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Ugo Bardi is a polymath who started his career as a chemist working on oil refining, to gradually move to study peak oil and then the trajectory toward collapse that society is following nowadays. He was a faculty member of the University of Florence, Italy. Now he is a member of the executive committee of the Club of Rome, a think tank located in Switzerland, known for having supported "The Limits to Growth" study of 1972.

Ugo is known for several studies in the field of biophysical economics, and his best known proposal is that of the "Seneca Effect," a way to explain why collapses are frequent in our world; so named after the ancient Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeas Seneca

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	Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet by Ugo Bardi (Goodreads Author), Jorgen Randers (Foreword) 4.24 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid 4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? by Ugo Bardi (Goodreads Author), Carlos Alvarez Pereira (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Limits to Growth Revisited 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Statue of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo 1st, carrying a Palestinian flag in “Piazza Signoria,” in Florence. Is the war really over? I don’t know, nobody knows, but we can hope it is. Two years of madness in Palestine, two years of death and destruction. And now we are left with rubble, a devastated land, destroyed buildings, ruined lives, wounded bodies, and wounded souls. And the big

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“Drink in the heat of an ancient sun
held in the cold fire of water rising
from earth and rock
Spilling over your cupped hands
and drawn to lips and tongue
Pouring water’s memory
of the azure mist it fell from
into the chalice of your flesh
Turning your eyes skywards
with desire
for the freedom it was born of”
― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

tags: cosmic, earth, freedom, gaia, mystical, pagan, poetry, spirituality, sun, water

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“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.”
― Laozi, Tao Te Ching

tags: spirituality

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