Peak Everything

Where is the Gray Champion?

I see plenty of prophets, but nobody astride Shadowfax, rearing on a hilltop.

Encountering Discontinuity on a Down Escalator

What if the transition to renewables fails?

Compound Disinterest

The capital of Mississippi has no drinking water. This is not a freak occurrence…

The Great Pause Week 80: Getting to Littleness

What do Finland, Iceland and Estonia have in common, apart from less sunlight…

The Great Pause Week 65: New Hope Creek Journal, Part Two — Shorting the Future

If a fox spends more…

The Great Pause Week 56: The Upside of Work

We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.
 — expression in the Soviet era