John Michael Greer - The Catabolic Collapse Of Civilization (Part 2)

Is the collapse of modern civilization already underway? John Michael Greer explains the "Catabolic Collapse" stair-step model of decline and we discuss living standards, corporate & financial losses, inflation, energy costs, and how overall socioeconomic complexity contributes to the decline process. In today's interview, we address key audience questions related to a number of topics from our first interview, including: anthropogenic climate change, corporate & financial losses, inflation, masking of decline issues through automation and privatization, standards of living and "side gigs", the relative importance of peak oil, and the contributions of complexity, and much more. John Michael Greer is an accomplished author who writes on ecology, politics, appropriate technology, oil depletion and the occult. He has published dozens of both books and articles, many of them on peak oil, economics, history, philosophy and related topics. In a 2005 abstract, called "How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse", he described an ecological model of collapse in which production fails to meet maintenance requirements for existing capital, which we'll be discussing today. Links & Resources: Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush: https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Now-Avoid-Rush-Archdruid/dp/0692389458 John Michael Greer Blog at Ecosophia: https://www.ecosophia.net/ P2P Foundation, Catabolic Collapse: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Catabolic_Collapse List of Books On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/John-Michael-Greer/e/B001IOFELW