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== | == Booklist == | ||
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''Surveying the struggles of disenfranchised peoples around the globe from frontline communities affected by climate change, to #BlackLivesMatter activists, to Indigenous water protectors, to migrant communities facing increasing hostility, anthropologist Mark Schuller argues that we must develop radical empathy in order to move beyond simply identifying as “allies” and start acting as “accomplices.” Bringing together the insights of anthropologists and activists from many cultures, this timely study shows us how to stand together and work toward a more inclusive vision of humanity before it’s too late.'' | ''Surveying the struggles of disenfranchised peoples around the globe from frontline communities affected by climate change, to #BlackLivesMatter activists, to Indigenous water protectors, to migrant communities facing increasing hostility, anthropologist Mark Schuller argues that we must develop radical empathy in order to move beyond simply identifying as “allies” and start acting as “accomplices.” Bringing together the insights of anthropologists and activists from many cultures, this timely study shows us how to stand together and work toward a more inclusive vision of humanity before it’s too late.'' | ||
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/humanitys-last-stand/9781978820876/ | https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/humanitys-last-stand/9781978820876/ | ||
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''Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?'' | ''Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?'' | ||
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288954/collapse-by-jared-diamond/ | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288954/collapse-by-jared-diamond/ | ||
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=== L'entraide: L'autre loi de la jungle === | |||
'''Servigne, Chapelle''' | |||
''Alors que nos sociétés libérales sont fondées sur des valeurs qui ne trouvent trop souvent du sens qu’à travers la compétition, Gauthier Chapelle et Pablo Servigne – l’auteur du succès de librairie Comment tout peut s’effondrer – commettent ici un ouvrage majeur. Au modèle de « la guerre de tous contre tous », ils proposent de substituer une vision du vivre-ensemble basée sur l’entraide. Car en balayant l’éventail du vivant – des bactéries aux sociétés humaines en passant par les plantes et les animaux –, il apparaît clairement que les organismes qui survivent le mieux aux conditions difficiles ne sont pas les plus forts, mais ceux qui s’entraident le plus… '' | |||
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36690231-l-entraide | |||
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=== The 2030 Spike === | |||
'''Mason''' | |||
''The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.'' | |||
https://www.routledge.com/The-2030-Spike-Countdown-to-Global-Catastrophe-1st-Edition/Mason/p/book/9781138384095 | |||
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=== The Collapse of Complex Societies === | |||
'''Tainter''' | |||
''Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses.'' | |||
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/archaeological-theory-and-methods/collapse-complex-societies?format=PB&isbn=9780521386739 | |||
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=== Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change === | |||
'''Catton, Jr.''' | |||
''Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology.'' | |||
''A calm but unflinching realist, Catton suggests that we cannot stop this wave - for we have already overshot the Earth's capacity to support so huge a load. He contradicts those scientists, engineers, and technocrats who continue to write optimistically about energy alternatives. Catton asserts that the technological panaceas proposed by those who would harvest from the seas, harness the winds, and farm the deserts are ignoring the fundamental premise that "the principals of ecology apply to all living things." These principles tell us that, within a finite system, economic expansion is not irreversible and population growth cannot continue indefinitely. If we disregard these facts, our sagging American Dream will soon shatter completely.'' | |||
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p009884 | |||
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=== The Limits to Growth === | |||
'''Meadows, Meadows, Randers, Behrens III''' | |||
''Published 1972 – The message of this book still holds today: The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet-population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behavior of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind’s future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical report of their findings. The book contains a message of hope, as well: Man can create a society in which he can live indefinitely on earth if he imposes limits on himself and his production of material goods to achieve a state of global equilibrium with population and production in carefully selected balance.'' | |||
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/ | |||
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Taken and expanded from https://www.collapsologie.fr/en/books/ | |||