Collapse
see
- Joseph Tainter's Collapse Of Complex Societies.
- James Howard Kunstler's Long Emergency
- Jane Jacobs' Dark Age Ahead (Dark Age)
- Dmitry Orlov's Reinventing Collapse
- 2009-06-16-RafordCollapseDynamics
- Failed State
- Transition Town
- Resilient Community
- William Gibson's Jackpot
I hope the current/near-future "unpleasantness" will hasten the Economic Transition to a Network Economy. But that process will be messier than childbirth. And that "optimism" depends on not having an Energy-inflation crash.
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