Resources

Understanding collapse

10 reasons our civilisation will soon collapse. An evidence-based account about why global civilisation is in irreversible collapse. Covering: overshoot; the end of cheap fossil fuels; failure of green energy; dwindling resources; topsoil erosion; water shortages; climate change; biodiversity loss; migrant crisis; and, increasing conflict.
Professor Emeritus Bill Rees examines the idea that climate change is a society-wide misdiagnosis of the problem faced by humans in an ever shrinking ecosphere. He explains that our predicament is the ultimately fatal condition of overshoot – using energy and the biosphere faster than these can regenerate, and polluting beyond the biosphere’s assimilative capacity.
Associate Professor Simon Michaux – physicist and geologist – talks about the limits constraining an imagined energy transition. Finite minerals required for ‘renewables’ like solar and wind, do not exist in large enough quantities to enable such a transition. The number of new mines required if attempted is mind-blowing!
Join the crew at Collapse Pod as they explore the complex dimensions of collapse. The “Breaking Down: Collapse” podcast takes the complex concepts surrounding the ultimate collapse of modern industrial society and simplifies them so they’re easier to learn. 
The Nine Planetary Boundaries – an online article from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. It describes the boundaries and how we are already transgressing six of these.
A great explainer of collapse denial: An interview with the legendary Professor Sheldon Solomon based on his work in Terror Management Theory – how human behavior is conditioned by our awareness of mortality and the strategies we employ to cope with the fear of death.

Understanding Just Collapse

A Planned Collapse. WTF? ‘Planning’ and ‘collapse’ are not normally words that go together. In these unprecedented times, we explain not only how they do work together but how, in combination, they redefine the parameters of political struggle and activism, and how people can begin work for a planned collapse.

A #JustCollapse – WTF? ‘Justice has been understood as an important element of civilisational advancement and cohesion… A Just Collapse is about achieving outcomes based on decline rather than progress but is still a means of holding together what remains, as best we can.’

Just Collapse has developed a unique theory of change that addresses the realities of the 21st century and global collapse. Termed, Riding the Zeitgeist, this underpins how to turn our strategy into actions.

As we collapse, these free books – Tiny Book of Insurgent Planning and Little Book of Insurgent Planning – provide examples of what action we can take collectively. How we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays? How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we act to secure alternate sources?

In this short video, Associate Professor Kate Booth details how and why Insurgent Planning is a useful response for achieving socio-ecological justice in face of collapse.

Just Collapse interviews and forum recordings

LATEST INTERVIEW: Music for the End of the World – Part 1 and Part 2, with Chris Hamilton from 93.7 Edge FM.

LATEST FORUM: This is Collapse – what do we do now? University of Tasmania forum with A/Prof Kate Booth, Dr Tadzio Muller, and Tristan Sykes.

As climate collapse accelerates, what do we do? Human Insights podcast with James Cox.

Approaching collapse: Some do’s and don’ts. University forum with Just Collapse, Real GND, and Prof Bill Rees.

Changing the parameters of politics and activism. Interview with David Baum, Collapse Club.

Just Collapse #1. First recorded conversation with the Extinctionati.

Just Collapse #2. Second recorded conversation with the Extinctionati.

Illusion of techno-solutions – “we can’t swallow horses to solve this problem”. Interview with Jade Miles, Futuresteading.

Overshoot, Talk Collapse and Insurgent Planning. Interview with Matthew Azoulay, Epic Tomorrows.

Planning for a Just Collapse. Interview with Michael Bayliss and Mark Allen, Post Growth Australia.

Talk Collapse. Interview with David Baum and Jordan Perry, Collapse Club.

Talk Collapse: If we don’t talk, we won’t know, and we can’t plan. University forum with Richard Heinberg and Just Collapse.

Towards a Just Collapse. Interview with Eric Garza, Quillwood Academy.

Unprecedented territory. Podcast with the Sustainability Hour.

War on the World. Excerpt from World Beyond War’s “War in a Changing Climate” forum.