jenniferkobernik: (Default)
[personal profile] jenniferkobernik
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?

Date: 2022-04-19 08:07 pm (UTC)
prayergardens: (Default)
From: [personal profile] prayergardens


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.

Date: 2022-04-19 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] corrach_the_blue
How were you thinking of doing the discussion? A chat of some kind or in a comments thread here on dreamwidth? I’d be hard pressed to make a scheduled discussion but could participate in an asynchronous comment discussion

Date: 2022-04-20 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] corrach_the_blue
Sounds perfect. I’m definitely interested

Date: 2022-04-25 11:58 pm (UTC)
drhooves: (Default)
From: [personal profile] drhooves
I would also be interested, and consider the comments a "good enough" approach to the discussion aspect. Zoom meetings of course require scheduling, and I'm better at working on my own schedule, with much variation and little commitment...:-)

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.

Edited Date: 2022-04-25 11:58 pm (UTC)

Profile

jenniferkobernik: (Default)
Jen

October 2024

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
202122 23242526
2728293031  

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 11th, 2025 02:10 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios