Tag: My Adventure

It is perhaps not surprising that many otherwise sensible, knowledgeable people are now starting to talk seriously about the potential collapse of our civilization due to runaway global warming. After years of optimistically asserting that all we needed to do was cut back our carbon emissions by greening the economy ...

 The role of first the Druids and then Christian monks in reestablishing civilization. After a catastrophic collapse, not all societies re-emerge as a new civilization. The indigenous North American cultures and the Mayan civilizations, for example, virtually disappeared. A dark age, more often than not, spells death for a civilization. ...

Speculating about our uncertain future is today a vital undertaking. Or perhaps more specifically, it is necessary to think about cultural survival strategies and ways we might plan and prepare to build a new civilization on a strange, unfamiliar and dangerous planet. We might still continue to call that planet ...

Because we know so much about the collapse of the Roman Empire, there is much to learn from it. After Rome fell, a tremendous amount was forgotten for centuries: how too mine and smelt iron; how to make tools like hammers and anvils; the use of legumes in crop rotation ...