Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)
The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.

As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just to survive the collapse but to live it?

In this book, the sequel to How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions – with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.

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Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)
The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.

As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just to survive the collapse but to live it?

In this book, the sequel to How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions – with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.

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Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

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Overview

The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.

As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just to survive the collapse but to live it?

In this book, the sequel to How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions – with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781509544660
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 02/01/2021
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Pablo Servigne is an agronomist with a PhD in biology. 
Raphaël Stevens is an eco-adviser and co-founder of the consulting office Greenloop.
Gauthier Chapelle is an agronomist, co-founder of Greenloop and founder of Biomimicry Europa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Foreword Dominique Bourg xiv

Preface xviii

Introduction: Learning to live with it 1

The change in attitude over the last few years 3

Surviving … is that all? 5

A branch of collapsology directed towards inner experience 9

Expanding out to 'collapsosophy' 11

Breaking down walls 16

Part 1 Recovery

1 Experiencing the impact 21

Living through the disasters 22

Giving people the bad news 32

2 Regaining our spirits 41

Resilience after disasters 41

Living and dancing with the shadows 46

3 Moving on 55

Mistrusting optimism 56

Mistrusting hope 60

What about the children? 64

Part 2 New Horizons

4 Integrating other ways of knowing 71

New scientific (in)disciplines 72

Outside the ivory tower 84

Towards a post-normal science 89

5 Opening to other visions of the world 92

From the universe to the pluriverse 93

The emergence of a pluriversal mycelium 103

6 Telling other stories 111

'Zombie' stories 112

Stories as weapons for large-scale subversion 114

Stories of times to come 120

Interlude: Entry to collapsosophy 129

Rediscovering connections through ecopsychology 130

Accepting our feminine side through ecofeminism 132

Part 3 Collapsosophy

7 Weaving connections 137

Between humans 138

With 'other-than-humans' 145

With deep time 152

With what is beyond us 156

8 Growing up and settling down 162

Emerging from patho-adolescence 163

Reconciling our masculine and feminine sides 168

Restoring the wild 176

Constituting 'rough-weather networks' 182

Conclusion: Apocalypse or 'happy collapse'? 191

The inner path and the outer effect 195

Survival as the first step 197

Making breaches and holding on to them 199

Afterword Cyril Dion 202

Notes 208

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