An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity

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Figure out how to reduce our impact on earth and survive the coming storms (of various types, icluding the list of “multiple cascading crises” in the article – more in Roubini’s Megathreats, even The Limits to Growth way back in the 70s)? b. A set of products, used by the household, that are supplied by the processes developed in step A above. Too much blame on Borlaug and globalization, the problems stem from too much success in the last few 100 years. Advocates for different approaches will disagree about specifics of policy proposals, but there is a growing awareness of the need to talk about limits.

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s. where the “we” with agency seems bent on multiplying crises, starting and feeding fires at home and in the far reaches of the Empire. How would slowing down and spending more time with family, friends and taking care of our planet and our own health ‘kill people? But of course we’re lumbered down with – and here’s another one of those “architectures” we’re burdened with the architecture of the human mind. An Inconvenient Apocalypse seeks to engage this problem with a deep concern for social justice, equality, and reverence for us and the planet that we have so deeply scarred. Instead he got a lot of condemnation of the Libertarian Vision and praise for various Communitarian Visions and Approaches instead.

The problem with individualistic and/or family scaled solutions is that they cost too much and use too much land.

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That’s a way of saying that humans are smart, and we know how to coordinate our activities to leverage our smarts. This will either come from a consciously and humanely planned “degrowth” or it will happen through a chaotic process of destruction. Claiming the prophetic tradition requires only honesty and courage and a willingness to confront the abuses of power and to acknowledge our own complicity. Apocalypse in the present context does not mean “lakes of fire, rivers of blood, or bodies raptured up to heaven. Still, it's regrettable that those who aren't familiar with this meaning of apocalypse are likely to dismiss this book as alarmist or fatalist.The solution requires addressing today's systemic failures and confronting human nature by recognizing the limits of our ability to predict how those failures will play out over time. Whatever choices we make, Jackson and Jensen argue, the new future will be marked by “fewer and less,” far fewer people consuming far less energy. Suggesting that humanity suffers from crises of consumption and of meaning, the authors assert a need for an “honest reckoning” at this “all-hands-on-deck point in human history. Port William, Kentucky, is the imagined but very real community (Mid-19th century – present) that is the subject and object of Wendell Berry’s fiction.

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Regarding the four questions of size, scale, scope, and speed, “the modern economy created by the Industrial and Digital Revolutions is not running out of time but rather has run out of time to correct the course.From the title onward, their approach is bold and methodical, and their treatments of each issue are concise. Jackson and Jensen take a hard look at the near future as climate change intensifies and predict looming crises will lead to human suffering and radical changes [. But if there is to be a decent human future, we have to realize that human-carbon nature is at the core of the problem, a reality that exempts no one. As that phrase suggests, Vitek contends that our affinity for relentlessly exploiting every last source of carbon on Earth–from soils to forests to fossil fuels–is an essential part of human nature.