Dark Age America
by John Michael Greer · first published 2016
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"After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion. The questions we need to ask now focus on what comes next. This book provides a hard but hopeful look at the answer."--
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"Dark Age America" is a fascinating book by John Michael Greer that goes into the wicked dependencies in our technology stack.
on “Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?” ↗John Michael Greer summarized it wonderfully in the book 'Dark Age America'. Don't confuse technical capabilities with economic realities. Argued that Boeing never getting the SST off the ground was probably one of the better disasters to befall them. Vaclav Smil was right…
on “Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership” ↗…a situation that cannot be recovered from. He writes things that I don't want to agree with but they appear to hold water at least on the short term. I would recommend his books 'The Long Decent' and 'Dark Age America'. The other reason why I mention his work is that his predictions are fairly in line with yours, the idea that the environmental movement is about to go quiet again because of the extreme message being…
on “What Will Happen in the 2020s” ↗While yes this is a pessimistic take on it, the book 'Dark Age America' called out the problems of the original Concord and I think it applies to Boom as well. The authors argument being that Boeing pulling out of the 2707 SST project, while at the time was seen as a massive…
on “Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft” ↗It is in the book 'Dark Age America' by John Michael Greer, he does make mention of this that any one reading that book and is still fairly young, there will be a day when they have their last bit of seafood. That is one of those books,…
on “As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future” ↗