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 hundred and four...
Collapse of industrial civilization: Finding the truth behind the American hologram
Nate Hagens notes that “he modern industrial world is sleepwalking towards the cliff of economic and ecological ruin.”
Global catastrophic risks: In a nutshell
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.
In 2009, two English writers published a manifesto. Out of that manifesto grew a cultural movement: a rooted and branching network of creative activity, centred on the Dark Mountain journal, sustained by the work of a growing gang of collaborators and contributors, as...
New and largely unstudied risks are associated with powerful emerging technologies and the impacts of human activity, which in the worst case might pose existential risks. The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk wants to reap the enormous benefits of...
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich explore the possibility of global collapse.
Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?
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
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 Ann Marie Healy...
The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval
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 working on the...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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 and Pitcairn Islands,...