What I can report to you for next year is a sensation. The sensation that we, as humankind, are going through a gate — the Gate of Wonder — mentioned by the Sumerian Priestess Enheduanna in her poem of more than 4000 years ago. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/through-th...

Sapete certamente che di recente Sachs è stato trattato a pesci in faccia da Carlo Calenda quando è apparso in TV a Piazzapulita. Questa storia dimostra che vale la regola che non dovreste mai giocare a scacchi con un piccione, e sapete tutti perché. open.substack.com/pub/ugobardi...

We don’t cease being amazed by the drama of mass extinctions. The five “big ones” and the many minor ones: Earth is not a quiet place; it is a continuous drama of mass deaths and recoveries. open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

Parole di speranza di Aurelio Peccei, adatte a questo difficile Natale 2025. open.substack.com/pub/ugobardi...

When the Good Emperor dispatched me here, I thought I had to carry out an unpleasant duty, but I was not happy about doing that, yet I thought I had to. And, instead, I found myself witnessing things that I never thought I would see. open.substack.com/pub/reptilia...

In 1984, Aurelio Peccei dictated this on his last day of life. It is a message from a man who deeply cared for humankind and for Earth’s ecosystem; the originator of the report “The Limits to Growth” that shook the world in 1972. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/aurelio-pe...

The Three Goddesses of Earth, Gaia, Guanyin, and Oya, celebrate the Winter solstice open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

The end of the writer's job. From roughly the 1920s to 1960s, mass literacy created an enormous market for written fiction. Now we are seeing something similar, but with a big difference. AI competes with human writers. AI is winning open.substack.com/pub/chimeras...

Nel campo della sostenibilità, la Cina ha fatto passi da gigante con il concetto di “civiltà ecologica” 生态文明 (shēngtài wénmíng) che è oggi una politica ufficiale del governo. L’idea è che la Natura e l’Economia umana devono mantenersi in armonia l’una con l’altra, open.substack.com/pub/ugobardi...

Anastassia Makarieva is known, among other things, for the concept of the "biotic pump," how forests create the rain that makes them (and us) live. This is the first of a series of video that I plan to have of informal presentations of scientists at my home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtFP...

Miracolo! Per una volta il governo ha semplificato le cose invece di complicarle. Ora si possono installare pannelli fotovoltaici quasi su qualunque tetto! www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/12/16/f...

In 2022, I published a series of posts that later became the basic structure of my book The Age of Exterminations (2024). Here is a post written more than three years ago, it turned out to be remarkably prophetic. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/three-year...

Tra le miriadi di cose che i dinosauri possono insegnarci, una riguarda la fossilizzazione, o ossificazione, della scienza. Sapete bene che la scienza è teoricamente aperta a nuove idee e nuovi punti di vista, ma nella pratica non lo è. open.substack.com/pub/ugobardi...

....stiamo rapidamente entrando nella fase della “rabbia” con la ricerca di qualcuno o qualcosa da incolpare per il disastro climatico. Sembrerebbe che i nostri leader non riescano a pensare ad altra soluzione che una bella guerra; nucleare, se possibile. www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/12/12/a...

Among the zillion things that dinosaurs can teach us, one is about the ossification of science (the term ‘ossification’ is especially suitable in this case!). open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

Perché la Germania sta crollando? In pratica, c’è una spiegazione chiara che non è difficile ricavare dai dati. ugobardi.substack.com/p/il-vero-mo...

For those of you who follow the saga of the Reptilian Scientific Officer, Meuianga Mera, here is a new installment where she discusses the extinction of the Dinosaurs reptilianstarfleet.substack.com/p/the-proces...

I don't know if Mr. Trump reads my posts on "The Seneca Effect." But he is acting as if he did! Russia and the United States are natural allies. Germany is the enemy of both. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/russia-and...

.... as soon as the Nazis took power in Germany, they started increasing military expenditures. There is nothing especially Nazi in this. It is a constant that states facing economic troubles try to solve them by using military force. It never works. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-real-r...

Guest post by Ian Sutton ....when it comes to climate change and other Age of Limits issues, we have to recognize that many models are predicting extreme social changes within the next few years. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. From the Tao Te Ching. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin livingearth.substack.com/p/the-verhul...

The Goddess Gaia engages in system dynamics modeling

We are the mask we wear, and we all wear one. Good or bad, the mask is a quick way to define what kind of person we are. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/harlequin-...

On the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, Nov 29, 1864 chimeras.substack.com/p/the-song-o...

When I wrote my book "Exterminations" (2024), I thought I had unearthed enough dark things to shock anyone. But there is always a road to worse.

....according to this model, the collapse of industrial production should start next year. If this is a good prediction, we are in for a rough ride, a VERY rough ride. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Most tasks that people perform in their jobs involve nothing more than moving things from one place to another. Physical entities (say, you are a mailman or a truck driver), or numbers/strings of letters (say, you are a clerk, or a bureaucrat). open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

One of the features of the Seneca Effect: it occurs only in complex systems, and its sudden effects are often caused by small perturbations whose effect is impossible to predict. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

When the Chinese set their minds to doing something, they usually do it, and they do it seriously. It’s not that there is no greenwashing in China, but the Chinese have understood one thing: they have to free themselves from fossil fuels senecaeffect.substack.com/p/from-shang...

The Goddess Gaia illustrates the concept of "ecological civilization, together with her Chinese colleague, the Goddess GuanYin

This is the center of the world. Honestly, the area doesn’t look very impressive in architectural terms, but I suppose the people who live there see it as their sweet home. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

With the Civil Wars of the 1st century BCE, the Roman Empire lost its expansion momentum and started its downward spiral. open.substack.com/pub/chimeras...

By exceeding 420 parts per million of CO₂ in the atmosphere, we have crossed an unprecedented threshold for our species, forcing our biology to operate in a chemical environment for which it is not designed. open.substack.com/pub/livingea...

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