The Entropic Mirage - Part 3: Uneven Geographies of the Green Shift17 January 2026·498 words·3 minsSustainability and Future Colonialism Environmental-Justice Global South Inequality Green Technology Geopolitics Sustainability Circular Economy Policy and Critique Systems ThinkingExamining the spatial inequalities of the green transition and how the Global North's 'sustainability' depends on the Global South's vulnerability.
The Entropic Mirage - Part 2: The Leaky Physics of the Closed Loop16 January 2026·497 words·3 minsSustainability and Future Circular-Economy Thermodynamics Recycling Entropy Chemistry Sustainability Sustainability Circular Economy Policy and Critique Systems ThinkingExamining how the promise of closed-loop recycling masks the reality of entropic loss and the rebound effect in battery production.
The Entropic Mirage: Unmasking the Lithium Loop15 January 2026·390 words·2 minsSustainability and Future Lithium Mining Circular-Economy Green Technology Colonialism Entropy Environmental-Justice Energy-Transition Sustainability Circular Economy Policy and Critique Systems ThinkingA critical exploration of the green energy transition's hidden costs, examining how lithium mining perpetuates colonial extraction while claiming sustainability.
The Entropic Mirage - Part 1: The Urban Mine and the Atacama Paradox15 January 2026·529 words·3 minsSustainability and Future Lithium Mining Sustainability Extraction Chile Urban Mining Environmental-Justice Sustainability Circular Economy Policy and Critique Systems ThinkingExploring how the promise of sustainable mining depends on rendering ecological and social costs invisible through 'entropic omissions.'
The Persistence of Power - Part 4: Why Abolishing Private Property Always Recreates Elites11 January 2026·720 words·4 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Private Property Elites Socialism Hierarchy Power Reorganization Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryAnalyzing why attempts to abolish private property fail to eliminate hierarchy, instead reorganizing it.
The Persistence of Power - Part 3: How Capitalism Stabilized Itself by Exporting Its Costs10 January 2026·750 words·4 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Capitalism Cost Displacement Globalization Inequality System Stabilization Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExploring how capitalism survived its internal crises by displacing costs geographically and socially.
The Persistence of Power - Part 2: Marx Was Right About Power—and Wrong About Its Cure9 January 2026·747 words·4 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Marx Capitalism Socialism Power Concentration Historical Analysis Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExamining Marx's accurate diagnosis of power concentration and why his proposed cure of abolishing private property failed.
The Persistence of Power: Class Struggle Beyond Ideology8 January 2026·143 words·1 minHuman Systems and Behavior Class Struggle Power Dynamics Capitalism Socialism Inequality Automation Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological History Political EconomyExamining how class struggle persists across different economic systems and ideologies, from capitalism to socialism to emerging AI-driven automation.
The Persistence of Power - Part 1: The Persistence of Class Struggle: A Structural, Not Ideological, Reality8 January 2026·1007 words·5 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Class Struggle Power Dynamics Inequality Structural Analysis Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExploring how class struggle endures as a structural property across different systems and ideologies.
The Mind of the Maker- Part 5: The Automation Paradox: How Boeing's MCAS System Exploited Pilot Trust5 January 2026·2013 words·10 minsSystems and Innovation Boeing 737 MAX Automation-Bias Skill-Decay MCAS-Failure Pilot-Training Human-Automation Systems Thinking Leadership and CrisisA system designed to save the plane. First it had to override the pilots' instincts. Then it killed them.