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Monthly Archives: September 2021
The future is a process
Unexpected floods, storms and fires, throughout the world has prompted me to make the point that the future must be seen as a process. From the bottom up. A process in which “black swans” will gradually fill in the big … Continue reading
A Short History of Progress
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .A Short History of Progress is a non-fiction book and lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse. The lectures were delivered as a series of five speeches, each taking place in different cities across Canada as part of … Continue reading
A far from perfect storm
The latest from Tim Watkins at The Consciousness of Sheep concludes that: ….. the continued operation of an advanced industrial economy like the UK depends upon the weather to avoid collapse this winter. And we might, perhaps, want to ask some … Continue reading
The Negative-Sum Economy
In his latest blog post on Ecosophia John Michael Greer introduced me to a new word, illth, first coined by Ruskin. This is the conclusion of his piece: During the long era of expansion made possible by the exploitation of … Continue reading
The financial world is deeply perverted
I have just come across this in a newsletter I receive. I think this is a symptom of de-growth. …. the financial world is deeply perverted. It’s a landscape in which toxic debt can be packaged up – and leveraged. … Continue reading
Backing our Neighbourhoods: making levelling up work by putting communities in the lead
A paper from Power to Change is interesting because it argues that putting local communities in charge (from the bottom-up) is more likely to work than top-down Government action. “It argues that we need to develop a more coherent strategy … Continue reading
Can this leopard change its spots?
The latest piece from Tim Watkins makes sobering reading “So no, until someone can come up with a scalable and cheap energy-dense replacement for fossil fuels, no amount of wishful thinking is going to generate the high-skilled and high-paid economy … Continue reading
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Fears of winter energy crunch send chill through market
If electricity prices, delivered through the grid increase for the foreseeable future, whilst prosperity is declining, going off-grid must begin to make sense. Especially off-grid communities. From “The Times”: Across Britain, consumers and businesses are feeling the pinch from rising … Continue reading
The collapse of complex societies
Worth listening to: The collapse of complex societies — RT Renegade Inc.
The Future is a Landscape
I have just come across a piece by John Michael Greer. It has reminded me of my past, in the 1960s and 70s. In the 1960s I worked in Hull, a city that was different. As The Fishing News reported it is hard … Continue reading