List: Future visions | Curated by Gudrun Cartwright

Jan 28, 2025

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When Renewables Meet Their Limits to GrowthElectricity generation from “renewable” sources have recently hit record highs in Europe. According to Carbon Brief: “Wind and solar growth…
Jan 26
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Jan 26
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Richard Crim
The Crisis Report — 52“What a diff’rence a day made”
Nov 11, 2024
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Nov 11, 2024
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Richard Crim
The Crisis Report — 53The next 10 years are shaping up to be BAD ones. Lets look at the pieces coming together.
Dec 9, 2024
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Dec 9, 2024
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Eric Lee
Overshoot: Cognitive Obsolescence
And the Population Conundrumby William E. Rees, human ecologist
Jul 25, 2024
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Jul 25, 2024
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In
Coping With Capitalism
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Russell Salsbury
Why Capitalism is Dead and Its Heir is Neo-feudalismThe new barons are corporate psychopaths who care not a whit about fairness or social justice
Apr 17, 2024
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Apr 17, 2024
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ILLUMINATION
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Richard Lowenthal
The Psychological Magic of ‘Enough’: How it Can Save our Souls, and Maybe the PlanetThe ONLY place for endless ‘growth’ is in our inner and interpersonal worlds
Jun 6, 2024
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Jun 6, 2024
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The Energy Transition Story Has Become Self-DefeatingWe need another kind of transformation more than ever
Jun 3, 2024
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Jun 3, 2024
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Conviviology
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Anna Mercury
How to Flee a Dying WorldIt’s our minds, not our bodies, that need somewhere else to go.
Jan 1, 2024
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Jan 1, 2024
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Goodbye 2023, Goodbye Old WorldThe year when western industrial civilization slipped
Dec 25, 2023
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Dec 25, 2023
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Glen Hendrix
This End Game Isn’t Going to Be Pretty and It Is Not That Far AwayOne thing leads to another and before you know it ….
Dec 13, 2023
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Dec 13, 2023
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OnionCollective
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Jessica Prendergrast
Attachment Economics: everyday pioneers for the next economyAs we emerge tentatively from lockdown, feeling variously anxious and unsettled but sometimes hopeful, serious questions must be asked…
Jun 17, 2021
Jun 17, 2021
Alan Urban
Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate ChangeEven if climate change weren’t a problem, civilization would still collapse within a few decades. Here’s why.
Oct 20, 2023
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Oct 20, 2023
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fraser jf stewart
New toolsI grew up in assorted rough and wonderful housing schemes in Forfar, just outside of Dundee. My Mum, a nurse who trained during my early…
Mar 31, 2021
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Mar 31, 2021
4
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Age of Awareness
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Gwyneth Jones
We need to stop pathologising “wanting to save the world”It’s usually a well-meaning attempt to avoid burnout or delusions of grandeur, but hyperindividualism has also framed our need to help as a…
Jul 21, 2023
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Jul 21, 2023
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Michael L Fox
Climate/Collapse CalamityMaybe there is something we can actually do.
Jul 15, 2023
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Jul 15, 2023
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Dr Louis Arnoux
Dear Ms Greta Thunberg,On the first of July you posted The Show is Over on Medium. I agree with you, especially in the light of the recent extreme events, Pacific…
Jul 23, 2021
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Jul 23, 2021
1
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Surviving Tomorrow
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Jared A. Brock
Cities Are Farms For HumansWe’re living on corporate plantations for harvesting our time
Aug 5, 2022
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Aug 5, 2022
36
B. Lorraine Smith
Lor’s PrayerExploring direct dialogue with the Universe in the spirit of industrial healing
Aug 7, 2022
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Aug 7, 2022
3
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Predict
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Desiree Driesenaar
Are We Shifting from Anthropocene into the Syntropocene Right Now?I think we definitely are
Jul 4, 2022
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Jul 4, 2022
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Future visions

When Renewables Meet Their Limits to Growth

Electricity generation from “renewable” sources have recently hit record highs in Europe. According to Carbon Brief: “Wind and solar growth…

The Crisis Report — 52

“What a diff’rence a day made”

The Crisis Report — 53

The next 10 years are shaping up to be BAD ones. Lets look at the pieces coming together.

Overshoot: Cognitive Obsolescence And the Population Conundrum

by William E. Rees, human ecologist

Why Capitalism is Dead and Its Heir is Neo-feudalism

The new barons are corporate psychopaths who care not a whit about fairness or social justice

The Psychological Magic of ‘Enough’: How it Can Save our Souls, and Maybe the Planet

The ONLY place for endless ‘growth’ is in our inner and interpersonal worlds

The Energy Transition Story Has Become Self-Defeating

We need another kind of transformation more than ever

How to Flee a Dying World

It’s our minds, not our bodies, that need somewhere else to go.

Goodbye 2023, Goodbye Old World

The year when western industrial civilization slipped

This End Game Isn’t Going to Be Pretty and It Is Not That Far Away

One thing leads to another and before you know it ….

Attachment Economics: everyday pioneers for the next economy

As we emerge tentatively from lockdown, feeling variously anxious and unsettled but sometimes hopeful, serious questions must be asked…

Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate Change

Even if climate change weren’t a problem, civilization would still collapse within a few decades. Here’s why.

New tools

I grew up in assorted rough and wonderful housing schemes in Forfar, just outside of Dundee. My Mum, a nurse who trained during my early…

We need to stop pathologising “wanting to save the world”

It’s usually a well-meaning attempt to avoid burnout or delusions of grandeur, but hyperindividualism has also framed our need to help as a…

Climate/Collapse Calamity

Maybe there is something we can actually do.

Dear Ms Greta Thunberg,

On the first of July you posted The Show is Over on Medium. I agree with you, especially in the light of the recent extreme events, Pacific…

Cities Are Farms For Humans

We’re living on corporate plantations for harvesting our time

Lor’s Prayer

Exploring direct dialogue with the Universe in the spirit of industrial healing

Are We Shifting from Anthropocene into the Syntropocene Right Now?

I think we definitely are

Gudrun Cartwright