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The Long Descent : A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Long Descent : A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age about?
T he author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change. Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different, and the crisis may not easily be resolved. The Long Descent examines the basis of such fear through three core themes: Industrial society is following the same well-worn path that has led other civilizations into decline, a path involving a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by so many social critics today. The roots of the crisis lie in the cultural stories that shape the way we understand the world. Since problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them, these ways of thinking need to be replaced with others better suited to the needs of our time. It is too late for massive programs for top-down change; the change must come from individuals. Hope exists in actions that range from taking up a handicraft or adopting an "obsolete" technology, through planting an
Who reads The Long Descent : A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Michael Greer
- Publisher
- New Society Publishers
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781550923964
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Nature, History
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (551 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14