The Good Ancestor: Review
A book that inspires reading is a good book. A book that inspires thought is a better book. A book that inspires action is the best book of all. The Good Ancestor is the best book of all.
collapse of industrial civilization
Shifting baselines and coping with planetary change
It is not easy today to take an interest in the future of the planet, and especially in human civilisation, without becoming bewildered.
Rescuing civilization: Does the conservative/progressive rift pose an existential threat to humanity?
Simultaneously husbanding and equitably sharing multiple global common resources is the ultimate social challenge to humanity’s survival. Today specifically, that means navigating the impending perfect storm of simultaneous climate change, soil destruction, and fossil fuel depletion.
Can we predict collapses before they happen? What we learned from the pandemic
The overshoot of human activity is driving the planet from the stability of the Holocene to the instability of the Anthropocene.
Living with Collapse
This is at the heart of the Gaian philosophy. The hope is to develop local communities of those who understand our utter dependence on the Earth, as well as the moment in time we’re living through
Who is “we”?
We humans have made a mess of things, which is readily evident if we face the avalanche of studies and statistics describing the contemporary ecological crises we face. The question is, can we—all of us—face what lies ahead without diversion and without illusion?
The five real conspiracies you need to know about
While millions of people are spellbound by false conspiracy theories, the real conspiracies that are wrecking our world go about their business unheeded. Here are five genuine threats that everyone should know about—and take action on.
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
You see, the real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need to change in any fundamental way.
Education in a Time of Collapse
The assumption that the future is going to be just like the past is untenable. If we keep educating our students on the basis of this assumption, then that means we’re not preparing them for the world.
This is How we End Deforestation to Avert Pandemic, Climate and Societal Collapse
Deforestation is one of the most intractable and yet most potent drivers of environmental crisis. It is also among the four out of nine planetary boundaries that civilisation was already at high risk of crossing five years ago according to research published in the journal Science.
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
The eventual outcome of this great implosion is up for grabs. Will we overcome denial and despair; kick our addiction to petroleum; and pull together to break the grip of corporate power over our lives?
How Everything Can Collapse: Excerpt
We are not just presenting a ‘top ten’ of the century’s bad news stories, we are mainly proposing a theoretical framework for hearing about, understanding and welcoming all the small-scale initiatives that are already facing up to the ‘post-carbon’ world, initiatives that are emerging at breakneck speed.