A Grand Unified Theory of Doom
Adrian LambertUnderstanding the rise and fall of industrial civilisation - and what comes next.
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All Civilisations Fall. Ours is Special Though, Obviously.
1. Introduction: “If You’re Going to Talk About Overshoot for an Hour, at Least Start Cooking Dinner”
I am a collapse-aware human, or what today’s urban youth would call a “doomer”.
Whether I’m pondering the heat death of the universe (m...
El Niño Lands on a System Already Collapsing
Editor’s note: El Niño is arriving with unusual force. Here, I look at where the impacts are likely to land hardest, why the timing matters, and what practical steps we can take as the system loses more of its resilience.
1. Introduction...
Cities are Intensive Livestock Systems, and Humans are the Cattle
Chapter 1: The City Is Not an Escape from Ecology
We do not think of ourselves as livestock - not the way we think of pigs, sheep or cows. But perhaps we should, and the place to start is where most of us live.
Cities are the ecological e...
Masked Twice: Neurodivergent Advocacy in a Collapsing Society
Editor’s note: This essay follows a presentation I gave to the Climate Psychology Alliance on neurodivergence and collapse awareness. It builds on two earlier essays; Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others and If Collapse Is Inevi...
Everyone is Playing Correctly
Editor’s note: This essay uses game theory to explain collapse: not as one event, one failed leader, or one isolated crisis, but as the outcome of households, firms, governments and states making rational choices inside a system under tight...
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Complex systems analyst based in the UK. I study and practise permaculture and write about ecological overshoot, collapse, and the lived experience of industrial decline.
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