By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Gradually, and then suddenly. That’s how exponential growth can ruin your day, undo your family, evaporate your economy, destroy your climate, crush an empire and destabilize a planet.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Growth of production is central to the core ideology of the current economic system, to the idea of “development” and “progress”. It is central to the legitimacy of the people who run the global economy. Without it there is a legitimacy crisis.
By Hal Ginsberg, Richard Heinberg, Radio Monterey
Richard Heinberg on his new book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels.
By Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute
Imagine there was a pill you could take every day that would provide you with wealth, freedom, and luxuries beyond the imagination of even the wealthiest kings of yesteryear. Well, guess what? You’re already taking it. And it’s called Petrolify®.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•The Fossil Fuels War •On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs •Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings •Dreaming of Uncivilisation