A Gathering of Silverbacks: Age of Limits 2014
We are in the realm of highly improbable events that almost daily transform our world. A review of the Age of Limits conference.
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The Anthropocene: It’s Not All About Us
Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an amazing accomplishment?
Why Degrowth?
Bill Rees recorded in April at the Vancouver Degrowth Event on why degrowth is the only realistic path to sustainability.
Why Green Growth Won’t Transform the Economy
In discussions of the future of economic growth, ‘business as usual’ is not an option.
Making the most of climate change?
Those who follow climate change in the news will know that the latest IPCC report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change does not paint a very rosy picture.
Five pathways to post-capitalist ‘renaissance’ by a former oil man
In my first post on Leggett’s new book, I focused on his analysis of our "risk blindness." But despite his trenchant and uncompromising stance on the potentially catastrophic consequences of business as usual, Leggett is no doomer.
Who’s looking beyond growth?
Is there a way off the economic escalator?
Energy and the Financial System: What Everyone Needs to Know… and Work Darn Hard to Avoid
"Once you accept that growth will cease, all of the current ‘common sense’ assumptions about investing, such as the assumption of making money from money, cease to be true."
Why the elites are so ruthless that they destroy themselves
The recent announcement of a paper by Motessharrry, Rivas and Kalnay (MRK) on the collapse of complex societies has generated much debate, especially with the publication of an enthusiastic comment by Nafeez Ahmed who defined it a "NASA-funded" study.
Anger & Complicity in a Time of Limits
As a species we’re very sensitive to intra-human drama, and in a time of growing crisis, tend to frame narratives as those who are with us and those against.
Power is nothing without control: how to lose an empire
Power is nothing without control. And, usually, control seems to run out before power.
The global Transition tipping point has arrived – vive la révolution
Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new NASA-backed scientific research project at the US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (Sesync) to model the risks of civilisational collapse, based on analysis of the key factors involved in the rise and fall of past civilisations.