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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Humanity is on the very edge of an economic, social, environmental and resource-related crisis of a scale probably unprecedented in recorded human history. In other words humanity now faces an emergency situation. It is not even any run-of-the-mill emergency that now looms, but one which threatens to imperil millennia-long achievements in knowledge, social cohesion and interaction, and the very fabric of civilisation.
'Fleeing Vesuvius' painstaking sets out the nature of the multi-faceted problem, its causes, consequences and likely outcomes, and offers some much needed comforts, small as they inevitably are, to those bravely facing up to the task of post-crash reconstruction.
This is a truly impressive publication, probably the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its genre - the kind which, if you haven't read, you run the risk of not being up to speed with the state of the world, or to the challenges facing it. I can't say it more clearly than that.
Andy Wilson, The Sustainability Institute
'Fleeing Vesuvius' painstaking sets out the nature of the multi-faceted problem, its causes, consequences and likely outcomes, and offers some much needed comforts, small as they inevitably are, to those bravely facing up to the task of post-crash reconstruction.
This is a truly impressive publication, probably the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its genre - the kind which, if you haven't read, you run the risk of not being up to speed with the state of the world, or to the challenges facing it. I can't say it more clearly than that.
Andy Wilson, The Sustainability Institute
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I approached this book as a weighty tome from the intellectual-heavy organisation Feasta. They produce very well researched writings on all aspects of our endangered environment covering climate change, resource depletion and the economic/banking consequences of this degradation. As an ordinary citizen who is very concerned at what is happening to our planet, Fleeing Vesuvius was a great read (but frightening) and did not overwhelm me with jargon and technical matter. One can browse in an informative and stimulating way between detailed articles or more general commentary on environment issues. One chapter on the concept of "enough" had me nodding my head vigorously after every sentence. I also liked the philosophical and emotional discussion on our ecological predictaments. All in all, I heartily recommend this important book to both professional and general readers who are interested in the future of our planet and mankind's place on it.
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25 Mar 2011
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The father of neo-liberalism and laissez-faire economics , Milton Friedman , said that " Only a crisis- real or perceived- produces real change. Our basic function is to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable."
As we stand today facing an angry planet comes this important book laying out a road map of hope for humanity and describing the hard work ahead. The book includes the necessary alternatives in economics, energy and most importantly human behavior that could make possible a soft landing from our current energy and resource crisis.
Unlike the recent post-disaster policies imposed by force in the US and around the globe, so well described by Naomi Klein in Shock Doctrine, the policies advanced here by the authors are developed in the open and will benefit all people and not just a privileged minority. The wider the audience for these ideas the greater our chances of collective survival.
As we stand today facing an angry planet comes this important book laying out a road map of hope for humanity and describing the hard work ahead. The book includes the necessary alternatives in economics, energy and most importantly human behavior that could make possible a soft landing from our current energy and resource crisis.
Unlike the recent post-disaster policies imposed by force in the US and around the globe, so well described by Naomi Klein in Shock Doctrine, the policies advanced here by the authors are developed in the open and will benefit all people and not just a privileged minority. The wider the audience for these ideas the greater our chances of collective survival.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Essential Reading for the 21st Century
25 May 2011
This collection of essays is informative and enlightening, and at the same time, shocking and uplifting. The title alludes to the fact that the residents of Pompeii had heard rumblings and tremors long before Mount Vesuvius erupted but most people ignored them before the catastophic event that buried the city. Similarly, many people today think we can go on forever burning oil and coal-based fuels (i.e. fossil fuels) and everything will be fine. We can't and it won't. Oil is a finite, dirty resource and our society and economy is utterly dependent on it to exist. As oil runs out, as it surely will in the next 50 years, our economy will collapse as well. However, these essays aren't all gloom and doom. There are refreshingly innovative methods of building and sustaining a non-carbon-based society described in this book. I'm sure there will be naysayers who will read this and say its all bunk, but the facts are not on their side. Anyone who wants to see what the future looks like unless we radically change our mindsets and lifestyles should read this book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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25 Aug 2011
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This is not a primer for beginners to the subject of Peak Oil. It is for folks who have absorbed the basics and are looking for more in depth thinking on all the different aspects of powerdown. The articles vary widely. There is something for everyone but not for the beginner.
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