Calm Before the Storm

In this video, Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most of the best opportunities to manage collapse. He asks, “how far down the staircase of complexity will our global civilization have to go until we’re sustainable?”

His answer: when managed properly, with deliberate simplification, not as far as we might otherwise. In addition to long term efforts to relocalize our economies, he advocates developing community “resilience” to withstand short-term catastrophic events like food shortages or extreme weather.

Noting that healthy fear can move us into action, he encourages an attitude of clarity, concern and informed action in this “calm before the storm” that he feels is soon coming to an end. [www.richardheinberg.com]

~ Peak Moment TV  

Comments

[Richard]

I really like the idea of 'deliberate simplification'. In the Uk most people are going on as if nothing has or will change, yet prices keep going up and up. Some people are starting to ask ,'why?' and wonder at the trance that has kept the grasping after individual profit in place. Of course, like many, I worry about the life my child will lead. The best thing I can do is prepare him for change and to be flexible, as well as to appreciate living lightly (this is the hardest one!).

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