Raphaël Stevens

the finitude of our Civilization: between limits and borders

We often hear that it is impossible to have infinite growth in a finite world. A finite world? But where are these famous limits? And what are they? To understand this, it is necessary to distinguish between limits...

Will our world soon look like MAD MAX?

There's no need to hide from it or beat around the bush. To dive into the theme of collapse is to inevitably address the issue of violence. Will the future necessarily be ultraviolent? Is it not possible to consider...

Views on dismantling

Nuclear decommissioning: who pays the bill and how? The operator of a wind farm will not be issued an environmental permit if it cannot demonstrate how it will convert the site back to a green field after the permit...

MILLIONAIRES PREPARE FOR THE WORST

It is no longer a secret: the ultra-rich are looking to protect themselves from the coming collapse. They are the first to be informed when finance falters, but they are also the first to run away when everything...

LESSONS FROM THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR (II): DEMOGRAPHY

What does history teach us about the dynamics of collapse? Almost 30 years ago, the Soviet Union was falling apart. In our previous column, we saw, contrary to popular belief, that wildlife declined during the decade...

« THE IMAGINARY OF DISCONNECTION

Who hasn't felt helpless at the mere thought of leaving this industrial mega-machine? To break definitively with our technological prostheses and to live differently. n "technocratic solutionism" seems more than...

BECOME AWARE OF A POSSIBLE COLLAPSE

To grasp the magnitude of this notion of collapse, one must go through several steps. Awareness is gradual and usually irreversible... The activity of a collapsologist is not easy. Canadian blogger Paul Chefurka...

WHEN DISASTERS MAKE YOU LOSE YOUR HEAD

Following natural or industrial disasters, the media usually take stock of the human losses and quantify the material damage. But many survivors suffer from other after-effects that persist long after the disaster... Whether...