Retro Better Living Through Science to populate the Greenwashing Habitability Zone

by | Oct 17, 2025 | Artificial Everything, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, Climate Change, collapsology, deus ex machina, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Verschlimmbessern

Predatory ambitions: “the tactical setting of ambitious-looking but unattainable climate targets” — Ketan Joshi The Greenwashing Habitability Zone, as described by Ketan Joshi (in the first figure below), shows the usual suspects of discourses of...

Addressing Collapsology

by | Nov 22, 2024 | Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, collapsology, Communication, death, deep ecology, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Systems thinking

Everywhere we look, we see signs of climate denial, whether explicit as in people who are so traumatized by the idea of everything they care about coming crashing down that they outright refuse to entertain the possibility and consequences of ecological collapse...