This week's post is a review of Zeihan's Disunited Nations followed by an application of its methods to the nations of Australasia. I also got a chance to appear on Geopolitics and Empire podcast, so check out the link to the show in the post. https://open.substack.com/pub/zeroinputagriculture/p/repost-book-review-disunited-nations?

https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2024/04/10/shane-cheap-energy-mad-max/

Just launched The Long Forum- a monthly post on my writing substack that links all the best long form content from the internet over the last month. This is the best alternative to all the shallow algorithm driven crap on offer. Dig in deep and nourish your mind. https://open.substack.com/pub/haldanebdoyle/p/the-long-forum-march-2024?r=f45kp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

This week's post is a review of the book "Evolution: A View from the 21st Century", which catalogues the many non-random mechanisms of evolution revealed by recent studies.

How is this related to weird collapse? Well periods of upheaval typically increase the rate of speciation and niche switching, often driven through wide hybridisation. How can humans tap into this mechanism to navigate our way to weird futures?

https://open.substack.com/pub/zeroinputagriculture/p/book-review-evolution-a-view-from?r=f45kp&utm\_campaign=post&utm\_medium=web

I started writing a short novel (climate fiction), set in tropical Southeast Asia around the middle of the 21st century, well after the collapse of global civilization. It’s a bit utopian, definitely pretty optimistic, but also not entirely unrealistic from my perspective. I just published the first two chapters on my blog (available for free), and would be interested to hear some opinions and criticism. I subtitled the project “An immersive ethnography” to show that this is not regular sensationalist entertainment, but it’s supposed to provide a (semi-)realistic blueprint of what’s to come in the next few decades, and thus the story focuses on a lot of the details of the transition, and shows a bit more about the background as well.

Chapter One: https://animistsramblings.substack.com/p/people-of-rattan-vine-mountain

Chapter Two: https://animistsramblings.substack.com/p/people-of-rattan-vine-mountain-ii

(I hope this post is not considered “self-promotion,” but rest assured: I’m not trying to make money off anyone in this forum. If you’re interested in receiving the next chapters, DM me and I’ll put you on a mailing list.)

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional writer, not even a native speaker, so always keep that in mind when reading the story – and please don’t expect too much. As I say in the introduction, this is an experiment more than anything else.

I think this might be my shortest fiction to date, a mere 275 words, exploring a modest proposal from the government to make everyone happy while saving the medical system at the same time.

https://zeroinputagriculture.substack.com/p/swift-fiction-the-lottery-of-vice?sd=pf

An experimental post this week, exploring the potential for future domestication of reptiles. https://zeroinputagriculture.substack.com/p/novel-domestications-march-of-the?sd=pf