Hurtling into chaos
The sh*t's ready. The fan's ready.Are you?
Over the next thirty years we'll as much energy and material — think oil, coal, copper, trees, soil, sand — as we've used in the past ten thousand years.
At the same time, the economy is stepping on the (literal) exponential gas pedal. Furiously eroding the very foundation it relies on.
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, material 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.
Ask yourself: how will your life look when the global machine grinds to a halt?
Questions like these expose how much we depend on a system widely expected to fail.
So how do we design one that's future-proof? That's the biggest question of all.
Material, energy and complex supply chain flows keep work working. The one you depend on most is disturbed, long-term. What's your reaction?
How much would your life change if you knew that in just two years, grocery stores would run out of food?
If a cyber attack took out the internet for a week, how would life be without your smartphone, digital services, AI and social media?
If your access to energy halved overnight, how well would you cope?
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.
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