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Eurodystopia: A Future Divided
Eurodystopia: A Future Divided Image: dreamslayerartworks.comThis is a rerun of an article I wrote on August 10, 2012. It seems to have regained quite a bit of relevance in recent days. I was thinking earlier today, how can I write about finance when Europe continues to offend people’s, and humanity’s, most basic dignity the way […]
Retrotopia: Dawn Train from Pittsburgh
Retrotopia: Dawn Train from Pittsburgh This is the first of a series of posts using the tools of narrative fiction to explore an alternative shape for the future. A hint to readers who haven’t been with The Archdruid Report for long: don’t expect all your questions to be answered right away. ********** I got to the Pittsburgh […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1 Intro A great deal of intelligence is invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow, 1976 More and more people (although not nearly enough) are coming to recognise that humanity cannot continue on its current trajectory, as the limits we face […]
Pope Francis’ Appeal for the Future
Pope Francis’ Appeal for the Future Pope Francis is pleading for world leaders to defend the rights of mankind and the future of nature against the power of corporations and the pillage of “free market” dogma, a warning about the planet’s survival that vested political and media interests reject out of hand, writes Daniel C. […]
The future isn’t what it used to be
The future isn’t what it used to be Two recent films couldn’t be more at odds in their vision of the future. Mad Max: Fury Road is the long-awaited continuation of the Mad Max movie series. The movie is essentially a relentless chase scene set in a world burned to desert by climate change and bereft of civilization which […]
THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
The Workshop/Store in Paris’ 18th Arrondissement – Photo (CC): Carton plein THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX In the North of Paris, the Carton plein association collects, cleans and sells discarded boxes. People in precarious situations recycle, deliver by bike and help move – gaining professional and life skills in the process. It all began with […]
The Dismal and Hopeful Future
The Dismal and Hopeful Future One doesn’t have to be a brilliant social analyst to see that the contemporary world order is doomed, destined to start visibly crumbling within the next decade or two at the latest. The neoliberal system, in fact the corporate capitalist system, is radically unsustainable. It is too unstable, too universally […]
Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy
Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we are presently using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources annually. We […]
Warren Buffett: Derivatives Are Still Weapons Of Mass Destruction And ‘Are Likely To Cause Big Trouble’
Warren Buffett: Derivatives Are Still Weapons Of Mass Destruction And ‘Are Likely To Cause Big Trouble’ After all these years, the most famous investor in the world still believes that derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. And you know what? He is exactly right. The next great global financial collapse that so many are warning […]
Are we prepared to change to prevent climate change?
Are we prepared to change to prevent climate change? What is needed to get us out of our comfort zone and fight for our children’s future? If you ask, let’s say, a seven year old, it’s all pretty clear. If it’s the way we live, consume and produce that causes climate change, why don’t we […]
Designed for the Future: Practical Ideas for Sustainability
Designed for the Future: Practical Ideas for Sustainability The Beddington Zero Energy Development in London, U.K. | View the gallery. From packing materials made of mushrooms to buildings engineered to cool and power themselves, sustainable design can play a key role in helping people adapt to a changing planet. That’s a central message of the new […]
The Rise and Fall of Fantasy
The Rise and Fall of Fantasy Hay-on-Wye Festival Panel Discussion, With Ted Honderich — Who Reports on It — and David Aaronovitch and Edwina Currie To Hay-on-Wye the other day I went, to the more intellectual of the two festivals, the one with music as well, the festival gnomically namedHow The Light Gets In by its […]
The Era of Impact
The Era of Impact Of all the wistful superstitions that cluster around the concept of the future in contemporary popular culture, the most enduring has to be the notion that somehow, sooner or later, something will happen to shake the majority out of its complacency and get it to take seriously the crisis of our […]
The Era of Pretense
The Era of Pretense I’ve mentioned in previous posts here on The Archdruid Report the educational value of the comments I receive from readers in the wake of each week’s essay. My post two weeks ago on the death of the internet was unusually productive along those lines. One of the comments I got in response to that […]
The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve
The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve Last week’s post on the impending decline and fall of the internet fielded a great many responses. That was no surprise, to be sure; nor was I startled in the least to find that many of them rejected the thesis of the post with some heat. Contemporary pop culture’s […]
