Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
•Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
•Global warming, peak oil, economic chaos
•The Healing Power Of Beauty In A Bleak World
•Waiting for the punchline
•Moral case for sustainability more effective than economic?
•Pandora’s Boxes
The hard work of reinventing democracy in a post-imperial America, the subject of several of last month’s posts, is only one facet of this broader challenge. I’ve mentioned before that the pursuit of empire is a drug, and like most other drugs, it makes you feel great at the time and then wallops you the next morning.
Akshay Ahuja reviews A Paradise Built in Hell, Good News, and The Long Loneliness.
We are in the early stages of a great unraveling, an epic collapse of the largest human civilization this planet will ever know. How are we to make sense of it? Maybe this little diagram can help.
