Another year is drawing to a close and it’s time to look back and see what we’ve done in 2013. There were 137 blog posts for 2013 with several notable guest essays by Brutus, Darbikrash, Scott Erickson, Kevin Moore(from a detailed comment he made) and ulvfugl. I’ve put out a couple author invitations for people whose comments caught my attention. One has already accepted but is sitting on the sidelines for the time being.
As calculated by wordpress for 2013, Collapse of Industrial Civilization was viewed about 200,000 times, and the top twelve essays were…
- Disillusioned in Dismayland
- Legion
- There Will Be No Miracles Here
- “For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.”
- A Crumbling Cultural Story in a Period of Near-Term Extinction
- It Only Happens in the Movies
- Questions for Abby Martin Interview
- How Big is Your Prison Cell?
- Energy Unicorns and Delusional Greenwashing of Industrial Civilization
- Drought, Fires and Tree Death: Ignoring Die-Offs Until It’s Our Own
- Runaway Climate Change in the Arctic is Just The Beginning
- Gulf of Despond
10 things we were reminded of in 2013?
- Industrial civilization is indeed transitory.
- Nuclear energy was a very bad idea spawned from the nuclear weapons program and sold to the public by government spin doctors.
- Industrial civilization is dependent on large inputs of fossil fuels and will continue to use them until it can’t due to diminishing EROEI and environmental pressures.
- Geoengineering is already being looked upon as the only solution to climate chaos.
- From the multiple climate feedback loops that have already been triggered, the eventual extinction of man is guaranteed.
- Capitalism is the predominant religion of the world. Capitalism is how the world works and to question it is blasphemy.
- Corporations and the wealthy elite will continue to use government as a tool for suppression as well as for looting the planet and fellow human beings.
- Capitalism feeds off overpopulation and is, to a great degree, dependent on it.
- Most falsely believe that technology (not energy) runs the world and that technology can and will solve all the world’s major problems.
- Most don’t realize that technology is a byproduct of available energy resources. Without energy, there is no technology.
Hyperlinked list of posts for 2013:
Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em. |
Gulf of Despond |
Questions for Abby Martin Interview |
Legion |
There Will Be No Miracles Here |
My Home is a Dystopia |
“For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.” |
Corporate Occupied Planet |
“There’s no stopping this train.” |
Living Double Lives |
Disillusioned in Dismayland |
Our Consumptive Madness |
Citizen 3-141-592-653-5 |
It Only Happens in the Movies |
History Has Gone Vertical |
Last Man on Earth |
How Big is Your Prison Cell? |
Adrift In A Wayward World |
The Conspiracy is Systemic and Legalized. |
Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #7 |
The First Great Culling |
Rules of the Game for Our Dystopian World |
China’s plans to cut coal pollution will unleash another environmental catastrophe instead |
A Crumbling Cultural Story in a Period of Near-Term Extinction |
Alice Friedemann’s Book Review of Lisa-ann Gershwin’s “Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean” |
A Future of Flood and Drought |
Satire Can’t Keep Up With Reality |
The Dysfunction of Man & The Persistence of Time |
A Vast Desert Coming Soon |
‘Friendly’ Dictators Are Welcome |
Building Inner Strength in Chaotic Times |
While I’m Still Here |
Rising Temperature + CO2 Levels = Exponential Rise of Methane |
Cascading failure + Liebig’s Law + Supply Chain Breakdown = Collapse of civilization |
Democracy is Finished |
Post-Apocalyptic Musings |
Techno-Optimism Vs. The Laws of Physics |
Energy Unicorns and Delusional Greenwashing of Industrial Civilization |
The Point of Focus |
Nothing Hides Under the Sun |
Despite slowdown, global coal remains a planet-destroying monster |
More Wildfires = More Warming = More Wildfires |
“Reality Can Be Far Worse Than What’s Predicted.” |
Misanthropy Redux |
The Silence of Extinction |
Reckless Terraforming of the Earth and ‘The End of More’ |
The CFR and Their Deranged Vision for Arctic Exploitation |
James Hansen and the Three Categories of the Runaway Greenhouse: Earth Uninhabitable for Humans at ~5,000 Gigatons Fossil Fuel Burned |
Industrializing and Capitalizing Our Way Into Extinction |
Building Castles in the Sand Under the Pall of Eco-Apocalypse |
In Search of … Solutions |
Wading through Man’s Toxic Environmental Soup |
Far From the Maddening Buzz |
Doomer |
We Are All Cogs in the Bone-Crushing Wheel of Capitalism |
Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #6 |
The Nature of Mankind |
Psychos at the Helm |
Surviving in the Devil’s Armpit |
Obama’s plan for the climate: Greenwash our way into oblivion |
Fascism 2.0 and Preparing for Energy/Climate Chaos |
How It All Ends!?! |
Another Dire Report from a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing |
Current Reality Vs. Utopian Visions of Technology and Wealth |
Creating Hell on Earth |
‘Peak Meat’ and Other Threats to the World’s Food Supply |
The Grim Future Seen From Current Headlines |
World CO2 Emissions Set New Record in 2012 at 31.6 Gigatons; On Current Path, World Locks in Dangerous, 2 Degree + Warming Before 2029 |
Guy McPherson and the Nemesis Effect at the ‘Age of Limits’ Conference, Part One |
Stations of the Crass |
Staring Into the Abyss |
Fire Up The Next Great Extinction Event! |
Devouring the ‘Seed Corn’ to Maintain the Present |
Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #5 |
The Superorganism of Capitalist Industrial Civilization |
Runaway Climate Change in the Arctic is Just The Beginning |
Geoengineering and Capitalism |
Climate Lag Time and Where We Are Headed |
John Michael Greer’s Cognitive Dissonance on Near-Term Extinction |
My Core Beliefs for this Website |
Reading the Tea Leaves (or Mega Billboards for the More Acutely Aware) |
Nate Hagens: What if the Future is Real? |
Permian Extinction Redux and an Update on Climate Tipping Points |
Emergency Climate Meeting: White House Officials Told Arctic Ocean Could Be Ice-Free Within Two Years |
Contemplating Near Term Extinction |
The Growth of Mega-Cities: Racing Towards Insanity |
Why There Won’t Be a Revolution |
The Intractable State of Things: Life in the Corporate State |
A Note on the Recent Terrorist Bombings |
Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #4 |
The Grist of Future Post-Apocalyptic Folklore |
A Review of the Collapse of Western Civilization |
Ruled By Hi-Tech Savages |
Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #3 |
A Matter of Survival: Breaking the Great Wall of Propaganda |
Mankind’s God Complex |
End-Stage Capitalism: Change or Die |
Cutting through the B.S. on Cyprus |
The Destroyer of Worlds |
The Bozos Amongst Us |
The Threat of Nuclear War in an Age of Eco-Collapse and Peak Everything |
Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #2 |
Fencing Off Nature To Ward Off Man |
“Your Ignorance Makes Me Ill and Angry” |
Peak Oil and Economic Contraction |
Chomsky Poses a Question |
At the Mercy of Capital Accumulation |
Wrecking the Earth: Planetary Tipping Points Refuted |
Eat the Rich |
Up Shit Creek in Water Wars, Sinkholes, and more AGW Feedback Loops |
The Artist’s Pen is Mightier than the Sword: Editorial Cartoons |
Mankind’s Infantilism and the Death of the Planet |
The Human Species: ‘Consummate Bullshitters’ |
Havoc-Wreaking Megadroughts in the Cards |
Protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline While Obama Golfs with Oil Executives |
Legislating Reality Out of Sight & Out of Mind
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Down by Law |
The Horror of a Disaster Carnival Cruise Vs. The Unfolding Eco-Apocalypse |
Discotheque Necronomicon |
They’re Laughing at Us… |
Burning Down the House |
The Violence and Coercion of the So-Called free Market (Guns, Slaves, & Steal) |
Please Stand By…Temporary Difficulties Beyond My Control. |
The Illusion of Money and the End of Nature |
Email from Professor Julian Cribb |
The Toxic Soup of Industrial Civilization |
The Cognitive Dissonance of the Corporate State on Climate Change |
Drought, Fires and Tree Death: Ignoring Die-Offs Until It’s Our Own |
Capitalism, Population Growth, & Climate Change |
Email Today from Professor Devon Peña |
“Two Midnights in a Jug” |
Earth to Humans: “Get Off Your Merry-Go-Round Ride to Extinction” |
More on the Corporate State’s Fiscal Spiked Dildo and the End of the World |
The Fiscal Spiked Dildo |
America: a Banana Republic with Nukes. |
Some Eco-Apocalypse Art |
Converting the Earth to Dollars |