If you are in Greater Hobart, Lutruwita, please join us for the International Day for Peace:

An apocalypse looks like a dramatic world ending event - like Hollywood movies or religious ideas about the end of the world. Collapse, however, is a process playing out differently at different times in different places. In collapse, we can act now for socio-ecological justice.

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

Is climate change the main driver for rising costs of insurance? The simple answer is no. Capitalism and endless growth are driving up the price of many types of insurance. In the three years to 2024, the global insurer sector recorded 'whooping' profits according to Allianz.

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/10.10…

In my new book, I ask: what is collapse? In a nutshell, this means that collapse is not necessarily a global apocalyptic future event. Instead, collapse is already taking place in small ways across the world and impacting different people and places in unique ways. #justice

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 ... 1/3

My book - available in May 2026! ‘In Collapse: When insurance and climate collide’

PALESTINE CALLING: Roads to Justice Thurs 26 March, 4.30-6pm In this University forum, Dr Adel Yousif and Remah Naji share their insights about Palestine and experiences of being Palestinian during colonial occupation and oppression. Hosted by UTAS Geographers for Palestine.

PALESTINE CALLING - Roads to Justice In this powerful forum, Dr Adel Yousif and Remah Naji share their insights about Palestine and experiences of being Palestinian during colonial occupation and oppression.