The Great Turning – A Retrospective from 2070
How We Stumbled Toward Wisdom While Dancing with Catastrophe
Topic archive
Musings on Ecology and Planetary Life
Through thought provoking articles, essays, and reflections, Richard shares his visionary insights, challenging us to reimagine the world we live in. This archive brings Richard's public writing back onto his own domain while preserving the original Substack and Patreon networks.
A Uniquely Human Predicament
Refusing to Step Into the Mechanical Future
Countering Nescience
The Case for Optimism as an Epistemology
Beyond the Ballot Box
The Case for a Post-Political Demos
The West's Misdiagnosed Collapse
It's Not The Boats; It's The Billionaires And The Banks
The Scent of Decay
Futures at the End of Industrial Economism
Land of the Free, of Cowboys, and Guns
The World's Sheriff Turned Outlaw
The Prestige Migration
How Genius Follows Gender – and Why That is Wasteful
Worlds in Unity
The choice between extinction and ecority
An Open Letter to Australia's Politicians
Today, I feel embarrassed.
When Sovereignty Becomes Negotiable
The Unravelling of Our Planetary Compact
Beyond the Point of No Return
Humanity's last stand against climate catastrophe
Broken and Beyond Repair
The Case for Dismantling Capitalism
Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Deliberate Ploys for Profit and Control
Slaves to the Kakistocracy
The Case for Stopping all the Flattery
Sliding Down A Spiral Of Fear
The Psychology of a Besieged Civilisation
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The Hames Report
Long-form essays and reflections on the future of everything. Read and support on SubstackPatreon / Published daily