GROUNDBREAKING: The Post Carbon Institute just released a comprehensive analysis of the severity of our predicament. “There is as yet little recognition that these challenges are systemic, entrenched, and interrelated. It’s not just the public or policymakers who are failing to see the connections. Even among those working on the frontline of individual environmental or social issues, few seem to recognize their chosen issue within the context of complex interactions between numerous environmental and social systems, all undergoing varying degrees of destabilization, breakdown, or collapse.”
In this 67 page document, we particularly recommend: ‘The spectrum of destabilization > breakdown > collapse’ (p.27) and ‘What you can do’ (pp.45-50) which support our #TalkCollapse campaign and calls for #InsurgentPlanning as a response to government failure.
Just Collapse 
Am I missing something? From what I can see, this report entirely omits discussion of economic collapse, which is as critical a part of the polycrisis as ecological and social collapse, and which is likely to be the first domino to fall, as markets react to declining availability of cheap energy, and the un-repayability of our staggering collective debt. Any thoughts on why this isn’t taken into consideration?
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Thanks Dave. There isn’t much discussion on economic collapse, though there is a mention that its part of the mix: “Societies long ago recognized the destabilizing results of this self-reinforcing feedback process, and sought ways to counteract it through cultural taboos against hoarding wealth, debt jubilees, constitutional limits on political power, the
establishment of trade unions, and other means. Nevertheless, throughout history, most decisive checks on unequal social power have occurred not by way of social innovation, but as a result of war, revolution, or economic collapse. The wealthy exploit resources and labor until the social and ecological systems can tolerate no further exploitation.”
Perhaps there just wasn’t room to cover all the dimensions of unfolding collapse?
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