“These problems [of resource depletion, continued population growth,
declining per-capita food production, global climate change and other signs
of environmental degradation, unsustainable levels of US debt and a
potential dollar collapse, and international political instability] are related to
each other in complex, often mutually reinforcing ways. Taken together, they
constitute the most severe challenge our species has ever faced. They
represent not merely a likely culmination of human history; in their ongoing
and potential environmental impacts, they also may collectively signal one of
the most momentous events in all of geological time.”
Richard Heinberg, Powerdown.
Basically, the idea I am going to explore here is how to reverse (that is, completely turn
around) your ideas about what you think
of as “moving
up
in the
world”.
The central concept of the book is the idea of reversal: For the whole entire history of humanity (on average, as
there have been a few ups and downs within this history) we have had a
continuously increasing supply of available energy and other resources. This is about to change, permanently, for the simple fact that absolute
global limits are now being reached. Once this changes, many — a great
many — other things will also change.
For the last several hundred years (perhaps since the Renaissance
period around the 1500s) our civilisation has experienced basically
continuous growth. With a few ups and downs the human race has experienced continuous growth for the last few thousand years. This growth has accelerated rapidly with the discovery
of oil in the mid 1800s, and the widespread utilisation of oil beginning
in the first decades of the 1900s.
With the peaking of world resource consumption, all this is about
to change.
Consider that each modern person uses many times more energy and resources (estimated at as much as 100 times more for industrialised countries) compared to a person in ancient times. Consider also how the number of people has increased so dramatically. When you combine these two factors, you get this: For business as usual to continue for just another few decades, the human race will require more resources than it has used in all of human history up till now. If this sounds unbelievable, ask a mathematician (any high-school maths teacher will do nicely) to confirm that in exponential growth, the area under the graph in just one doubling period is equal to the entire area under the graph for all the previous time before that.
Consider also that we have used something like 80% of the forests, 80% of the topsoil, and more than half of fresh water, fossil fuels, and many other critical resources that existed before we had this growth spurt. Our extreme need for resources (because of the high population and the high resource use per person), plus the fact that these resources are well into their last half of supply, means there are going to be big changes in the world.
What it means is that the all-time curve of global economic growth, which we have ridden since the first days of civilisation, is about to completely and permanently reverse.
Really stop and think about this for just a minute.
How This Will Affect You
Because of this all-time reversal of energy consumption and economic growth, much of the thoughts, opinions, beliefs, ideas, motives, drives, emotions and many other things in your mind will no longer be useful in the form that they are in. In fact many of them will be completely backwards. This is because you have acquired these thoughts (and emotions, ideas, and habits) within the context of a certain type of world.
In that world, there was more and more energy and material resources available for consumption as time went on. Once this physical reality changes — because population growth and resource and energy consumption per person has exceeded the capacity of the planet to provide us with more and more energy and resources — a lot of what makes up the thought and habit patterns your mind has learned will be outdated.
In the future, on the downslope of the global production/consumption
curve, the opposite effects will come into play. That is,
if you want to “move up in the world”, many of your objectives in
the future
will be completely different to what they have been in the previous (i.e.
up-till-now) and familiar situation of ongoing growth and continuously increasing consumption.
To remedy this situation is the “Reversing
Your Thinking” that is the subject ofmy book.
The knowledge that is now available to you was pieced together from literally thousands of separate sources over a period of several years of diligent research, trial and error, and practice. I guarantee that you will not find this information anywhere else.
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