Review: “Endgame 2050” documentary
Endgame 2050 delivers lots of good information, but it’s hampered by poor structure, repetition and lack of focus.
dystopian futures
Ciao Mao?
To put it another way, if you’d prefer to avoid harsh dystopias of involuntary rural simplicity in the future of the Pol Pot variety, then there’s a good case for working up some gentle utopias of voluntary rural simplicity right now, and trying to implement them.
Review of Merigan Tales (short story collection edited by John Michael Greer)
The stories that fill this extraordinary volume depict a far-future world that defies most people’s expectations about the future. In it, America and the other developed nations have reverted to a preindustrial state of existence as a consequence of having exhausted the Earth’s economically recoverable fossil fuels as well as rendered immense regions of the planet humanly uninhabitable in the process.
Growing My Way out of Dystopia
What would it be like to be mobilized by my government — and I emphasize “my” because as far as I’m concerned, Donald Trump’s version of it doesn’t qualify — into some collective effort to make this country a better place.
Deep thought – dystopia and revolt – June 5
•The War on Scarcity •The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future •Without Water, Revolution •Turkish hopes for a new beginning •The Stockholm Uprising and the Myth of Swedish Social Democracy •The Natural Limits Of Confronting Our Limits •Days of Destruction
Deep thought-Dec 6
•Welcome To The New Normal: Poor, Not Special, But Here And Not There
•Feed the Hunger
•The Cloud: What are we doing to our minds?
