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Joseph Tainter has pointed out in his valuable book, The Collapse of Complex Societies,
John Michael Greer • The Wealth of Nature: Economics as If Survival Mattered
“It’s a great idea, trees. So great that evolution keeps inventing it, again and again.”
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory. It’s called genes. To solve the future, we must save the past.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Responding to Brand, Wilson has observed, “We are not as gods. We’re not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything.” Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: “We are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it…We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children.” Kingsnorth
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Anthropocene
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Razib Khan • When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot
When we disturb nature at its own scale—as with our “extinction engine” and greenhouse gases of recent times—we risk triggering apocalyptic forces. Like it or not, we now have to comprehend and engage the still Longer Now of nature.