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<h1 class="reader-title">How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for
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<p> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><b>Pablo Servigne</b> is an agronomist with a PhD in
biology. He is a specialist in questions of collapse,
transition, agro-ecology and mutual aid.</p>
<p> <b>Raphaël Stevens</b> is an eco-adviser. An expert
in the resilience of socio-ecological systems, he is
cofounder of the consultancy agency Greenloop.</p>
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<p> "An explosive book that everyone should buy and read
as soon as possible."<br>
<b><i>L'Obs</i></b></p>
<p>"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." <br>
<b><i>Canard Enchainé</i></b></p>
<p>"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."<br>
<b>Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and former Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge</b>
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<p>"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."<br>
<b>Joanna Macy, co-author of <i>Coming Back to Life:
The Updated Guide to The Work That Reconnects</i></b></p>
<p>"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, <i>How Everything Can
Collapse</i>, 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."<br>
<i><b>The Australian</b></i></p>
<p>"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."<br>
<i><b>Morning Star</b></i>"Prophetic"<br>
<i><b>Bookforum</b></i>"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 <i>How Everything Can Collapse</i>, even if
the title (in English at least) might deter those who
continue to relax in the soothing water of
techno-optimism."<b><br>
</b><b>David Holmgren, co-originator of permaculture</b></p>
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