[D66] [JD: 111] How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times

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    Description

What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the
future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face
huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially
catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but
we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these
crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization.  Yet we now
have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing
systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of
human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment.

In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront
these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how
its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are
connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it
were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives.  In so doing they
provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new
and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves.
Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that
everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into
making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the
horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the
beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the
world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all
our fellow creatures.


    About the Author

*Pablo Servigne* is an agronomist with a PhD in biology. He is a
specialist in questions of collapse, transition, agro-ecology and mutual
aid.

*Raphaël Stevens* is an eco-adviser. An expert in the resilience of
socio-ecological systems, he is cofounder of the consultancy agency
Greenloop.


    Reviews

"An explosive book that everyone should buy and read as soon as possible."
*/L'Obs/*

"This is not the kind of book you can read and put down with a shrug of
the shoulders: it is a book that will overwhelm you." 
*/Canard Enchainé/*

"This is an important book. The authors avoid apocalyptic scaremongering
but present compelling arguments to show that our society is
increasingly vulnerable to insidious but potentially devastating
setbacks – and that, because our world is now so interconnected, any
collapse would cascade globally. It will leave readers deeply anxious
about where we are heading. But it deserves a wide readership among all
concerned citizens – and, even more, among those who can influence policy."
*Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and former Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge*                                       

"It's high time and a cause for rejoicing that this matter-of-fact,
warm-blooded guide to societal collapse is now available in English. The
sane, comprehensive clarity brought by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël
Stevens will, I expect, liberate much practical ingenuity in the US and
other countries.  Four decades developing the Work That Reconnects and
Deep Ecology Work around the world has taught me that confronting
together our fears and losses with open eyes generates solidarity and
collective intelligence."
*Joanna Macy, co-author of /Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to
The Work That Reconnects/*

"If this crisis has taken most of us by surprise, French researchers
Pablo Servigne and Raphael Stevens…can claim to have seen it, or
something like it, coming. In their book, /How Everything Can Collapse/,
they suggest civilisation is now vulnerable to a complete breakdown, and
that the interconnectedness of modern societies makes that prospect
more, not less, likely… today’s pandemic and its economic fallout
confirm the authors’ arguments."
/*The Australian*/

"There's a tragic irony that this momentous book, which must have been
written well before the coronavirus struck, is published precisely at
this time."
/*Morning Star*/"Prophetic"
/*Bookforum*/"Whether you are just grappling with the need to think
about the future for yourself and your family or are personally obsessed
by dark scenarios for humanity and the earth, I highly recommend /How
Everything Can Collapse/, even if the title (in English at least) might
deter those who continue to relax in the soothing water of
techno-optimism."*
**David Holmgren, co-originator of permaculture*

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