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laodan discovered 7 months ago- The Politics of Transition in The Archdruid report by John Michael Greer
... trying to force an ecotechnic society into existence in the next twenty years, say, is a recipe for failure. As I've suggested in previous posts, the form of economy and society that succeeds best under any given set of environmental conditions depends much more on those conditions, and the way they interact with the resources and technology available at the time, than on deliberate choices by human beings. ... Only when the resources available to human societies are once again limited to what the earth provides renewably will ecotechnic societies - human cultures supporting a high technology on a sustainable basis - be the most successful option. The Politics of Transition Change is a process. No society ever went from a form A in the morning to a form B in the evening. Taking the power of state through a revolutionary coup changes nothing more than some of the leaders at the top of the state machinery. The process of change humanity will undergo will erase the material base sustaining many of our ways of doing and conceptions about life and life in society. We will thus have to adapt to a set of facts that will erupt in our faces: - gradual reduction of available fossil fuels without disposing of workable alternatives. - climate change will leave us with deserts in presently rich agricultural lands and submerge or at least threaten large concentrations of populations and economic power bases... - poisoned water, air, and land will transfer their poisons into the bodies of living species that will then suffer the agony of surviving... - globalization is already reshaping the distribution of economic power around the world and tensions will arise, between power centers in the world economy, from their competition for dwindling resources (energy, minerals, ...). Those tensions could very well conclude into open conflict. - the worldview of the winning power centers will automatically displace former leading cultures and spread around the world. All those facts will impose themselves on all of us and the only thing we will be able to do is to watch and try to understand how we can evade their rigors. In the meantime de-industrialization will oblige us to re-invent our ways of doing and our ways of organizing ourselves in societies.
- The Politics of Transition in The Archdruid report by John Michael Greer
