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By carolyn, on May 6th, 2012 
We’ve all experienced it: the kind of conversation everyone knows has to happen sooner or later, and nobody wants to have to face. Casual talk edges around it, jokes fail to get a laugh because they brush too close to it, silences open up because there’s no way to keep talking without crossing that line and facing it openly. Then, finally, somebody draws in a deep breath and says the thing that has to be said; chairs get pulled closer around into a circle, and a sense of relief cuts through the discomfort as the conversation begins at last. That’s the kind of conversation we need to have now, and the subject is the end of industrial society. . . . → Read More: The Conversation We Need To Have: The Age Of Limits Conference, Memorial Day Weekend, By John Michael Greer
By OceanWind, on April 2nd, 2012 
The Age of Limits: Conversations on the Collapse of The Global Industrial Model
Dedicated to the pioneering work of Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers & Dennis Meadows and their epochal 1972 report “The Limits to Growth.”
Also featuring John Michael Greer, Dmitri Orlov, Gail Tverberg, and Thomas Whipple
Friday May 25th thru Monday May 28th, 2012 . . . → Read More: Carolyn to Speak at Age of Limits Conference Memorial Day Weekend
By carolyn, on May 15th, 2012 
In his book Eaarth, Bill McKibben explains that the effects of man-made global warming are not a thing of the future, but are already here now. Human activity for the past centuries has already changed the Earth we thought we knew. How can we learn to love this damaged Earth that human activity (both knowingly and unknowingly) has created? How do we wrap our brains and hearts around something this huge? And how do we do this in a way that offers healing, renewal, genuine hope and a path forward? . . . → Read More: Learning To Love A Wounded World, By Dianne Monroe
By carolyn, on May 14th, 2012 
A new report from the University of Michigan starts off its press release with a not so optimistic phrase: “It’s a message no one wants to hear.” Just what message is this? That it would take an extreme economic downturn to slow the effects of global warming. . . . → Read More: The Only Thing That Will Stop Global Warming Is A Massive Economic Downturn, By Liz Klimas
By carolyn, on May 10th, 2012 
The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive. . . . → Read More: Oil Wars On The Horizon, By Michael Klare
By carolyn, on May 7th, 2012 
We live, then, in a dark time here on our tiny precious planet. Ecological devastation, political and economic collapse, irreconcilable ideological and religious conflict, poverty, famine: the end of the overshoot of cheap-oil-based consumer capitalist expansionism. If you don’t know where you’ve been, you have small chance of understanding where you might be headed. So let me offer a capsule history for those who, like most of us, got little help from textbook history. Humans tend to try to manage things: land, structures, even rivers. We spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and treasure in imposing our will on nature, on preexisting or inherited structures, dreaming of permanent solutions, monuments to our ambitions and dreams. But in periods of slack, decline, or collapse, our abilities no longer suffice for all this management. We have to let things go. . . . → Read More: Ernest Callenbach: Last Words To An American Decline
By carolyn, on May 5th, 2012 
“The U.S. government right now is engaged in its own kabuki theatre to protect the U.S. industry from the real costs of the lessons at Fukushima,” Gunter said. “The NRC and its champions in the White House and on Capitol Hill are looking to obfuscate the real threats and the necessary policy changes to address the risk.” . . . → Read More: The Worst Is Yet To Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima A Ticking Time Bomb, By Brad Jacobson
By carolyn, on May 3rd, 2012 
The poorest and most vulnerable die first, out of sight, and everyone else just does what they can to survive. Peoples’ priorities change: they concentrate on getting by from day-to-day rather than planning for the future. They stop getting married. They have less children or none at all. They live for today. They work harder for less. Taxes go up even as basic services are cut. Long term unemployment has been conclusively linked to greater mortality and susceptibility to illness, physical and mental. Would many of these people not still be alive today if were not for austerity measures and declining middle class opportunity? Isn’t that a die-off? It’s been said that having children is a referendum on the future. Based on global birth rates, I think the human race is collectively registering a vote of “no confidence.” . . . → Read More: What If Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed?
By carolyn, on May 2nd, 2012 
Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena . . . → Read More: American Dystopia: Welcome To The 2012 Hunger Games, By Rebecca Solnit
By carolyn, on April 28th, 2012 
Poets of previous generations warned that one’s soul could be lost in blind pursuit of vaults of riches and limitless knowledge. It is difficult not to laugh in derision or weep in anguish for a people who sell their soul for access to the contents of a convenience store. Addiction to fattening food speaks of our inner emptiness; so called Reality Television relates to our hunger for social engagement and communion; the images that haunt the corporate state media hologram attract us because we long for the images that rise from the soul. . . . → Read More: The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos With The Hungry Ghosts Of The Corporate State, By Phil Rockstroh
By carolyn, on April 26th, 2012 
Defining wealth as the ability to buy things, we have largely lost the sense of “weal,” which means well-being (as in the word “commonweal”). To most people, wealth now refers less to shared well-being than to “gross national product” or “personal net worth.” . . . → Read More: Redefining Wealth, By Craig Comstock
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