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The Era of Breakdown

December 15, 2020June 3, 2015 by John Michael Greer

The fourth of the stages in the sequence of collapse we’ve been discussing is the era of breakdown.

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The Butlerian Carnival

December 15, 2020February 12, 2015 by John Michael Greer

Over the last week or so, I’ve heard from a remarkable number of people who feel that a major crisis is in the offing.

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The One Way Forward

December 15, 2020January 29, 2015 by John Michael Greer

As the conventional wisdom of flat-earth cornucopians crashes and burns around us, it’s time for some real heresy.

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The Mariner’s Rule

December 15, 2020January 22, 2015 by John Michael Greer

One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all.

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March of the Squirrels

December 15, 2020January 15, 2015 by John Michael Greer

Prediction is a difficult business at the best of times, but the difficulties seem to change from one era to another. Just now, at least for me, the biggest challenge is staying in front of the headlines.

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A Camp Amid the Ruins

December 15, 2020January 8, 2015 by John Michael Greer

Well, the Fates were apparently listening last week. As I write this, stock markets around the world are lurching through what might just be the opening moves of the Crash of 2015…

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Review: The Great Transition – The End of Growth?

December 15, 2020December 22, 2014 by Nafeez Ahmed

We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works.

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Panarchy: Implications For Economic & Social Policy

December 15, 2020December 12, 2014 by Roger Boyd

Panarchy is a concept that recognizes the cycle of growth, collapse and renewal inherent in complex systems. What can this concept tell us about human society’s cycles?

Categories Society Tags collapse of complex societies, Fossil Fuels, net energy, panarchy 1 Comment

Dark Age America: Involuntary Simplicity

December 15, 2020October 30, 2014 by John Michael Greer

The political transformations that have occupied the last four posts in this sequence can also be traced in detail in the economic sphere.

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Bright Were The Halls Then

December 15, 2020July 10, 2014 by John Michael Greer

Arnold Toynbee, whose magisterial writings on history have been a recurring source of inspiration for this blog, has pointed out an intriguing difference between the way civilizations rise and the way they fall.

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Transcending Collapse

December 15, 2020July 3, 2014 by Eric Garza

I predict the lineages of people alive 1,000 years from now will count among their ancestors people who transcended today’s collapse mythology and got to the real work of self and community development, inner work and adaptation.

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