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I have a few books I’d like to get around to reading that deal with societal decline, crises, building resilience, etc. I was thinking that if a few people here were interested, we could potentially agree on a book and then read and discuss a chapter a week or so.
Some of the books I have/want to read:
Volume 1 of Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison
Where the Wasteland Ends by Theodore Roszak
Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman
*Overshoot by William Catton Jr.
*The Limits of Growth
*Living in the Long Emergency by Jim Kunstler
*suggested in the comments
And I’m open to other suggestions. Anyone interested?
Some of the books I have/want to read:
Volume 1 of Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison
Where the Wasteland Ends by Theodore Roszak
Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman
*Overshoot by William Catton Jr.
*The Limits of Growth
*Living in the Long Emergency by Jim Kunstler
*suggested in the comments
And I’m open to other suggestions. Anyone interested?
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Date: 2022-04-19 08:07 pm (UTC)It's a great idea! I've read a few of those books sometime ago and wouldn't mind revisiting any of them. I also got a lot out of the William Catton book, Overshoot mentioned by JMG numerous times.
I just got one one of the Rosemary Sutcliff books about post-Roman Britain mentioned in a blog comments somewhere. I'd put in a vote for historical fiction as part of learning about resilient lifestyles.
I am very interested but would probably only make 50% of the discussions due to work and family.
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Date: 2022-04-25 11:58 pm (UTC)The Limits of Growth is another higher level view, but is kinda dry.
Living in the Long Emergency by Jim Kunstler provides some working examples of how to adapt to the future in terms of skills.
The Survivor Library has tons of old books no longer in copyright, many topics, and all down-loadable:
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library-download.html
You could spend a lifetime just reading those resources.
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Date: 2022-05-04 03:55 pm (UTC)Thank you for those recommendations!