A/Prof Kate Booth
@incollapse.bsky.social
Human geographer posting about climate, insurance, inequity, and the most challenging and controversial predicament of our times - global collapse. #InCollapse
“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...
“I'm scared”: the conversation nobody wants to have
It's scare to think and talk about the future, about climate collapse and fascism, & yet we very rarely do. But if we acknowledge and face our fears, we will find agency.
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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
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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 finance corporation 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/10.1007...
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
Mutual Aid HEAT 2026 - Learning to Act Together in Times of Crisis
We want to move closer to our goal of creating structures that enable practical and emotional responses during disasters.
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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
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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 collective salvage ... 1/3
My book - available in May 2026! ‘In Collapse: When insurance and climate collide’
PALESTINE CALLING: Roads to Justice Thursday 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. This forum is 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.
Big news! I have just submitted my book to its publisher! In this book, I take a critical look at one of the most controversial ideas of our times—global collapse, focusing on climate and insurance. My motivation is to support meaningful and just responses to unevenly distributed impacts & hardship.
Today, I began reading Post-Anarchism: A Reader, a collection of essays edited by Duane Rouselle and Sureyyya Evren (2011). Why am I reading this book?
The fourth book I’m reading this month is The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (2021). Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?
Third cab off the rank – I’m reading David Graeber’s (2014) Debt. Three reasons why this book is on my list:
My second book is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Engels Friedrich (2010) – the manifesto itself and an introduction and notes. In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.
In modern academic life, reading a whole book is a radical act. Unfortunate, but true. So, I’ve dedicated the next 4 weeks to reading. My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press. Why read this book?
It's too late to avoid civilizational collapse. Or is it? The Beaker Street Festival Great Debate is now live on ABC's Big Ideas. 'The Transformers' and 'The Three Horsewomen of the Apocalypse' battled it out, and who won? Spoiler alert - my horsey team! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
We’re F**ed! It’s too late to avoid civilisational collapse. 2025 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate - ABC listen
Is the end of the world nigh, or just the end of the world as we know it? Are we set to doom-scroll our way to apocalypse? Or is this the moment we wake up to ourselves, change course, and save the pl...
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I call myself an 'academic activist.' But what does that mean? The ideas embedded within @justcollapse.bsky.social come from human geography and allied fields. This is critical geography in action - mixing academic life with activist intent with some surprising results!
Just Collapse@justcollapse.bsky.social · 10mo agoBe a rockstar, #TalkCollapse! Sonic Youth co-founder, @leeranaldo.bsky.social has released ‘A Just Collapse’ - part of the soundtrack for a new film featuring just collapse activist @tadziomueller.bsky.social. We’ll keep you updated about where to watch ‘The System’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkMO...
Interested in doing a PhD? Geographies of Collapse and Equity: This is your opportunity to design a project within critical collapse studies – a leftist, intellectual concern with power and inequity in everyday life and a collapsing world. www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...
Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Geographies of collapse and equity
Global collapse is one of the most compelling and controversial ideas ...
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Is it the end of the world? Have our multi-crises of climate change, over-consumption etc brought us to the brink? Join two teams of science and culture heavy hitters for this battle of brains and bravado. Yes, that includes me - on the affirmative team! tickets.beakerstreet.com.au/Events/THE-B...
THE BEAKER STREET DEBATE
Natasha Mitchell hosts the battle of brains and bravado
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New research: “aimed at reducing oppression during crises… mutually beneficial networks of skills and resources…the possibility of enduring within instability, adapting to conditions that may continue to deteriorate, even to the ultimate outcome of species extinction” @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social 1/2
It's here! I'm thrilled to share my latest publication in Critical and Radical Social Work - “Collapsed Social Work: A Theoretical Framework for Adapting to Societal Collapse.” This paper asks a unnerving but necessary question: What happens to social work when society itself begins to break down?
Right now, it’s not insurance companies we should worry about. It is the unfolding, real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities.
NSW is again cleaning up after major floods. Are we veering towards the collapse of insurability?
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In a changing climate, are we veering towards a collapse of insurance? "...it is not a future crash of insurers that should be of primary concern. It is the real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities." #JustCollapse theconversation.com/nsw-is-again...
NSW is again cleaning up after major floods. Are we veering towards the collapse of insurability?
Right now, it’s not insurance companies we should worry about. It is the unfolding, real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities.
theconversation.com
