Books we've read so far...
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January 2024 - A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel
December 2023 - Building Tomorrow: Averting Environmental Crisis With a New Economic System by Paddy Le Flufy
November 2023 - Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira. - Discussion area
October 2023 - Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth. - Discussion area
September 2023 - Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton Jr. - Discussion area
August 2023 - How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm - Discussion area
April 2023 - The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg - Discussion area
March 2023 - Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince. - Discussion area
February 2023 - Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith. - Discussion area
January 2023 - Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler. - Discussion area
December 2022 - On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason. - Discussion area
November 2022 - The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter, and Matthias Schmelzer. - Discussion area
October 2022 - Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot. - Discussion area
September 2022 - Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert. - Discussion area
August 2022 - The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. - Discussion area
June 2022 - On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein. - Discussion area
April 2022 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Discussion area
March 2022 - Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel - Discussion area
February 2022 - The New Climate War: The Fight To Take Back Our Planet by Michael E Mann - Discussion area
January 2022 - Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katherine Hayhoe. - Discussion area.
I finally found this obscure spot for general comments. Some excerpts from Bendell, Jem. Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse , which I will be nominating:
The statement that we must have hope is widely heard in modern societies—and widely accepted as a good thing. That is not a view shared by many ancient wisdom traditions, such as Buddhism, which regard hope as a thought pattern that takes us away from meeting reality as we find it.
One effect of realizing the predicament of modern societies is that people with a Western upbringing begin to sense how the dominant culture is actually ‘omnicidal’—leading to the mass extinction of life on Earth and threatening the survival of our own species.
Continued destruction and pollution is a really bad idea. But our monetary system demands of us exactly that.
Some economists dismiss the impact of climate on agriculture, because it is a small part of the economy, thereby ignoring where people will get their food from. One Nobel economics prize winner estimated that even four degrees of average warming above pre-industrial levels would be fine for humanity.
Only if there is war, or the threat of war, will a government be able to justify military spending.
We do not actually know what unmanipulated and uncoerced humans might do about our planetary predicament, but now would be a good time find out.
I think this month's book, Fire is absolutely superb and I am devastated that I probably won't be able to join next week. I am going on a dance retreat and Thursday is the first night when everyone gets to know each other. I want to try and sneak out and connect if I can. I really want to meet the author. What an. incredible piece of writing! What did other's think.