Dismantle Civilisation

A short article, sent by one of our readers, Brant Evans.
I once told a friend that knowledge of our current situation without appropriate action is the same as complete denial, but now I’m not so sure. I’d been working on my friend over the past couple months trying to open his eyes to the [...] Read more »

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Always one to find ways of speeding the demise of industrial civilization, I was really taken by this article in New Scientist about the remarkably destructive effect of roads in the Amazon rainforest. For many years ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has resorted to blocking logging roads as one of a range of methods to slow [...] Read more »

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Our obligation as activists, the first step, the essence, is to part the cultural veil at long last, and to tell the truth…… The root cause, the source of the symptoms, is 300 years of our relentlessly exploitative, extractive, and exponentially growing technoculture, against the background of ten millennia of hierarchical and colonial civilizations.
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Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.

By Robert Jensen, AlterNet.
“The old future’s gone,” John Gorka sings. “We can’t get to there from here.”
That insight from Gorka, one of my favorite singer/songwriters chronicling the complexity of our [...] Read more »

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Here’s the first of a series of 3 articles at Survival Acres blog (which now seems to be closing for compelling reasons as shown in the most recent post) on how to practically resist the system we find ourselves in.
The majority of points raised and the suggestions are excellent, although the occasional focus on individualist-style [...] Read more »

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Reprinted from Reality Sandwich.
If you want to go fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Whilst, like you, I’ve read many a tale of imminent ecological collapse, impending disaster, and fervent fear mongering within the pages of some of our more dubious dailies, I could never say I’d been “shaken to [...] Read more »

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An essay by Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute posted on The Oil Drum on how the current recession and economic troubles could be a symptom of a deeper crisis that will ultimately end economic growth forever:

This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute [...] Read more »

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This essay, taken from The Earth Blog, argues that humanity, and more specifically our individual selves, are what matters to us most of all and thus anything that threatens our survival is fundamentally bad. It’s a tough argument to make, largely because the values of those of us brought up in the civilized world have [...] Read more »

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by Damien Perrotin, The view from Brittany blog.
It has been pointed out that collapses are hard on ruling classes. It is a fact that they are far more dependent upon the continued existence of a complex society than the average subsistence farmer and when the said complex society unravels, they tend to be brutally replaced [...] Read more »

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Let us not forget that since these bombs were dropped the US/UK/USSR military industrial machines have built 1000s of nuclear bombs. War is a business. Empire needs war for the economic stimulus. But we don’t have to live in empire….. Read more »

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