Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future. In which localism prevails and power moves from the top-down to the grass-roots. Prosperity will decline and life will again be worth living.
Copied from un-Denial unmasking denial: creator and destroyer My premise is that at the global, nation-state, or even state level, the current hierarchical system is not capable of climbing down from overshoot, or anticipating and preparing for a lower energy, lower consumption future. Any efforts to prepare must be done at the personal, and then …
Barry Cooper guides ChatGPT to write about “spontaneous order”. Disorganisation is how we see things at present from our top-down mindsets. Maybe we are in a transition from the organised conditions of the industrial era to a fundamentally different era. According to Niall Ferguson … the iconoclastic British political operative Dominic Cummings hypothesises that the …
“Those who propose replacing the top-down with the bottom-up may have a valid case.”Tim Morgan, in his Surplus Energy Economics blog We can’t imagine the future. But we can try and interpret where we are heading from what is going on now. Top-down economic growth is over. It was nice while it lasted, even …
