Links of the Month: April 2026

earthset from the moon, from the Artemis II crew, via NASA There should be a name for the paradox in which a large group of individuals, each biophilic by nature, each doing their best under the circumstances, each quietly knowing the consequences of runaway ecological collapse, the exhaustion of cheap energy, endless wars, and relentlessly drawing more and more from the resources future generations and the rest of life on Earth need for their very survival, who somehow nevertheless behave collectively in a horrifically destructive, cruel and ruinous way, as if in utter ignorance or denial of this knowledge. Psychologists have names like “mass psychosis” to describe breakouts of groups with collective symptoms of a physical illness. But these are considered delusional and temporary. The head-shrink establishment doesn’t seem capable of acknowledging that living under chronically unbearable circumstances can easily, understandably, and permanently mentally damage and incapacitate large…