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Home The Great Disruption?

The Great Disruption?

Submitted by Dave-Martin on Fri, 08/04/2011 - 01:01

Are we facing a Great Disruption? A forced change to our whole way of life brought about by climate change, peak oil and global food shortages? Paul Gilding, plugging his new book (appropriately titled - The Great Disruption") on the Climate Spectator certainly thinks so -

Why didn’t more of us see it coming? After all, the signals have been clear enough – signals that the ecological system that supports human society is hitting its limits, groaning under the strain of an economy simply too big for the planet. But we didn’t and, as a result, the time to act preventatively has past.

Now we must brace for impact. Now comes The Great Disruption.

It is true that the coming years won’t be pleasant, as our society and economy hits the wall and then realigns around what was always an obvious reality: You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet. Not ‘should not’, or ‘better not’, but cannot

Sound like that book may well be worth a read. Full article here - http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/great-disruption

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