sorcerer
#collapse
#overshoot
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/how-i-came...
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#overshoot
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/how-i-came...
How I Came To Believe That Civilization Is Unsustainable
A Practical Guide - 3rd Edition
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Excellent, succinct summary of why #wasf by The Honest Sorcerer
#collapse
#overshoot
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/how-i-came...
#collapse
#overshoot
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/how-i-came...
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Only Israelis could spend two years committing genocide and then demand everyone feel very, very sorry for them on the anniversary their genocide started.
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Only Israelis could spend two years committing genocide and then demand everyone feel very, very sorry for them on the anniversary their genocide started.
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Israel is a nation that exists because of violence, cultivates violence, teaches violence and raises war criminals. It is time for the world to stand up to Israel
October 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Israel is a nation that exists because of violence, cultivates violence, teaches violence and raises war criminals. It is time for the world to stand up to Israel
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BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
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Seeing the world as it is is neither cause for depression or for celebtration. Those responses are choices we make, choices that cannot alter reality but may allow those who choose radical honesty to live with themselves more fully.
September 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Seeing the world as it is is neither cause for depression or for celebtration. Those responses are choices we make, choices that cannot alter reality but may allow those who choose radical honesty to live with themselves more fully.
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56 million years ago, Earth had a carbon surge called the PETM. It drove 5–8 °C of warming, acidified oceans, wiped out marine life, and took 200,000 years to recover. Today we’re dumping CO₂ 10× faster. The planet will recover again—but humanity won’t.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
56 million years ago, Earth had a carbon surge called the PETM. It drove 5–8 °C of warming, acidified oceans, wiped out marine life, and took 200,000 years to recover. Today we’re dumping CO₂ 10× faster. The planet will recover again—but humanity won’t.
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Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 25, 2025 ~ Ocean acidification.
"A new report from the ... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been breached, one more than last year."
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
"A new report from the ... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been breached, one more than last year."
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone
24.09.2025 - A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been b...
www.pik-potsdam.de
September 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 25, 2025 ~ Ocean acidification.
"A new report from the ... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been breached, one more than last year."
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
"A new report from the ... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been breached, one more than last year."
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Excellent piece by Prof William E Rees about the Maximum Power Principle and our capacity for self (and collective) delusion.
#overshoot
#mpp
#collapse
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/fatal-delu...
#overshoot
#mpp
#collapse
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/fatal-delu...
Fatal delusions and the curse of ‘maximum power’
‘When spectacular success spells calamitous failure’
reeswilliame.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Excellent piece by Prof William E Rees about the Maximum Power Principle and our capacity for self (and collective) delusion.
#overshoot
#mpp
#collapse
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/fatal-delu...
#overshoot
#mpp
#collapse
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/fatal-delu...
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For those keeping track (and who isn't?), the planet is now at day 3 at 1.65C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
While MSM sells outrage 24/7 with Kimmel, Tylenol, Putin, Israel... collapse just doesn't make the cut. Do folks care about the end of everything anymore?
While MSM sells outrage 24/7 with Kimmel, Tylenol, Putin, Israel... collapse just doesn't make the cut. Do folks care about the end of everything anymore?
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For those keeping track (and who isn't?), the planet is now at day 3 at 1.65C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
While MSM sells outrage 24/7 with Kimmel, Tylenol, Putin, Israel... collapse just doesn't make the cut. Do folks care about the end of everything anymore?
While MSM sells outrage 24/7 with Kimmel, Tylenol, Putin, Israel... collapse just doesn't make the cut. Do folks care about the end of everything anymore?
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Eric is one of the few who tells it like it really is.
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
NEWSFLASH! Predicaments are NOT Problems!
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Eric is one of the few who tells it like it really is.
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
Eric is one of the few who tells it like it really is.
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
NEWSFLASH! Predicaments are NOT Problems!
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Eric is one of the few who tells it like it really is.
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
Predicaments ≠ problems!
#overshoot
#collapse
problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2025/09/news...
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I’m still waiting for a critique of “doomers” that isn’t dripping with strawman arguments, shallow optimism, and tone policing.
Grief and realism get dismissed as defeatism, while critics wrap their own emotional discomfort in moral superiority.
Grief and realism get dismissed as defeatism, while critics wrap their own emotional discomfort in moral superiority.
September 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’m still waiting for a critique of “doomers” that isn’t dripping with strawman arguments, shallow optimism, and tone policing.
Grief and realism get dismissed as defeatism, while critics wrap their own emotional discomfort in moral superiority.
Grief and realism get dismissed as defeatism, while critics wrap their own emotional discomfort in moral superiority.
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This is truly calamitous⬇️
A new World Bank report cites data from a forthcoming study: it shows the biomass of wild terrestrial mammals as being 2% of all mammals on earth.
A widely quoted 2018 study had shown that proportion as 4% (see next post).
The rest is us & our livestock.
openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...
A widely quoted 2018 study had shown that proportion as 4% (see next post).
The rest is us & our livestock.
openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...
September 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is truly calamitous⬇️
Good podcast on the history of the progress myth.
#overshoot
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...
#overshoot
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...
Progress: Humanity’s Worst Idea — Population Balance
For 5,000 years civilizations have told themselves stories of progress. Today, the progress myth has become humanity's most dangerous illusion. Samuel Miller McDonald, geographer and author of Progre...
www.populationbalance.org
September 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Good podcast on the history of the progress myth.
#overshoot
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...
#overshoot
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...
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The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer.
Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.
We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.
It will never reach you.
Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.
We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.
It will never reach you.
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer.
Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.
We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.
It will never reach you.
Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.
We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.
It will never reach you.
"The energy transition bet everything on renewables replacing fossil fuels and on the promise that growth could continue without much disruption to ordinary life. If ever there were a too-good-to-be-true story, that was it." Art Berman
www.artberman.com/blog/the-ene...
www.artberman.com/blog/the-ene...
The Energy Transition That Never Was | Art Berman
For more than two decades, governments, international agencies, and corporations have promoted the false hope of an “energy transition.” History shows otherwise. There are no examples of true transiti...
www.artberman.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"The energy transition bet everything on renewables replacing fossil fuels and on the promise that growth could continue without much disruption to ordinary life. If ever there were a too-good-to-be-true story, that was it." Art Berman
www.artberman.com/blog/the-ene...
www.artberman.com/blog/the-ene...
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Every generation accepts the world they inherit as “normal.” That’s shifting baseline syndrome. We forget how much has been lost—just like we accept our own aging bodies as the new normal compared to a few years ago.
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August 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Every generation accepts the world they inherit as “normal.” That’s shifting baseline syndrome. We forget how much has been lost—just like we accept our own aging bodies as the new normal compared to a few years ago.
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In this week’s Frankly, Nate unpacks some key blindspots of “the walrus movement”—a placeholder label that’s a gentle nod to those championing bold social and ecological ideals.
www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...
Key Blindspots of the “Walrus” Movement - The Great Simplification
In this week’s Frankly, Nate unpacks some key blindspots of “the walrus movement”—a placeholder label that's a gentle nod to those championing bold social and ecological ideals. While mostly well-inte...
www.thegreatsimplification.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In this week’s Frankly, Nate unpacks some key blindspots of “the walrus movement”—a placeholder label that’s a gentle nod to those championing bold social and ecological ideals.
www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...
I somehow missed that Prof William E Rees had joined Substack a couple of months ago. This piece about human cognitive deficiency is such a good counter to all the 'we just need to come together to solve this' hopium BS you get on this site.
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#collapse
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Twenty-four reasons why we are hooped
On human cognitive deficiency
substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I somehow missed that Prof William E Rees had joined Substack a couple of months ago. This piece about human cognitive deficiency is such a good counter to all the 'we just need to come together to solve this' hopium BS you get on this site.
#collapse
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#collapse
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Podcast recommendation with guest B, The Honest Sorcerer.
#overshoot
#collapse
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/the-...
#overshoot
#collapse
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/the-...
Complexity and Collapse — Population Balance
Modern techno-industrial civilization is running up against the law of diminishing returns - and societal collapse is inevitable. B, author of The Honest Sorcerer blog, reveals why our civilizationa...
www.populationbalance.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Podcast recommendation with guest B, The Honest Sorcerer.
#overshoot
#collapse
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/the-...
#overshoot
#collapse
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/the-...
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Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today:
"All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside..."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside..."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today:
"All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside..."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside..."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...