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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Social collapse best practices
  • Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:02:12 -0500

With his soft-spoken but razor-edged wit Dmitri Orlov offers:

*Social collapse best practices*
/The following talk was given on February 13, 2009, at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, to an audience of 550 people.
/http://www.energybulletin.net/node/48082

After reading this lengthy talk you'll understand why Sharon Astyk offered the following review of his book, /Reinventing Collapse/ <http://astore.amazon.com/booksptp-20/detail/0865716064>:
Heretical, hysterically funny, always on point, deeply perceptive - Dmitry Orlov has been through a societal collapse and come out the other side. On that other side is a fascinating view of contemporary American society, a good deal of wisdom and a surprising amount of hope - not that some magical transformation will fix everything for us, but that even collapse of empire is not the end of the world.

Albert Bates said:
...Orlov has set out to write a gloomy comparision of what happened in Russia at the end of the Soviet Empire and how ill-prepared the American Empire is for the same fate, and ended up writing something wickedly funny, profoundly hopeful and filled with good advice. His advice is not to avoid collapse, that would be futile, but to prosper and thrive in the midst of it.

Bart Anderson noted:
Unlike many commentators, Orlov has seen collapse first hand...there aren't too many books about the impending collapse of civilization that make you laugh out loud, but /Reinventing Collapse/ <http://astore.amazon.com/booksptp-20/detail/0865716064> is one of them.
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Keith Johnson
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  • [permaculture] Social collapse best practices, Keith Johnson, 02/28/2009

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