Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush
Subtitle: the best of the Archdruid Report
By: John Michael Greer
Publisher: Founders House Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Danville, Illinois]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780692389454
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Regression (Civilization); Twenty-first century; Forecasts; Social change; Forecasting; Technology and civilization; Citizen participation; Technology; Social aspects; Human ecology; Politics and government; Technologie; Aspect social
Description: "Since 2006, author John Michael Greer has been sharing his perspectives on the fate of industrial civilization and more on his weekly blog, THE ARCHDRUID REPORT. His writing, both highly engaging and rooted in a depth of broad scholarship, has earned him thousands of readers who want to understand the trajectory our world has taken. Topics like energy, resource depletion, and the ideas behind some of our culture's cherished beliefs have been explored."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Real Druids; title: Knowing Only One Story; title: The Twelfth Hour; title: Arguments from Ignorance; title: The Pornography of Political Fear; title: A Deindustrial Reading List; title: The Onset of Catabolic Collapse; title: Alternatives to Nihilism; title: Salvaging Learning; title: An Elegy for the Age of Space; title: The Glass Bead Game; title: Pepperspraying the Future; title: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin; title: The Blood of the Earth, or Pulp Nonfiction; title: Night Thought in Hagsgate; title: Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush; title: The Parting of the Ways; title: The Upside of Default; title: The Beginning of the World; title: The Next Ten Billion Years; title: Man, Conqueror of Nature, Dead at 408; title: A Christmas Speculation; title: The Crocodiles of Reality; title: Refusing the Call: A Tale Retold; title: The Time of the Seedbearers; title: An Archdruid Report Bibliography.