Reddit reviews Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
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Before I ever knew about global biosphere collapse, I was already looking into the decline of (the United States of) America. Morris Berman is such a pessimist he left the nation and moved to Mexico, but his books on American Collapse (Dark Age America trilogy) and particularly Wandering God helped put reality in perspective. By the time I found r/collapse I knew things were not going as well as the media wanted me to believe. I was already wondering how to live my life, given that the American dream was a vapid sham built on the backs of poor people, and finding out the Dream was also killing the world redoubled my efforts to live correctly.
Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush was pivotal in realigning my thinking. Accepting collapse is not so much a question of survival as much as "how do I want to spend my time being alive on this planet?"
"Climate - A New Story" by Charles Eisenstein goes into all of the reasons the world is collapsing but his take away is different from most. He argues that focusing only on reducing carbon consumption leaves all the other problems unchanged. Well researched and multilateral.
What Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We're In Planetary Crisis? This article was just beautiful and spoke to the reality of the times we live in.
Uncivilization - The Dark Mountain Manifestio Written by Paul Kingsnorth in 2009, this is some early but profound thought on collapse.
I find it very encouraging that our sub has attracted a lot of new people.
Many seem to be fixated on the climate portion of systematic collapse, when it is actually just a small portion of a much larger problem. I've found JMG to be our greatest resource when explaining this things.
Please help me post more JMG and similar content to bring new folks into the fold!
New folks: If you enjoyed this post, take the plunge and buy one of his books. Dark Age America is a good place to start.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Age-America-Cultural-Collapse/dp/0865718334