Collapse and Recovery

Tim Garrett

How many invisible "energy slave" workers does it take to fuel our modern lifestyles? Comic about Buckminster Fuller and fossil fuel energy.

In the time of this great, strange plague, Paul Kingsnorth returns to the Celtic myth of Finnegas, the woodland hermit who devoted his life to catching and eating the salmon that contained the wisdom of the world.

Anthropogenic disruption of the carbon cycle

"The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I came to see them as a state’s attempt to make a society legible, to arrange the population in ways that simplified the classic state functions of taxation, conscription, and prevention of rebellion. Having begun to think in these terms, I began to see legibility as a central problem in statecraft. The pre-modern state was, in many crucial respects, particularly blind; it knew precious little about its subjects, their wealth, their landholdings and yields, their location, their very identity. It lacked anything like a detailed “map” of its terrain and its people."

A collection of good books and essays, consolidated for easy reference