Just Collapse

Just Collapse is back with a revitalised website! Because collapse is inevitable, but justice is not. The current change in focus follows the passing of co-founder Tristan Sykes in early 2026. Tristan's legacy remains as you will see when you scroll back through the webpages. justcollapse.org

Call for papers: Futures of Global Catastrophic Risks & Societal Collapse Guest editors: Danilo Brozović (University of Skövde); Florian Ulrich Jehn (FernUniversität in Hagen); Elena Kavanagh (University College Cork); Kate Booth (University of Tasmania). www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Instead of fantasising about impossible futures and fragile places for escape, act now for a Just Collapse!

Collapse Camp 2026 has just wrapped up in Germany. A huge success by all accounts! What could a Collapse Camp look like where you live? What would the theme be? What would be the priorities in the programme? How would you start organising? @kollapscamp.bsky.social

"After the tornado, I accepted my first food handout... I spent hours alongside strangers picking up debris, using tools lent by people standing on street corners, and eating food they brought us. I’d never experienced such a coming together" #MutualAid invisiblepeople.tv/what-is-mutu...

An oldy but a goody: This tiny book of big ideas is about living and acting in hard times. It’s about dispelling the myth that unfolding, irreversible climate-ecological collapse means there is nothing left to do. In collapse, there is more to do than ever before! justcollapse.org/2025/09/20/n...

In collapse, we can act now for a Just Collapse!

This planetary boundaries diagram can be deceptive. The ‘safe operating zone’ depicted in green looks like its intact. In reality, we now inhabit a world of yellow, orange, and red, with only a tinge of green remaining. There is no safe center to return to. But don't just collapse, Just Collapse!

Happening this week, with @tadziomueller.bsky.social and Scully!

“It's not easy to admit that so openly... The whole damned world scares me; thinking about the world isn't "interesting" anymore, it actively puts me in a bad mood.” @tadziomueller.bsky.social Talk collapse for a Just Collapse! steady.page/de/friedlich...

We're heading for an uninsurable future! Yet, most of the world has never had modern insurance. Most people reply on networks of care and reciprocity - what @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social called small 'c' communism. In unfolding and irreversible global collapse, I call it a #JustCollapse.

If collapse changes politics, what do we call this politics? In this new article, Kate Booth looks at post-anarchism as a way of articulating and acting for socio-ecological justice in decline and disaster. Full article - Lutruwita Activist and Mutual Aid journal #1. lamacollective.bigcartel.com

Don't just collapse. #JustCollapse capitalism!

The idea of ‘surprise’ is attached to many kinds of collapses—the collapse of corporations, bridges, nation states, economies, natural systems. Yet so often there is information indicating a problem and people who know enough to see it coming. Read more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Mutual Aid HEAT is an upcoming event in Germany, practicing mutual aid in stressful situations. This is the new frontier of left politics, because collapse changes politics and activism. #JustCollapse #CollapseActivism @tadziomueller.bsky.social @scully78.bsky.social mutualaidheat.de/en

What is collapse?

... and capitalism. Hard won and partial though these may be, new solidaristic discourses and practices are refashioned from within what, and by whom, is in collapse." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

... salvage operation within the wreckage of worlds ending, picking up and through the pieces of broken networks and tenuous relations. These pathways through the rubble are well-trodden by those whose lives and livelihoods are disrupted—and collapsed—through processes such as colonialism ... 2/3

So excited to be launching my new book that I'm starting with my conclusions and working backwards in a series of posts! I conclude by eschewing big political projects (is this wise?) and focusing on how collapse changes ideas of solidarity: "In collapse, solidarity is a collective salvage ... 1/3

New book about collapse, out now: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

For those in a time zone compatible with Australia. #Solidarity in #collapse

Over 25 years of research on social history and cultural change has led me to 8 broad conclusions about the nature of what many simply call “collapse.” Below is the synthesis of that research so far — even as the inquiry continues.

Co-founder of Just Collapse, Tristan Sykes, recently passed away. The collapse activist space will not be the same without him! His family is seeking assistance to cover the costs of cremation and a memorial. If you have capacity to help out, this would be much appreciated. gofund.me/e297b40c4

With immense sadness, I share the news of Tristan Sykes’ passing - unexpected and sudden. Tristan was my best friend, lover, and activist-in-arms for many years. His intelligence, wit, and strategic nouse were key to the success of Just Collapse. - Kate Booth, Just Collapse co-founder

The movement advocates a ‘just collapse’ or ‘planned collapse’ to mitigate the worst consequences of an uncontrolled collapse. 👀👉 @justcollapse.bsky.social #JustCollapse #InsurgantPlanning (Shirt design: 2024)

Today in my mailbox in CZ: "72 hours. How to prepare for crisis situations and cope with them together (!)", 20 pages - Very good. But when we will have an actual public debate on how to face the future? Talking about #collapse... @tadziomueller.bsky.social @justcollapse.bsky.social

In hard times, people have always responded with mutual aid. Mutual aid is not a call for volunteers but an invitation to join something ancient and ongoing. #TalkCollapse

Mutual Aid - “Without permission, we build in the ashes, along the flood plains, and across the fault lines. Disasters keep coming, and we return again and again, not as saviors but as neighbors, kin, and fellow travelers…” #InsurgentPlanning mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/no-one-left-...

>> Collapse is inevitable. Justice is not. << 👉 @justcollapse.bsky.social #TalkCollapse #JustCollapse 🗣️🫂🤝 bsky.app/profile/tieb...

Menschen, die sich der wissenschaftlichen Faktenlage bewusst sind, sind aufgrund von Gesellschafts- und Staatsversagen leider auf #Selbsthilfe angewiesen. 🙁 #TalkCollapse #JustCollapse Internationales Movement: siehe 👉 @justcollapse.bsky.social 👈 bsky.app/profile/tieb...

Listen now: A fun debate about one of the most serious topics of our times - global collapse. Will AI save us? Can climate change be stopped? Is collapse really a process of regenerative transformation? #TalkCollapse for a #JustCollapse.

‘Is it too late to avoid civilizational collapse?’ - debators took to the stage at a popular science festival. When #TalkCollapse hits the mainstream, which way will it go? Spoiler alert - #JustCollapse co-founder, @incollapse.bsky.social was on the winning team! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Collapse is now and those least responsible are impacted first and worst. Ride the collapse zeitgeist - #TalkCollapse for a #JustCollapse.

Watch this… then start planning You already know collapse is coming Time to fight for a Just Collapse

Falls du am #Kollapscafe Wien interessiert bist, melde dich gerne bei mir! Wenn du dich gerne online austauschen möchtest im DACH Raum kannst du z.B. hier andocken: kollapskollektiv.de

🇦🇹 I know about “Kollaps Cafe” meetings in #Vienna and #Graz. You can find very useful information on the Facebook page and website of non-profit association @nachhaltigingraz.bsky.social 🧡 Who knows anything else in Austria? #TalkCollapse #JustCollapse nachhaltig-in-graz.at

Rock n roll! When we launched #JustCollapse back in '21, we were aiming to influence the zeitgeist in favour of socio-ecological justice in a collapsing world. Here's a recent example of partial and relative success 🙂

Sonic Youth!!! cool movies come with cool soundtracks 😎

What this article doesn’t say: when 7 of 9 of the Earth’s life support systems are flashing red, there is no way back. With those least responsible impacted first and worst, this means collapse like climate change is an issue of socio-ecological justice. #JustCollapse

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7 of 9 planetary boundaries crossed! “The Ocean is our planet’s life-support system... Today, acidification is a flashing red warning light on the dashboard of Earth’s stability... we risk collapsing the very foundation of our living world” #TalkCollapse oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ocean-a...