Building a
resilient
economy
The sh*t's ready.The fan's ready.
Are you?
It is estimated that we'll need as much energy and material — think oil, coal, copper, trees, soil, sand — as we've used in the past ten thousand years.
The exponential growth economy is furiously eroding the very foundation it relies on. We’re entering an era of instability. A new reality for us to adapt to.
We've moved from a small world on a big planet, to a big world on a small planet.
Modern life functions on a complex — and mostly invisible — web of labour, materials and energy. Consider tonight’s dinner, where the average ingredient will have travelled roughly 2,500 km to reach your plate. Or the 400-500 supporting your day-to-day living.
We all need to ask ourselves how ready we are for the likely turmoil we’ll be facing in the future.
Questions like these expose how we depend on a system that is posed to fail.
So how do we design one that’s future-proof? That’s the biggest question of all.
Imagine one key supply chain you depend on is disrupted long-term. What’s your reaction?
Would you, and your community, cope if food deliveries stopped coming regularly?
If a cyber attack took out the internet for a week, how would life be without your smartphone, digital services, AI and social media?
How would you handle it if electricity and fuel became 2x more expensive?
A system optimized for one set of conditions becomes brittle when those conditions change.
What can we actually do
What worked in yesterday's economy won't work in tomorrow's. That bit we know.
Building a resilient economy, one that operates within planetary boundaries, needs new ideas. And that demands new characteristics and principles.
Collapse now and beat the rush!
Build resilience and robustness as soon as right now. Get ahead with these starting points.
Take a look at some examples of how resilience can be applied in practise.