In the past, we had rituals that helped us change, transform ourselves mentally in order to meet new challenges and deal with the unknown. My fear today, when rituals have lost their transformative power. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/a-voice-cr...

The chemical poisoning caused by CO2 could be the ultimate Seneca cliff for humankind climateplaybook.substack.com/p/thanks-ugo...

Sometimes, I dream of a mystic revelation in which the Goddess would appear to me and tell me, “Ugo, I am granting you one wish of your choice.” I would answer, “Most exalted daughter of the Moon, take me to the Jurassic and show me a brachiosaur, alive.” livingearth.substack.com/p/the-longne...

Why "will be"? They are already

A guest post by Lukas Fierz, who discusses the decline in human testosterone and correlates it to chemical pollution. He concludes that humans may not be able to reproduce themselves anymore before the end of the 21st century. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

The saga of Meuianga Mera continues. One of the Naked Apes who goes under the name of Muosk or something like that is planning to expand into space. And you should not forget our Merseian enemies. They could link with these Naked Apes and create trouble for us. open.substack.com/pub/reptilia...

As usual, history rhymes. Just replace “Guano” with “Oil” and we are moving exactly in the same direction, including attempts to seize the remaining resources by military means. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/seneca-col...

The Goddess Gaia knows that CO2 is a poison. But her human children refuse to believe that

One year ago, I published on Amazon my book titled “Exterminations.” It has sold nearly 500 copies so far, with several favorable reviews. The Kindle edition is at present #314 out of the more than 70,000 books in the “International and World Politics” open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Wasn't Ozempic supposed to solve the problem?

The bottom line is that, no, more CO2 in the atmosphere is not good for your health. However, it may be that for short times, and in some specific conditions, a modest increase in CO2 in your blood could be helpful. livingearth.substack.com/p/is-co2-goo...

Is the war really over? I don’t know, nobody knows, but we can hope it is. Two years of madness in Palestine. Now we are left with rubble, a devastated land, destroyed buildings, ruined lives, wounded bodies, and wounded souls. And the big question, why? senecaeffect.substack.com/p/is-it-over...

I wonder what it would be to enter one of those small shops, buy a coke or something like that, and ask people there, “do you know you are at the population centroid of the Afro-Eurasian bloc?” Who knows? Maybe they know. open.substack.com/pub/chimeras...

The Goddess Gaia kisses her tyrannosaurus friend

Come venditore di emozioni, non c’è dubbio che Trump sia un vero maestro. Nel suo discorso, fate caso al ritmo, alle ripetizioni, alla struttura delle frasi. E’ un rituale dove contano le ripetizioni. Trump è un incantatore nato. www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/10/07/t...

Trump’s speech is not high literature, but, as a political speech, it is extremely effective. It is disjointed, chaotic, repetitive, but it has a certain hypnotic quality that you can’t miss. It is like chanting a ritual. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/trump-the-...

Just like the Goddess Gaia, I always loved dinosaurs, and one of my juvenile dreams was to become a palaeontologist. And, finally, this year I had the satisfaction of writing a scientific paper on the Mesozoic, the age of dinosaurs. open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

Manus is a good program for data treatment and analysis. But its tendency to hallucinate sometimes drives me crazy. At times, I can’t avoid insulting it; but this time maybe I exaggerated, and then I felt I needed to apologize. chimeras.substack.com/publish/post...

Davis' results on CO2 and extinctions confirmed: we ARE asphyxiating ourselves with CO2. And the beauty of the story is that plenty of people are happy about that: you know, the bunch of idiots who are convinced that CO2 is good because it is "food for plants" open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

The ecosystem, whatever it is that makes people dumb, must affect the whole of it. But how? When? In which terms? At nearly four am, I walk out of the door of my hotel. I think I look like a Dinosaur from Disney’s Fantasia movie, stumbling on toward extinction. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Suddenly, the abyss is opening in front of me. Everything clicks into the right places. The geosphere doesn’t care about the biosphere’s metabolism, but periodically, it spews out carbon in one of those disastrous events called the “large igneous provinces.” livingearth.substack.com/p/co2-death-...

Un post su X che a prima vista sembra una bufalata. E invece, no. Fra le altre cose, mi sa che le nostre intelligenze artificiali se ne andranno nello spazio solo perché non ci sopportano più da quanto siamo rimbecilliti! open.substack.com/pub/elettric...

more than one thousand visualizations in 10 days!!!

A certain movement about my post on CO2 as a pollutant is starting to appear!!

Our paper on CO2 as a pollutant was published in July in the Journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Last week, I published another paper on a related subject on Qeios www.qeios.com/read/IKNUZU. A summary is available here. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/co2-bringe...

The final slide of my talk, tomorrow, at the Conference of the World Academy of Art and Science for sustainability in Belgrade

Allora la carestia ampliò il suo corso e divorò il popolo per intere case e famiglie; Un profondo silenzio e una sorta di notte mortale avevano avvolto la città. (Flavio Giuseppe, "De Bello Judaico") open.substack.com/pub/ugobardi...

Natural selection knows no such thing as “manifest destiny,” it only selects what works. But why do we see a long-term trend toward higher encephalization in Earth's ecosystem? open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

Some ape scientists who call themselves “economists” have very limited mental capacities. Nevertheless, they stumbled into some interesting concepts. reptilianstarfleet.substack.com/p/those-stra...

Caution: you may not really want to read this post. A deep silence also, and a kind of deadly night, had seized upon the city. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/exterminat...

A recent article which appeared on “The National Science Review” provides another example of the biochemical effects of CO2 on Earth's metabolism. It is clear that CO2 is nothing like the benign "food for plants" that they are trying to have us believe. livingearth.substack.com/p/moths-r-us

Yesterday, my train was some 25 minutes late, and I spent most of that time staring at the woman’s face in the image, mesmerized. open.substack.com/pub/chimeras...

The world without Anastassia Makarieva would be a few notches worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWdX...

Dear colleagues, the session that the Club of Rome organized at the World Resource Forum last week is having strong reverberations in the memesphere. This article (in Spanish) clearly explains the risks we are taking. www.epe.es/es/tendencia...

Insomma, finché non ritorna di moda ragionare sui fatti, si ricorre sempre a dire che se non sei d’accordo con me, vuol dire che sei un amico di Putin. E buonanotte al dibattito. open.substack.com/pub/elettric...

But, by now, the collapse of the European Union is no longer a question of “if,” but of “when.” A united Europe was a beautiful dream, but it has turned into a nightmare. It will be a rude awakening. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/europe-at-...

There is a reason why people don't believe the media anymore. Look carefully at this graph!

Another example of the biochemical effects of CO2 on Earth's metabolism. Nothing like the benign "food for plants" that they are trying to have us believe. Maybe you don't care for moths, but it is just one example of how CO2 disrupts metabolic processes. academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-...

Real time control of metabolism requires a central processor unit (CPU), a metabolic unit that is programmed with the appropriate homeostatic set point. In the simplest sense, this CPU is similar to a central thermostat in a house. open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

We’ve been here before: radiation, asbestos, lead in gasoline. They all seemed “invisible” or “manageable” — until they became disasters. Are we repeating the same mistake with CO₂ and plastic? Anastasiia Tsybuliak open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Gli alberi assorbono il CO2, giusto? Quindi, basta che ne piantiamo tantissimi e il problema del riscaldamento globale si risolve. Ma ben presto, dovremmo cominciare a demolire le case per far posto agli alberi. www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/28/r...

I can understand how people who feel that they have been cheated by science so badly with the story of the COVID pandemic that they have lost all their trust in it. But why did that happen? open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

IPut simply, too much CO2 can kill us all, and not just because of global warming. Simply by altering the metabolic processes that bring oxygen to human brains, it may be enough to put us out of the survival game. open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

Paradoxically, an element that favors War Capitalism over Consumer Capitalism is the regulations imposed on the consumer economy with the idea of reducing pollution, senecaeffect.substack.com/p/putin-and-...

Tutta colpa dei rettiliani! www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/18/t...

The US and Russia never fought a war against each other, except for a minor episode immediately after the end of World War I. During the conflicts involving Russia of the past centuries, the US was either neutral, but helping Russia, or an active ally. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/russia-and...

Ma se gli alberi consumano tanta acqua, com’è possibile che non la finiscano, prima o poi? Non succede perché in natura vale la regola che chi non ricicla muore. Gli alberi riciclano i liquidi che evaporano per mezzo del meccanismo della “pompa biotica” www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/09/a...

Your presence also seals a long-standing friendship between Russian and Italian culture. A connection that has always united thought and beauty, rigor and vision, in a shared search for meaning. open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

Note the “decoupling” of the GDP data from the electricity generation data. My interpretation is that the GDP is being “adjusted” year after year (“hedonic factors” anyone?) in order to show a growth that, in the real world, doesn’t exist. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/collapsing...