Human geographer posting about climate, insurance, inequity, and the most challenging and controversial predicament of our times - global collapse. #InCollapse
University of Tasmania
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So excited to be launching my new book that I'm starting with my conclusions and working backwards in a series of posts!
I conclude by eschewing big political projects (is this wise?) and focusing on how collapse changes ideas of solidarity: "In collapse, solidarity is a ... 1/3
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Join us by submitting a paper for this special issue.
Call for papers: Futures of Global Catastrophic Risks & Societal Collapse
Guest editors: Danilo Brozović (University of Skövde); Florian Ulrich Jehn (FernUniversität in Hagen); Elena Kavanagh (University College Cork,); Kate Booth (University of Tasmania).
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Tasmania/Lutruwita is where I live. New research says it's the safest place in a global catastrophe. That’s a worry! In a globalised world, we’re not isolated, we are not self-sufficient, democracy is fragmented, and inequality is growing. @JustCollapse
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Collapse Camp 2026 has just wrapped up in Germany. A huge success by all accounts!
What could a Collapse Camp look like where you live? What would the theme be? What would be the priorities in the programme? How would you start organising?
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"After the tornado, I accepted my first food handout... I spent hours alongside strangers picking up debris, using tools lent by people standing on street corners, and eating food they brought us. I’d never experienced such a coming together"
#MutualAid
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An oldy but a goody: This tiny book of big ideas is about living and acting in hard times. It’s about dispelling the myth that unfolding and irreversible collapse means there is nothing left to do.
In collapse, there is more to do than ever before!
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An apocalypse looks like a dramatic world ending event - like Hollywood movies or religious ideas about the end of the world. Collapse, however, is a process playing out differently at different times in different places.
In collapse, we can act now for socio-ecological justice.
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This planetary boundaries diagram can be deceptive. The ‘safe operating zone’ depicted in green looks like its intact.
In reality, we now inhabit a world of orange and red. Only a tinge of green remains. There is no safe center to return to.
Don't just collapse, Just Collapse!
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“It's not easy to admit that so openly... The whole damned world scares me; thinking about the world isn't "interesting" anymore, it actively puts me in a bad mood.” @RealTadzioM
Talk collapse for a Just Collapse!
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We're heading for an uninsurable future!
Yet, most of the world has never had modern insurance. Most rely on networks of care and reciprocity - what David @Graeber_social called small 'c' communism.
In unfolding and irreversible global collapse, I call it a @JustCollapse.
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A/Prof Kate Booth retweeted
If collapse changes politics, what do we call it? In this new article, Kate Booth looks at post-anarchism as a way of articulating and acting for socio-ecological justice in decline and disaster.
Full article - Lutruwita Activist & Mutual Aid journal #1. lamacollective.bigcartel.com
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Is climate change the main driver for rising costs of insurance? The simple answer is no. Capitalism and endless growth are driving up the price of many types of insurance. In the three years to 2024, the global insurer sector recorded 'whooping' profits according to Allianz.
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Hosted by #JustCollapse.
Time zone: AEST (Australia)
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The idea of ‘surprise’ is attached to many kinds of collapses—the collapse of corporations, bridges, nation states, economies, natural systems. Yet so often there is information indicating a problem and people who know enough to see it coming.
Read more: link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Mutual Aid HEAT is an upcoming event in Germany, practicing mutual aid in stressful situations. This is the new frontier of left politics, because collapse changes politics and activism. #CollapseActivism
@RealTadzioM
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A/Prof Kate Booth retweeted
Just Collapse is back with a revitalised website!
Because collapse is inevitable, but justice is not.
The current change in focus follows the passing of co-founder Tristan Sykes. His legacy remains as you will see in scrolling back through the webpages.
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In my new book, I ask: what is collapse?
In a nutshell, this means that collapse is not necessarily a global apocalyptic future event. Instead, collapse is already taking place in small ways across the world and impacting different people and places in unique ways.
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So excited to be launching my new book that I'm starting with my conclusions and working backwards in a series of posts!
I conclude by eschewing big political projects (is this wise?) and focusing on how collapse changes ideas of solidarity: "In collapse, solidarity is a ... 1/3
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... collective salvage operation within the wreckage of worlds ending, picking up and through the pieces of broken networks and tenuous relations. These pathways through the rubble are well-trodden by those whose lives and livelihoods are disrupted—and collapsed—through ... 2/3
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... processes such as colonialism and capitalism. Hard won and partial though these may be, new solidaristic discourses and practices are refashioned from within what, and by whom, is in collapse." 3/3
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