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Resilience, the global challenge, and the human predicament

Resilience, the global challenge, and the human predicament

Apr 9, 2019 | Community

The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to build meaningful resilience.

Post Carbon Institute

https://www.postcarbon.org/
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It

Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It

Apr 9, 2019 | Books, Economy

David Fleming's Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It leads readers through a stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, comprising four...

Collapse of industrial civilization: Finding the truth behind the American hologram

Collapse of industrial civilization: Finding the truth behind the American hologram

Apr 8, 2019 | Polycrisis

Nate Hagens notes that “he modern industrial world is sleepwalking towards the cliff of economic and ecological ruin.”

Global catastrophic risks: In a nutshell

Global catastrophic risks: In a nutshell

Apr 8, 2019 | Polycrisis

Open Philanthropy Project highlights future global catastrophic risks such as pandemics and risks from advanced artificial intelligence, in order to point towards potential opportunities for research.

The Dark Mountain Project

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Apr 8, 2019 | Polycrisis

Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich explore the possibility of global collapse.

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

Apr 8, 2019 | Polycrisis

Luke Kemp says studying the demise of historic civilisations can tell us how much risk we face today. Worryingly, the signs are worsening.

Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

Apr 8, 2019 | Books, Resilience

In times of upheaval, why do some people, communities, companies and systems thrive, while others fall apart? That’s the question at the heart of an exciting new field, and an urgent new agenda for the 21st century. In Resilience, Andrew Zolli and...

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Apr 7, 2019 | Books, Resilience

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, Edited by Daniel Lerch, combines a fresh look at the crises humanity faces, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Apr 6, 2019 | Books, Polycrisis

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond includes four sets of studies. Seven chapters discuss some of the clearest, most familiar, most striking examples of past collapses: the ends of Polynesian societies on Henderson...

Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences

Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences

Apr 5, 2019 | Books, Polycrisis

Apologies to the Grandchildren by William Ophuls is a collection of essays that throw light on questions of ecological collapse, the connection between the ecological crisis and the breakdown of liberal democracy, and what society will look like...

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Apr 4, 2019 | Books, Resilience

Written by Brian Walker and David Salt. Published by Island Press, Canada 2012

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Apr 3, 2019 | Books, Polycrisis

In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophesies of doom, which play to our psychological biases.

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

Apr 2, 2019 | Books, Polycrisis

Renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.

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