To: Permaculture ibiblio <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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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