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The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future by John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer is a deeply ecological, historical thinker and gifted writer.

Monsta of Doom - John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer is an American author, independent scholar, historian of ideas, cultural critic, Neo-druid leader, Hermeticist, environmentalist/conservationist, blogger, novelist, and occultist/esotericist who currently resides in Cumberland, Maryland. The author, to date, of twenty-seven nonfiction books and one science fiction novel, he also writes the Archdruid Report, a weekly blog on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and serves as the presiding officer of a contemporary Druid order, the Ancient Order of Druids in America. 
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com

John Michael Greer - Apocalypse Not

The central feature of today's geopolitical landscape is the decline and fall of America's global empire. The nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory, with repercussions reaching far beyond the United States' borders.

John Michael Greer challenges the conventional wisdom of empire, offering a wealth of historical examples combined with groundbreaking original analysis. Greer illustrates how, in the pursuit of political and economic power, the USA has backed itself into a corner, explores the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, and argues the only constructive way forward is a renewal of democratic institutions.

Rather than ask whether today's American empire should survive, Greer examines whether it can survive, and argues persuasively that the answer to the latter question is "no," An invaluable contribution to the body of speculative post-industrial literature, Decline and Fall is a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the Union or who believes that it is time to reinvent the American Dream. 


Audiobook: Decline and Fall, John Michael Greer

Overshoot Catton 1

Catton Overshoot 1

JMG in Dark Mountain

Greer in Dark Mountain

Dark Age America 15 posts

JMG Dark Age America blog posts

Collapse Now

JMG (2) Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush

JMG (1) Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush

TEXT: https://thegreatstory.org/JMG-evolution-history-progress.pdf

Progress, Reason, History,

TEXT: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/four-reasons-civilization-wont-decline-it-will-collapse/
ALSO: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-10/four-reasons-civilization-wont-decline-it-will-collapse/

Craig Collins - Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline, It Will Collapse

Durant - Lessons-of-History

Afterburn chapters 1-12

Richard Heinberg - Afterburn - A

TEXT: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/criticise-deep-adaptation-start-here/

Jem Bendell - To Criticise Deep Adaptation, Start Here

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JMG - The Retro Future (B) 6 - 8

JMG - The Retro Future (A) 1 - 5

TEXT: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/29/boundless-dying-trees/

Robert Hunziker - Boundless Dying Trees

Richard Heinberg - Has Oil Peaked?

TEXT: https://theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-future-well-the-outlook-is-worse-than-even-scientists-can-grasp-153091

Worried About Earth’s Future? Well, The Outlook Is Worse Than Even Scientists Can Grasp

This is the Foreword to "Research on Implications of Discussing Difficult Situations such as Societal Collapse from Environmental Change" 
IFLAS Occasional Paper 7 - www.iflas.info 
Released to support the signatories of the international Scholars Warning on risks of societal collapse. www.scholarswarning.net 
By Jem Bendell and Jasmine Kieft

Jem Bendell - Should we discuss our anticipation of collapse?

by Dr. Rene Susa. 
TEXT: https://jembendell.com/2021/03/02/the-harms-of-innocence-and-normality-in-the-face-of-climate-disruption/

The Harms Of Innocence And Normality In The Face Of Climate Disruption

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