In this episode Eric reflects on different ways of framing and talking about collapse, using metamorphosis as a metaphor to help us make sense of collapse, choosing our metaphors for collapse wisely, and the various physical, ecological, and social forces that are driving today's changing world.

Outline

• 00:00 - 02:25 — Episode introduction
• 02:25 - 05:56 — Different ways of framing and talking about collapse
• 05:56 - 09:44 — Metamorphosis as a metaphor to help us make sense of collapse
• 09:44 - 16:17 — Adaptive cycle as a model to put collapse in a broader context
• 16:17 - 21:41 — Reckoning with our blindness to the ubiquity of change
• 21:41 - 24:23 — Choosing our metaphors for collapse wisely
• 24:23 - 29:48 — The role of energy, materials, and money in forcing social change
• 29:48 - 34:26 — The role of ecological and social turbulence in forcing social change
• 34:26 - 37:58 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• Quillwood Academy
• Overshoot Reading Group
• The Great Simplification (Nate Hagens' podcast)
• The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, by John Michael Greer
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, by James Howard Kunstler
• How Does A Caterpillar Turn Into A Butterfly, by Ferris Jabr (Scientific American)
• Adaptive Cycles (Resilience Alliance website)
• The adaptive cycle: more than a metaphor, by Shana M. Sundstrom and Craig R. Allen (Ecological Complexity)
• How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse, by John Michael Greer
• Analysis: World has already passed 'peak oil', BP figures reveal (Carbon Brief)
• Simon Michaux: "Minerals Blindness" (The Great Simplification podcast)
• Joe Rogan Experience #1245 - Andrew Yang (YouTube)
• The Social Dilemma (trailer on YouTube)

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