Anger & Complicity in a Time of Limits
By Alexander Ač, David Korowicz, Resilience.org
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.
How to be Trapped: An Interview with David Korowicz
By Alexander Ač, David Korowicz, Resilience.org
The broad point here is that growth and collapse is a much more fundamental process than capitalism...
The decline of an empire
By Alexander Ač, Cassandra's legacy
Given that City of Detroit has now officially filed for bankruptcy, it is worth looking at the bigger picture.
Socio-economic paradigm shift is ahead: Interview with Nathan Hagens, ASPO-Vienna 2012
By Alexander Ač, Energy Bulletin
The current period can be undoubtedly characterized as an economical, ecological, cultural, political, but also moral crisis. The solution seems to be as far off as ever and problems seem to be getting worse by the day everywhere. Why is that, what can we expect in the future and what are the safe outcomes from this future bottleneck? We have been talking to Nathan Hagens at the latest ASPO conference in Vienna...
Interview with Chris Martenson: “Prepare for peak oil while there is time.”
By Alexander Ač, Energybulletin.cz
"I have seen a lot of people not quite getting what economically might happen. I have seen a lot of people assuming there is a kind of energy decline curve, so that economy might sort of to follow that. But we are entering this decline curve with the highest level of leverage, or debt, on record. We have been towering up huge amounts of debt that requires constant growth. So I see the possibility, again a risk, of a more disruptive future than perhaps others do."
“Expect next phase of market crash and a large one for that matter…” – Interview with Nicole “Stoneleigh” Foss
By Alexander Ač, Energy Bulletin
"Financial crisis is going to make resource depletion much harder to address, because we are not going to have the money to replace highly energy-dependent infrastructure. Doing so would be staggeringly expensive and would take a very long time even if we did have the money. As it is, we will be forced to conserve both money and resources by going without."
“In America most people have no conception that anything can really change radically” – Interview with John Michael Greer
By Alexander Ač, Tomas Hyjanek, Energybulletin.cz
"There are people who have bought into what I would consider a very inappropriately optimistic idea of the future, and they insist I am a doomer. People who are hard core doomers insist I am a blind optimist. Because we in Western civilization these days tend to be thinking in terms of two and only two categories."