I’m Planetsick, And I Think You Might Be Too — I want to discuss something with you. Gently, though, very gently. A feeling. Just a feeling, I guess. But one like a hammer. I think it’s falling on all of us. So…if it is…gently. I don’t know where to begin, really. Sometimes I discuss great and urgent messages with you…

The Great Gaslighting, or How the Far Right Ripped Our Societies Apart — You’ve met them. You see them everywhere. The dumb, toxic bastard. Covid’s the pandemic, but they’re like the plague of this age. I keep thinking of that weird scene from some kind of horror-comedy movie that happened in real life: the planeloads of people who took off their masks, whooping…

How Long Will the Dark Age That’s Falling Last? — There’s a sobering thought which keeps occurring to me these days. It’s not meant to scare or frighten you. It’s something that I reflect on. It goes like this. We’re the last of our kind. Human beings have been around for 300,000 years. We emerged as the ice melted. And…

We’re Crossing the Threshold of Survivability — And There’s No Going Back — “Why do you think people are a little freaked out by what I’m talking about these days?” I was asking my kid sis. She laughed. “You’re basically telling them it’s the end of the world?” It was the night of the eclipse. A red moon illuminated the sky. 300,000 years…

Our Societies Create Too Many Losers — And Almost No Winners — The massacre in Buffalo. A kid, a young man, a self-described fascist stormed into a market — and shot ten people dead. More injured. It’s a tiny, horrific example of a disturbing trend. Fascism is seducing the world. This example, as awful as it is, is also illuminating. Why is…

Why the Future Keeps Turning Out to Be the Past Repeating Itself — Around this time of year, I reflect. On what I’ve been thinking and writing and speaking about. And this year, I find myself in a strange position. My writing, these days, is often called apocalyptic. It’s not meant kindly. You know what it really means — the subtext. Alarmist! Fainting…

The Far Right Is Seizing Control — And Americans Are Like Deer in the Headlights — What’s happening to America? Right about now, the prevailing sentiment for most sane Americans is shock. Is this really what’s happening to our society? Our democracy? Let me say it again. Americans are in shock. …

The Far Right Is Poisoning Our Societies With Hate and Violence — By now, you’ve heard. A fascist walked into a grocery store and committed a massacre. He seems to have killed ten people because of the color of their skin, and wounded more. A cop was killed, trying to defend them. The fascist wore body armor and carried a machine gun…

Why We’re Entering a Dark Age Between Civilizations — See that chart above? That’s the Keeling Curve. It shows the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As you can see, it shows no signs of slowing down in any way whatsoever. The problem is that even when it does, there will be an overshoot of years, maybe even…