The Era of Breakdown
The fourth of the stages in the sequence of collapse we’ve been discussing is the era of breakdown.
limits to growth
Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits
Uncivilising ourselves from our destructive civilisation and building something new is the great, undefined, creative challenge we face in coming decades – which is a challenge both of opposition and renewal.
A Thirst for Economic Change?
Perhaps the catalyst could be a life-altering dearth of a critical resource that, until recently, most of us in the United States have taken for granted: water.
Why We Have an Oversupply of Almost Everything (Oil, labor, capital, etc.)
Glut of Capital and Labor Challenge Policy Makers: Global oversupply extends beyond commodities, elevating deflation risk. To me, this is a very serious issue, quite likely signaling that we are reaching what has been called Limits to Growth…
A Community Resilience Take on The Great Transition
A review of Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition.
Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition
We need an integrated approach, one that reconnects human development with the biosphere.
John Michael Greer: The God Of Technological Progress May Well Be Dead
The stories running our heads influence everything from our beliefs to our values to our actions.
Feed Yourself
Oil guru Richard Heinberg on life after fossil fuels. Marjory Wildcraft: why you may want to grow your own groceries.
Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet): Review
Democracy presupposes a citizenry capable of thinking for themselves rather than being misled by propaganda.
Announcing AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Afterburn is a book of “greatest hits”, similar in that respect to an earlier book of mine, Peak Everything.
Only Less Will Do
Violin playing constitutes an ecologically benign hobby, right?
Peak Meaninglessness
Last week’s discussion of externalities—costs of doing business that get dumped onto the economy, the community, or the environment, so that those doing the dumping can make a bigger profit—is, I’m glad to say, not the first time this issue has been raised recently.
