A certain Pablo Servigne is revolutionizing the establishment with his collapsology.
Pablo Servigne was born in Versailles in 1978, he is a very young French author and lecturer, particularly interested in ecological transition, agroecology, collapsology, and collective resilience. (Resilience is the ability of a living being to adapt to a disturbing agent or an adverse state or situation when the disturbance to which he had been subjected has ceased.)
Together with another researcher named Raphaël Stevens, Pablo coined the concept of collapsology, with the following definition:
“A transdisciplinary exercise to study the collapse of industrial society and what could happen next, based on reason, critical thinking, intuition, and the most recognized scientific works”
Together with Raphaël Stevens, he published the book "How Everything Could Collapse: A Little Manual of Collapsology".
As all of you can imagine, collapsology is widely rejected by the establishment and the mainstream. And that's what makes it more interesting.
After having compiled an impressive amount of analytical work on the aggravation of global warming, and the depletion of energy, food, forest, and mineral resources, his thesis is clear: "Ecosystems are collapsing, the catastrophe has already begun for humanity.”, and it will speed up”
Collapsology is the new interdisciplinary science that brings together the studies, facts, data, prospects, and scenarios that demonstrate this catastrophe.
The manual explains in an entertaining way that today, the interconnection of the environmental, energy, demographic, and socio-economic crises causes growing systemic instabilities and threatens human survival. A vision that we are facing the possibility of a collapse of the global economy, of our societies, especially of industrial society, is becoming more and more frequent in scientific works.
A collapse does not mean in any way the end of the world, the apocalypse, or a specific catastrophe. Rather, it means the end of a cycle. The common people tend to believe that what is common for their daily life today will also be common tomorrow.
Subsidence, as defined by Servigne and Stevens in their manual, is a process by which basic needs (water, food, lodging, clothing, energy, etc.) can no longer be provided at a reasonable cost to a majority of the population, through the services framed in the law.
Regarding resilience, Servigne identifies 4 types of resilience: community resilience, global resilience, local resilience, and internal resilience. All have been tested with the issue of the Covid19 pandemic, and the results will be seen in the coming years.
According to Servigne, the individual will go from fear to anger, then to sadness and then there will be forces to push towards new possibilities of the rebirth of himself in the depths, and of his closest beings, friends, family, neighbors, etc. in a kind of approach to community life that starts from the most intimate to the local, the regional, then to the planetary and finally to the cosmos.
And here the theme of mutual aid and cooperation arises, by the way, typical features of anarchy.
In this case, the discussion, as is to be expected, enters into very rough terrain, because the homo industrialis tends to believe that industry and consumption are the ends of time and that there is nothing more to create because the human being is greedy by nature and wants to earn a lot of money and accumulate it.
Servigne, in another of his books "The Other Law of the Jungle" frontally attacks the myth of a world built on the basis of competition and the law of the strongest (commonly called social Darwinism. In a future post I will refer to the Darwinism as an erroneous theory to educate the masses in capitalism). Relations between species and between members of the same species are not reduced to competition and predation, but symbiosis and cooperation are the most important and key principles of all evolution.
An important clarification, Servigne is an ethologist and a deep researcher of the behavior of ants. In this book he cites numerous examples of cooperation in nature, such as lions hunting together, penguins gathering together to protect themselves from the cold, and trees redistributing nutrients to weaker ones through a fungus on their roots.
Servigne does not deny competition, which he considers essential to set limits, be it in a territory, be it in reproduction. But neither does he accept the myth that thanks to competition we have managed to evolve, a subject that fascinates Darwinians.
The guy kills himself for demonstrating that altruism and mutual aid are elements of social cohesion that develop spontaneously among human beings, especially in situations of natural disasters, seeking self-organization, coordination, and calm.
Servigne's problem with economics is that at the University economics is only studied based on "growth", and it cannot be that the only thing that exists is growth and that the rest is not economics.
The “peak oil” is, according to Servigne, a determining factor in the collapse of civilization. The oil peak is the moment of maximum oil extraction rate. It is a theoretical moment from which the amount of available oil is expected to decline irreversibly. The concept of peak oil is attributed to Marion King Hubbert (1903-1989), an American geologist and geophysicist, who formally presented it for the first time in 1956. This concept is based on extrapolating the known history of deposits in exploitation or that have been exploited to the world total. Oil fields reach their peak production very quickly, then reach a plateau, where production remains more or less constant, followed by a long decline.
Have we reached peak oil? This is a tricky question, for several reasons. On the one hand, safely certifying the oil peak can only be done once it has passed and currently, we can only try to estimate it based on trends in production and discovery of deposits.
On the other hand, what we usually call oil actually encompasses several categories of liquid hydrocarbons: conventional crude oil, extra-heavy crude, tar sands, light rock oil, etc., whose peak production should be calculated separately.
Although the number of discoveries has remained stable since the end of the s. XX, after having had its maximum in the 60s of the last century, the ERR (energy return rate) of these deposits is lower. This should not surprise us, since it is a finite, non-renewable resource, and it is reasonable to think that the largest and richest deposits were the first to be discovered. Some estimates indicate that we are probably currently experiencing the peak of conventional crude oil.
Peak production is a concept that can be applied to any non-renewable resource. In fact, in addition to the peak of oil production, there is also talk of other peaks of energy resources such as coal, uranium, or natural gas, some of which (fossil fuels) could also be close in time (less than 20 years). In short, the prospect of a decrease in net available energy is real.
Substituting oil and other fossil fuels for other energy sources is not a simple matter, since there are certain sectors (eg air transport, heavy transport by sea and road) whose electrification is not viable. In addition, these substitution attempts would require enormous amounts of energy and/or rare and scarce raw materials in their development.
There is a correlation between the real economy and the amount of energy available, and oil is deeply embedded in all economic sectors. Therefore, the decrease in the available quantity of oil and other fossil fuels, and therefore in the available energy, has implications on many levels in the global economic system. In addition, the control of energy and mineral resources are the main determining factors of the geostrategic agendas of the great powers.
The consequences of human activities, including climate change and the massive loss of biodiversity, are the great challenges that our species should be facing today.
There is an evident geopolitical destabilization due to the oil peak. And the entire civilization boasts an incredible dependence on oil. Oil dependency can be treated like any drug dependency. It is as if the human being had detached himself from nature, assuming that he/she is not part of it, and looks at it as an external observer.
It is very simple to look with critical thinking and with the premises of chaos theory at the functioning of nature and see how all species cooperate with each other in an immense programmed coordination experiment. On the other hand, what we have as a result of thinking only with the Darwinian evolutionary model and believing as a conceptual foundation that the human being is competitive by nature, is total dependence on a resource.
The covid19 pandemic and its extensive lockdowns clearly showed how the fragile economic system of big cities is collapsing almost completely, and that only the bailout of governments through the crazy and rampant printing of fiat money can save them, which is called with the euphemism of "stimulus"
The system that we ourselves have designed in the last 250 years has made us heteronomous, the opposite of autonomous. Heteronomous is someone subjected to a foreign power that prevents the free development of their nature. Nothing to add.
We are totally dependent on the monster that we have created as the old Eagles song from the 70s, Hotel California, said. And on top of that, this monster proves every day to be very fragile and vulnerable.
Servigne does not believe that human beings are selfish by nature, but rather that they learned to be selfish by the work and grace of the system that they themselves created. The culture of selfishness makes you immediately think that another person wants something that you have, and then a sinister loop is set up, and then from there, infinite iterations begin.
I will continue.
Thank you for reading! Decentralize yourselves as much as you can, and much more! Work for yourselves, not for others. When you work for someone else, they pay you what YOUR POSITION is worth, when you work for yourself, they pay you what YOU are worth. No one achieves financial independence by working as an employee. Live long and prosper!
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As usual, none of the things written in this post are financial advice and are not intended to replace personal research. My sole intention in writing this post is informative. Several of the things discussed here could be wrong, so in no way can this post be construed as financial advice, and in no way should it replace your own research.
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