NOT SURE THIS BELONGS HERE! So if you've read and thought about Our Civilisation is collapsing, you'll probably come up with something like a mixture of these three possible directions: <ul> <li>Investment markets and future tech will bring us a new era of abundance - and we'll be saved</li> <li>It's all hopeless - civilisation will crash - and we're back to the stone age</li> </ul> OR perhaps <ul> <li>There's a chance of building a new world - as some of the constraints holding us back become relaxed</li> </ul> I hold out little hope that investment markets and future tech will bring us to a new era of abundance. In my understanding the 'momentum' of all the forces leading to crumbling are in play, even accelerating. So I'll pay no more attention to this possibility.
Of course, I may be wrong
I do believe there's some signifcant probability that we will see a civilisational collapse, and so some of us should start making plans for living in reduced material abundance so that more can learn from what we're doing.
And also, I believe that all of us - at the same time - should be striving to build a better world out of the crumbling.
And in both of these outcomes, we must strive to introduce new values, behaviours, practices and institutions, all of which will help us toward the just, sustainable and loving society we all long for.
<i>“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”</i> Arundhati Roy – author, human rights and environmental activist