It has been said before but it can be said again, Catton’s “Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change” is one of the great and profoundly disturbing books of the 20th century. It is a point of departure for anyone desiring, first and foremost, to view the world through an ecological lens, rather than a faulty and dubious political or cultural one. Catton was a big influence on some of our best contemporary writers on the phenomena of why civilizations tend to rise and then inevitably collapse. John Michael Greer, James Kunstler, Richard Heinberg, Paul Chefurka, George Mobus- among the many, and then Peter Goodchild who stated that his worldview was defined simply by those who have read “Overshoot" and those who haven’t. Unfortunately, awareness of
the existential predicament we face is not widely understood -so the road to crash and die-off is looking more and more like an eighteen lane, no speed limit, super highway leading straight to the Seneca Cliff. Hope for humanity? Probably not.
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