The Long View
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By Peter Heller Hig’s wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the...
Joanna Macy guides us how to suffer with the world and make responsible decisions that take into account our interconnectedness with all that is.
Nate Hagens addresses the environmental impact of the current economical model and possible solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9&v=MNzLkdr7UIU&feature=emb_imp_woyt The Resilience Gathering The New School at Commonweal hosted The Resilience Gathering, including keynote speaker Nate Hagens. We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is...
By Thomas Homer-Dixon The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon takes the reader on a mind-stretching tour of societies' management, or mismanagement, of disasters over time. From the demise of ancient Rome to contemporary climate change, this book analyzes what...
This book is filled with accessible prose & technical science and woven together by storytelling that gives human context to its central question: “What if climate change is worse than we think?” As someone who consumes climate information in bite-sized pieces, it...
By Bill McKibben Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben's experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate...
Dr. Suzuki hits us with some hard truths about what our future will look like if we continue to live the way we have been.
By David Fleming Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries,...
The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to build meaningful resilience.
by Fiona Harvey in The Guardian…Water shortages hitting crops, energy and health as crisis gathers pace amid climate breakdown
