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What News Outlet Doesn’t Deny Reality?
ZeroHedge, the successful bad boy financial news reporting site, is shifting to a subscription model. I might subscribe if ZeroHedge knew what the fuck was going on in the world, but they’re as much...
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preptip: Save Your Sole
Bedwell Trail, Strathcona Park, British Columbia, July 2020 Walking in nature is one of the best things to do, because our genetic memory makes it very enjoyable, and it’s good for your body’s...
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Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson’s Society of Sloth?
Gail Tverberg made a comment today that rings true and motivated me to write about something I’ve been mulling for a while…...
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By William Rees – Climate change isn’t the problem, so what is?
Thanks to friend and retired blogger Gail Zawacki at Wit’s End for bringing this excellent new talk by professor William Rees to my attention. Rees discusses our severe state of ecological overshoot...
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Hot Money
I watched the new documentary Hot Money by Susan Kucera tonight. An intelligent world-wise father (General Wesley Clark) and his son discuss some of the problems we face with many smart participants....
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By Tim Garrett: Jevon’s Paradox: Why increasing energy efficiency will...
CO2 vs. COP Thank you to X for finding this new talk by professor Tim Garrett. Garrett has developed the most significant and useful theory for explaining the relationship between climate change and...
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By Jean-Marc Jancovici: Will technology save us from Climate Change?
Brilliant new talk by my favorite alien engineer, Jean-Marc Jancovici. If you only have 90 minutes to spare, and you want to understand everything that matters about how the world works, and the...
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Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on Vaccination Policy Risks
At the end of this post I will add periodic updates on the case trend in Israel so that we can determine whether Bossche’s claims are likely true or false. Synopsis Geert Vanden Bossche, a vaccine...
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Tom Murphy’s back, yay!
Physicist Tom Murphy is one of the brightest and most articulate people in the overshoot awareness space. A decade ago Murphy wrote frequently for a few years on his blog “Do the Math” where he...
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Crash Course Crash: On Making a Living from Overshoot Education
Chris Martenson yesterday unveiled what has been going on behind the scenes at Peak Prosperity. Major Announcement To The Community I salute Martenson’s honesty for explaining how difficult it has...
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Denial with Cortical Columns
I just finished the new book by Jeff Hawkins titled “A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence”. A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that...
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Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills It
Thanks to Sam Hopkins for bringing my attention to the work of Chris Clugston. I’m pretty well read in the overshoot space and I thought I knew all the important contributors. Somehow I missed Chris...
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How to Have a Difficult Conversation about Vaccination
I’ve decided to wait a little longer before being vaccinated, so that I can observe and weigh rapidly accumulating evidence for and against vaccination. I’m feeling social pressure to get vaccinated,...
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I haven’t had time to write a new essay, and I wanted a new post so newcomers don’t assume un-Denial.com has shifted its focus to Covid, which is a confusing space populated by crazy people assigning...
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Reality Blind by Nate Hagens and DJ White
Nate Hagens has published a new book on the predicament that fossil energy consumption and depletion, and our denial of this reality, have created for life on this planet. A skim suggests the book...
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Dr. David Martin – (Covid is) A Manufactured Illusion
Dr. David Martin has done a detailed review of the 73+ patents relevant to Covid and the facts are shocking and speak for themselves. I’m allergic to conspiracies but this one smells real to me....
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Descending Into Madness
I think our society is going mad because there are so many overshoot related problems converging at once that our inherited denial mechanism is overloaded, with no leaders who understand what’s going...
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Retreat to Sanity
I’m new to the work of Dr. Malcolm Kendrick but a skim of his blog suggests he has many wise things to say and has written several books that I intend to read. I was unable to find many videos with...
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Take us to DEFCON 1
The US military defines its Defense Readiness Condition (DEFCON) levels as follows: DEFCON 5 is normal readiness.DEFCON 4 is above normal readiness.DEFCON 3 is the air force ready to mobilize in 15...
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book review by AJ: Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion and the...
Thanks to AJ for contributing this book review. https://oneandonlyspaceship.com/ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-one-and-only-spaceship-eric-pianka/1133496721?ean=9781733030533 Publisher’s...
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Water is flowing uphill. Why?
El gato malo does more intelligent analysis in a week than the idiots in our governments do in a year. Today’s analysis suggests Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche was correct in predicting that applying a...
View ArticleA blank post with some contemporary dance…
Comments on the last post were getting too deep. Here’s a clean sheet for witty and wise comments enjoyed by the millions of un-Denial readers.
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By Andrew Nikiforuk: Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic...
Canadian author and journalist Andrew Nikiforuk addressed our overshoot reality on November 17, 2021 at the University of Victoria. It’s a brilliant must watch talk that touches on every important...
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By Bill Rees: On the Virtues of Self-Delusion—or maybe not!
Dr. Bill Rees, Professor Emeritus from the University of British Columbia, gave a presentation on our overshoot predicament earlier this month to a zoom meeting of the Canadian Association for the...
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Sidestepping Genetic Reality Denial by Manipulating Behavior for Overshoot...
It’s rare to encounter a new and constructive idea for addressing human overshoot that is not fatally flawed by a lack of understanding of either thermodynamic and geophysical constraints, or the...
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By Gaia Gardener: On Suffering
Buried in the comments of the last post we discussed human overshoot and what should be done about it. I proposed our goal should be to minimize suffering and that the best path to achieving this goal...
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What are our leaders doing?
What force is powerful enough to synchronize every leader in almost every country to do the wrong thing on almost every covid action without assuming every leader is evil and/or stupid?Why has no one...
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The Great Reset: An Alternate Theory
In my last post I speculated that covid was a plan orchestrated by the heads of the important central banks to provide cover for printing a gazillion dollars to head off an imminent economic collapse,...
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By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: My state of mind
Dire Evolutionary Timeline by Blu This is an essay from reader wis.dom project who describes his painful personal journey of connecting dots to achieve awareness of our overshoot predicament. I was...
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By Gaia Gardener: On Our Hall of Denial Mirrors
Today we have another guest post by a member of the un-Denial community, Gaia Gardener, who posted these thoughts on denial as a comment. I thought they were interesting enough to warrant promoting...
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By marromai: A Purpose in Life
Today we have a heartfelt post by marromai from Germany sharing his experience of becoming overshoot aware and how he deals with the knowledge. The essay was written in German and translated to...
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Two Different Perspectives – Same Conclusion: Modern Lifestyles Will End Soon
Dr. Berndt Warm’s Perspective Thanks to Marromai for finding this new paper by physicist Dr. Berndt Warm. Dr. Warm uses 5 different methods, 4 relying on economics, and 1 on thermodynamics, to predict...
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By Monk: Why not nuclear?
Today’s post is by frequent un-Denial visitor and friend Monk who does a wonderful job of explaining why nuclear energy is not a useful response to overshoot. With increasing energy prices and...
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What would you do?
The writer Endurance from the Weathering the Storm substack wrote an excellent essay today taking a deep dive into the history of Ukraine showing, as with covid, that nothing our western leaders are...
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By Ajit Varki: Why Men Are Destroying the Planet (Planet: Critical Interview)
Dr. Ajit Varki is a co-originator of the Mind Over Reality Transition (MORT) theory which explains why my species exists with its uniquely power intelligence, and why, despite this intelligence, is...
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GPT-4 Denies Reality Less Than Its Creator
Lex Fridman recently interviewed Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI which created GPT-4, a leading AI which you can try here. I listened to the 2.5 hour interview and my impression is that Altman is...
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By marromai: Energy, economy and the role of money
There was a nice surprise in my inbox this morning. Marromai, a frequent visitor from Germany, having tired of seeing the same un-Denial post for 10 weeks, wrote an excellent essay to freshen things...
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The Mortal Atheist on Varki’s MORT
Thanks to Dr. Ajit Varki for making me aware of this blog by the Mortal Atheist. It’s vanishingly rare to find anyone that writes about Varki’s MORT theory and that understands that broad awareness of...
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By Charles: Doomers’ Visions of the Future
Today’s guest post by Charles is an excellent primer on the diversity of beliefs held by many of the best minds that think about our overshoot predicament. Charles wisely reminds us that no one knows...
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By Karl North: An agroecological model for the end of the oil age
Today’s guest essay by Karl North discusses how agriculture practices must change as oil depletes and we no longer have the diesel for machines and the natural gas for fertilizer that underpins our...
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By Preston Howard: The Maximum Power Principle and Why It Underscores the...
Howard T. Odum: co-originator of Maximum Power Principle Today’s guest post by Preston Howard discusses an issue central to our overshoot predicament that is often ignored: The Maximum Power Principle...
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A Hero Retires: Citizens deserve what they deny
It's time to rest this account.It has been a hard road fighting against corrupt entities that I never knew existed to such an extent in the halls of power. And against the relentless propaganda that...
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By Karl North: After Collapse, What Next?
This essay was written last year by Karl North and published on his site here. Karl offers a hopeful vision for how we might organize ourselves and live a pleasant life after the collapse of...
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By marromai: Post Peak Everything
Today’s guest post by German speaking marromai contemplates the implications of peak everything caused by energy depletion and concludes the coming collapse will be rapid, harsh, and permanent. Other...
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Dr. Tom Murphy’s Infinite Growth with a Finite Brain
Physicist Dr. Tom Murphy is one of the most aware and smart people I know of. He’s also a wise man that cares about things that matter, and tries to set a good example with his lifestyle. I’ve...
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By Mike Roberts: Humans are a species
Today’s guest post is by un-Denial regular Mike Roberts. Mike has on several occasions commented that “humans are a species” and this best explains our overshoot predicament. In this essay Mike nicely...
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By Hideaway: Energy and Electricity
Today’s guest post by Hideaway reviews our ‘plan’ to transition off fossil energy, and shows it is in fact a mirage. Hideaway is a new force active at un-Denial and other sites that discuss energy and...
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By paqnation (aka Chris): My Final Act
Today’s guest essay by paqnation (aka Chris) tackles a challenging topic with deep ties to Dr. Ajit Varki’s MORT theory which inspires un-Denial.com. Chris discusses yet another strange behavior that...
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By Steve Carrow: What would a wise community do?
Today’s guest post by Steve Carrow compliments an essay I wrote 8 years ago on what would a wise society do about overshoot. Steve takes a local perspective and discusses what a wise community and...
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Radical Reality (by Hideaway) and Radical Acceptance (by B)
Today’s post includes a recent sobering comment on overshoot reality by un-Denial regular Hideaway that I thought deserved more visibility, and a new essay on acceptance by B, who has recently emerged...
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