Karl North Eco-Intelligence

A region of distinction in decline French Catalonians commonly call their region Roussillon, but as one ascends from the coastal plain that stretches from the city of Narbonne to the Spanish bord...

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The goals of this essay are two. First, I will expand the critique of the ways we do science that I made in premise #3 of  An agroecological model for the end of the oil age. My hope is to raise...

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Introduction Modern civilization is urban down to its rural roots, hates nature, ignores nature, depends on nature, destroys nature, yet expects nature to keep on giving. Now nature is striking b...

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The best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray - from a Scots poem by Robert Burns The highest act of love in a criminally insane society is disobedience. – John Schumacher Bouts of collecti...

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After a successful 500-year run, why is Western hegemony slowly falling apart, and moreover, as Pogo famously said, why is it that “the enemy is us”? This essay will explore a complex of root...

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When global empires start to fall apart, the structure of interdependent elements accumulated over the years imparts an inertia that appears to sustain them for a while past their normal collapse...

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We are seeing a planet-wide shift in geopolitical ascendency that is political, economic and cultural, and is unprecedented in the last five hundred years. It is a slow process that one could bes...

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As I have written earlier in this series, modern civilization has reached an end game. I am defining modernity as a form of civilization that began in the West – let’s call it EurAnglia – 5...

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As the old Teutonic pagan rite approaches, we sally forth, hatchet in hand, seeking evergreens to deck the halls. O Tannenbaum! Conveniently, our mile-long track to the woodlot snakes through te...

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Historical studies of civilizational collapse reveal a pattern that occurs at some point in the collapse process – ruling elites begin to lose control, and policy disagreements arise. In this e...

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