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Unstoppable Collapse - How to avoid the worst - Michael Dowd It is difficult to know what to make of someone who seems to revel in gloom and doom. The central thesis of this and other videos that Dowd has produced is that the much of the life of the natural world and our civilisation has already pas...

I have seen the video linked to by George in his latest post. If Roger Hallam wasn't such a terrible speaker it might have been a quite interesting talk, but I'm not sure that waiting for a 'prophetic transformation' as a means of bringing about the concerted and mass action required to combat clima...

I heard Robin McAlpine's talk in Inverness last December, I have looked at lots of stuff on the Common Weal website , read the 'Common Home Plan' book, and just listened to the talk again on the video. It seems to me that Common Weal shares many of the aims and concerns of the Transition movement, w...

'Planet of the Humans' Executive Producer Michael Moore Director Jeff Gibbs I have used a link provided by George to view the film. For whatever reasons, this now seems difficult to do, at least without paying. Trying to use the same link a few days later gave the message saying the video was no lon...

Thanks, George,

I'm glad you think Robin McAlpine's talk will be a good thing to show and discuss.

Best wishes to all at Planet Sutherland,

Peter.

I don't know what you know or think of Common Weal, but as I suggested in my Overshoot post, their 'Our Common Home' plan seems to me to be one of the more detailed and better thought out of the 'Green New Deals' currently being proposed (there's some stuff on the TBI website at Climate change / Gre...

Perhaps the significance of Donella Meadows' talk is not so much the actual message she was putting across as the fact that nearly fifty years later we have not even begun to pay serious attention to the problems of resource depletion and environmental damage, even with the current increased awarene...