Archive - Our Crises in Context

living with collapse | 4. How I'm Strategizing

Last week I shared this diagram of how a narrative can influence behavior, and how the failure to update your model of how-things-work could result in a…

Apr 7

March 2026

living with collapse | 3. Identity & Attunement

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a lockdown...

Mar 31

living with collapse | 2. "Hope" I Can Get Behind

Mar 24

living with collapse | 1. Jumping Ship

THIS IS YOUR SHIP CAPTAIN CASSANDRA

Mar 17

Let's eat cake! | 5. Farm Stats Overview

Last week’s topic was carrying capacity and I added all kinds of caveats: An ecosystem’s potential caloric value is, in part, a function of your knowing…

Mar 10

Let's eat cake! | 4. Carrying Capacity and "Community Resilience"

The Reindeer of St.

Mar 3

February 2026

Let's eat cake! | 3. Farms as doom victims

Last week I wrote about farming as doom-inflictor: How it’s ending other things.

Feb 24

Let's eat cake! | 2. Farms as doom-inflictors

NO FARMS NO FOOD-?

Feb 17

Let's eat cake! | 1. Refresher on Life's Requirements

Welcome to a new series!

Feb 10

(apo)calyptic voices | 5. Maladaptive Umwelt Construction

Feb 3

January 2026

(apo)calyptic voices | 4. The "Gets It" Divide

This series covers instances where people use terms like “collapse” and “predicament” but don’t grasp (or, therefore, convey) the full, accurate…

Jan 27

(apo)calyptic voices | 3. Unfit Prophets

Jason Bradford has “A Species-level Taxonomic Treatment of the Phalse Prophets with Hypotheses on their Origin and Evolution” and I’ve written my own…

Jan 20