John Michael Greer is a scholar of ecological history, and an internationally renowned peak oil theorist. He is the author of The Long Descent and The Ecotechnic Future. His blog, "The Archdruid Report," has become one of the most widely cited online resources dealing with the future of industrial society. Maurita Corcoran and her husband have been in recovery for more than a dozen years. They have raised four children, and they remain happily married.
Introduction: A Guide for the Perplexed
p. 1
The Failure of Economics
p. 11
The illusion ofInvincibility
p. 14
The Failure of Markets
p. 19
Harnessing Hippogriffs
p. 23
The Market as Commons
p. 27
Energy's Rules
p. 30
Lies and Statistics
p. 33
Economic Superstitions
p. 39
Undead Money
p. 43
The Three Economies
p. 49
The Power of Paradigms
p. 54
Primary and Secondary Goods
p. 59
Exchange Value and Nature's Wealth
p. 62
The Anti-Ecology of Money
p. 68
The Finance Trap
p. 74
Before Money
p. 78
The Metaphysics of Money
p. 85
The Metastasis of Money
p. 92
The Flight into Abstraction
p. 98
The Twilight of Money
p. 103
The Money Bubble
p. 105
The End of Investment
p. 109
The Wealth Of Nature
The Price of Energy
p. 115
Energy Follows Its Bliss
p. 120
A Crisis of Concentration
p. 127
Barbarism and Good Brandy
p. 131
Working With Diffuse Energy
p. 136
The Economics of Entropy
p. 144
The Appropriate Tools
p. 149
The End of the Information Age
p. 155
The Economics of Contraction
p. 160
The Twilight of the Machine
p. 164
Toward Appropriate Technologies
p. 170
Becoming a Third World Country
p. 178
The Twilight of the American Empire
p. 183
Survival Isn't Cost Effective
p. 187
The Road Ahead
p. 191
Remembering What Worked
p. 194
Defending the Commons
p. 198
Taxing the Right Things
p. 202
Housebreaking the Corporations
p. 207
A Crisis of Complexity
p. 213
Back to the Future
p. 219
A Future of Victory Gardens
p. 222
After Retirement
p. 229
Afterword: Small Is Beautiful
p. 233
Notes
p. 245
Bibliography
p. 251
Index
p. 257
About the Author
p. 263
Introduction
p. 1
Hell on Earth
The Set Up
p. 5
The Disclosure
p. 23
The Desert of Recovery
My New Reality
p. 35
Digging Deeper
p. 45
Real Life Begins in Tucson
p. 55
Going Home
p. 67
Growing Pains
p. 83
A Spiritual Awakening
p. 95
Who's Your Gail?
p. 109
A New Low
p. 121
Healing
Getting Over Myself
p. 141
Never Say Never
p. 167
A New Day
p. 195
Eight Challenges to Consider
p. 211
About the Author
p. 225
ATribute
p. 227
Acknowledgments
p. 231
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