“I’d love to be wrong about near-term human extinction, not to mention habitat loss for the many non-human species this culture gleefully drives to extinction. I’d love to believe the Sixth Mass Extinction is a myth. But I know better.” – Dr. Guy McPherson
If you chose the red pill, eschew the mainstream media and get your news online from a mix of independent sources inside and outside the US/UK, you probably don’t have a lot of close personal friends. Smile. Not to belabor the point or anything, but you probably also use trigger words like “facts,” “reality,” “logical,” or “capitalism”, consider yourself smarter than your phone, left or never used Facebook, and have been known to kill a conversation at twenty paces.
All of which makes you most welcome here at my column. Articles, book reviews and rants – mine and others’ – celebrate the living planet, excoriate the psychopaths purposefully murdering it for profit, and grieve the passing of life as we’ve known it. It’s a commentary about the wound following that single sentence in a chance conversation that slams the glass door between us and those still living in the capitalist fantasy world. It’s about the times we’re living through at The End of Life As We’ve Known It.
Getting Out of Line
- 18 July 2023A Guide for Teachers Redefining Themselves and Their Profession by Caren Black This book identifies the classroom methodologies, curriculum and personal professional growth that are essential for...
Quest for Alternatives – Staying Warm
- 11 December 2022Sustainable Viability Staying “warm” in terms pertaining to this website means staying viable. Thanks to all those who have already contributed, we are halfway to our annual goal. These are not...
Not Playing Takes Effort...and Money
- 19 November 2022" The only winning move is not to play ." It's one of the most quoted lines in alt media and one we're fond of reiterating. Not playing requires alternatives, as in - you know - change.
Hello, Collapse
- 18 November 2022Tensions, depression, anxiety, over-consuming (think food), addictions, sleep disorders, suppressed anger. These are inner, often unrecognized, simmering beneath the surface, causing us to run...
Thinking, Living, Eating Seasonally
- 18 November 2022First Fall fire in the woodstove. First day to pull out the long johns and layer up. After an unusually warm and dry early Autumn, the rains came today. I brought in what will be the last...
A Thanksgiving Alternative for Which We’re Still Grateful
- 18 November 2022We’d moved the year before, out of state and out of culture. Thanksgiving was shaping up as friends going out of town to be with relatives, so we’d planned a quiet weekend at our homestead.
The Great Divide
- 11 September 2022Twenty-one years ago our nation split in two, cleft by a narrative. At first the fissure seemed a crack, repairable over time. Instead it grew. And, as it grew more and more people, some tentatively...
Special Edition: Got Food?
- 15 June 2022Western nations have sanctioned themselves into major food, fuel and fertilizer crises, while their biolabs release bioengineered insects and seeds that threaten existing crops and their central...
Basic Food Security 101
- 13 June 2022Let's begin with three basics: food growing, food storing, and seeds. And, tempting as it is to view these three sequentially, it's good to keep all three in mind simultaneously because they are...
Special Edition: Wake Up and Smell the Napalm
- 09 May 2022We have the ability to ignore information when we don’t want to face it. A subconscious defense mechanism filters information that the subconscious has already processed but the conscious is not...
Some Things Have Not Yet Changed
- 15 April 2022Your Guide to the Battle of Culloden In April 1746, overtaken by a British army twice their strength, the Highlanders gave battle on Culloden Moor near Inverness. Mercilessly cannonaded, they...
Examining "Environmental Thresholds for Mass-Extinction Events"
- 09 February 2022Two degrees. The maxim synonymous with climate change for nearly fifty years. " Gotta keep temperatures within 2 o of baseline!" OK. What's baseline? " Pre-industrial levels. " OK. What is the date...
Protests Don't Work
- 30 November 2021Employees may protest about extra workloads or off-the-clock hours. Citizens protest about taxes and legislation. Children protest against going to bed, and that really is more to the point. People...
Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross
- 09 January 2021Update: The greatest dangers we now face put our preparedness, self-reliance and self-sufficiency to the test. They require our grasp of the whole rather than parts if we are to comprehend not what...
Another Failure of Imagination?
- 21 November 2020Masks! Masks! Masks! Russia! Russia! Russia! China! China! China! Vaccines, “lockdowns”, civil liberties, jobs, schools, the economy, the election! Mmmaaasks!! Global temperatures rise exponentially...
Out Like a Lion
- 03 March 2020Image: Christine Sponchia, Pixabay In the Midwestern US where I grew up, the beginning of March brought farmers’ folk wisdom: If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb; if it arrives...
Exploring the "Attainable-Sustainable"
- 28 September 2019Many of us have practiced self-reliance on some type of homestead , or farmed, grown food, lived simply, escaped terminal dependency. Yet, no doubt many others have not. As Derrick Jensen puts it:...
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Excerpt: The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Behavioural Change Project “To Change Everything” [Volume II, Act V]
- 22 September 2019Image: Prawny, Pixabay , modified TEOLAWKI TIMES' INTRODUCTION: Since Naomi Klein changed everything (Didn't you notice?), we've witnessed liberalism transmogrified to neo-fascism as public...
The Teacher and the Unteachable
- 06 June 2019Image by Ulrike Leone from Pixabay Humans have never, ever been more in need of acute neocortical functioning. I fear it is no coincidence that our controlled and censored western culture precludes...
Rethinking Calendars and Seasons
- 31 December 2018Image: OpenClipart-Vectors , Clker-Free-Vector , Pixabay CCO, adapted As I write this, the entire world prepares to welcome the year 2019 CE. And, thus will begin another cycle of 31-28-31-30-31 –...
Sleuthing for Truth: How I Vet the Articles We Post
- 01 October 2018Image: GraphicMama-team, Pixabay CCO Today, “news” is a morass. Much of it – the portion termed “mainstream” or “real” – is deliberately designed to scare, ensnare, overwhelm, rile, titillate,...
Repatriation of the Economic Hit Man
- 26 September 2018Image: Stux, Pixabay CCO Basically, the Global Oligarchic Terrorists (GOTs), send a privately contracted Economic Hit Man (EHM) into a country which is living just fine, thank you very much, albeit...
Is Another World Still Possible?
- 26 September 2018Image: Geralt, Pixabay CCO Take a deep breath. Relax. Stop worrying. We’re off the hook. Nothing we need to do at this late date except make the very best of every day. Everything's out of our hands...