![]() ![]() With unremitting realism and yet defiant positivity, they engage each other in uncomfortable conversations about the end of Empire and what lies beyond. This Civilisation is Finished by Rupert Read, 9780994282835, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. How can humanity mindfully navigate the inevitable descent ahead? Two critical thinkers here remove the rose-tinted glasses of much social and environmental commentary. ![]() He’s a thinker, an author, a blogger and a climate and environmental campaigner. Rupert Read is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia. This book is for those ready to accept the full gravity of the human predicament - and to consider what in the world is to be done. So, as a glass half full kind of person, I naturally prefer the position of Rupert Read over that of Guy McPherson on this most crucial of all topics. This Civilisation is Finished, by Rupert Read In Conversation My guest this week is someone who stands at all of those intersections. ![]() Unless humanity does something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse, which could mean a harrowing die-off of billions of people. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth's climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. ![]()
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