collapse

Post-doom Collection of Michael Dowd's Narrations

This LIFE-CENTERED (not human-centered) "post-doom" playlist is collapse-aware and offers emotional and spiritual nourishment to those who see what's coming and choose to honor their grief through heartful witness and investing in what is regenerative and pro-future. These diverse thought leaders remind us that, as things contract, NOW is a perfect time to (A) stand with young people in their fight for intergenerational justice, (B) prepare with family, friends, and neighbors for increasingly difficult times, (C) cultivate awareness and deep feeling for the sacredness of life, impermanence, and death, and (D) engage in non-violent direct action not because we are confident that we will be as effective as we hope, but because we want to look ourselves in the mirror (and look young people in the eye) and feel we've done our part to nudge things in a pro-future direction with as much humility, grace, love, and generosity of soul as we were capable.

RIP Homo colossus

Techno-insanity and clueless eco-modernism

TEXT:http://wildancestors.blogspot.com/2021/05/life-after-fossil-fuels.html

Life After Fossil Fuels, Alice Friedemann - Review by Richard Adrian Reese

TEXT: https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/it-really-doesnt-matter
Darren's "Expressive Egg" website: https://expressiveegg.org/

Darren Allen - It Really Doesn't Matter

TEXT: https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4n6g-fCD7qAiSVVd4mCLCAJvZAQxv55/view

Sam Hall - The Busy Workers Handbook To The Apocalypse

Sir John Pasha's vitally important and insightful analysis of the common patterns of the rise and fall of empires.

Glubb Pasha - The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival

TEXT: http://thegreatstory.org/overshoot-overview.pdf
A fabulous overview of William R. Catton, Jr's famous book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

Overshoot - overview / summary by Peter Montague

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/Immoderate-Greatness-Why-Civilizations-Fail/dp/1479243140
Truly a "must read"! 
ALSO SEE: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-ophuls-apologies-to-the-grandchildren
AND: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-ophuls-1
AND: http://thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html#ophuls

Immoderate Greatness

William Ophuls - BOOK: Immoderate Greatness

TEXT: http://web.archive.org/web/20210306102016/http://collapsosaurus-rex.com/collapse-and-the-stages-of-grief/
ALSO SEE: http://web.archive.org/web/20210306102507/http://collapsosaurus-rex.com/
A real gem ... one of Connie's and my favorites.

Collapsosaurus Rex - Collapse and Stages of Grief

Here's Catherine Ingram's narration of her own 'must read' essay. It's excellent!
TEXT: www.CatherineIngram.com/facingextinction
ALSO HERE: www.FacingExtinction.com.au This is a superbly written, big hearted essay regarding accepting inevitable contraction and collapse (and possible extinction) and still having a great life, healthy relationships, peace of mind, and motivation to lovingly act on behalf of life.

Facing Extinction - narrated by Catherine Ingram

TEXT: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/climate-change-burning-down-house/

A really excellent review of David Wallace-Well's book, "The Uninhabitable Earth" and Bill McKibben's book, "Falter".

Alan Weisman - Burning Down The House - review of Wallace-Wells and McKibben

Published in The New York Times Sunday Review on November 15, 2019
TEXT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/sunday-review/depression-climate-change.html

Cara Buckley-NYTimes - Apocalypse Got You Down? Maybe This Will Help

Techno-Fix Overview

BBC - Are We On The Road To Civilizational Collapse

TEXT: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/04/06/The-Earth-Is-Telling-Us-We-Must-Rethink-Our-Growth-Society/

Bill Rees - The Earth Is Telling Us We Must Rethink Our Growth Society

TEXT: https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/planet-of-the-humans-why-technology-wont-save-us/

DGR - Elisabeth Robson - Planet Of The Humans - Why Technology Won’t Save Us

MAHB - Megan Seibert - Planet Of The Humans Review - Shining A Light On The Energy Black Box

TEXT: https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/
ALSO: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/

Collapse Of Civilisation Is The Most Likely Outcome

TEXT: "Business-as-usual porn - or we need to talk about collapse"
https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/2020/07/business-as-usual-porn-or-we-need-to-talk-about-collapse/
TEXT: "Collapse - a helpful guide for the perplexed"
https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/2020/07/collapse-a-helpful-guide-for-the-perplexed/

Chris Smaje - Let's Talk About Collapse (two Posts)

JMG - Stange Days Dawning - 3:3:21

Michael Dowd died October 2023. This soundcloud list is a substantial part of his legacy. Here he shares, via his voice, the major books, blogs, and other texts that instructed his own worldview shift into recognizing the multiple causes of the civilizational collapse underway and wisdom for moving into a postdoom perspective of clarity, calm, and compassionate love-in-action. As a Postdoom pastor, Michael aimed to support others in deeply adapting to abrupt climate change and societal and ecological breakdowns. Websites: https://www.postdoom.com and http://thegreatstory.org