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# Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wonderful
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023*

Definitely gives food for thought on how to gage and prepare for a future without the world many of us grew up taking for granted. Excellent read!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It has risen in tandem with the dumping of chemical toxins and radioactive waste into the environment
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2017*

How do our nation's elites such as the Roosevelt's or the Bush's ascend rapidly to a pinnacle of power while exhibiting no expressions of moral or intellectual superlatives?  Simply, says author John Michael Greer:  Be a descendant of previous high profile functionaries such as those from the Roosevelt or Bush hierarchies and be supple enough "to do anything a well-trained cockatiel might do."Back to the theme of Dark Age America and the author's assessment of America's environmental disasters, the coming demographic collapse, the implosion of political and economic institutions, failed science and technologies, and the dangerous deceptions reflected in cultural shifts as they attempt to adapt to emerging economic, political, ecological and demographic changes.Cancer was uncommon during the nineteenth century but it has become the signature disease of industrial society.  It has risen in tandem with the dumping  of chemical toxins and radioactive waste into the environment."I sometime wonder if our descendants in the deindustrial world will appreciate that irony.  One way or another, I have no doubt that they'll have their own opinions about the bitter legacy we're leaving them.  As they think back on the people of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who gave them the barren soil and ravaged fisheries, the chaotic weather and rising oceans, the poisoned land and water, the birth defects and cancers that embitter their lives, how will they remember us?  I think I know. I think we will be the collective Satan of their mythology, the ancient race who ravaged the Earth and everything on it so they could enjoy lives of wretched excess at the future's expense  They will remember us as evil incarnate-- and from their perspective, it's by no means easy to dispute that judgment." p38Americans consume three times as much energy as do Europeans, per capita, and twenty times as much as the average Chinese.  Cheap energy is and has been the enabling force behind our industrial expansion. Author Greer is unequivocal when he posits that the carrying capacity of North America has been degraded by climate change, sea level rise, radiological and chemical pollution, and the depletion of fossil fuels needed for cheap energy.  War, famine and pestilence are common events in the evolution of civilizations and the industrial world will attract it's fair share.  Bad agri practices is a common factor in the collapse of civilizations (topsoil loss) while artificial fertilizers are made from nonrenewable resources and all are in depletion.In chapter 5 the author writes that none of the world's 20 biggest industries could make a profit or break even, if their costs included the damage they inflict on the environment.  On page 175 author Greer states that "none of the companies at the heart of the fracking boom ever turned a profit...."In the final pages of Dark Age America the author sets sail away from the book's core and transitions to an area that this writer would describe more as wishful thinking than contemporary connected realities.  Page 214 "...the challenge of our time is about on a par with other eras of decline and fall."  No, not even close!Today there are some seven-and-a half billion members of humanity on earth.  In 1900 there were an estimated 800 million.  But wait!  The World Health Organization expects that number to be on a trajectory to nine or ten billion by 2150That unfettered expansion of humanity will be concentrated in squalid crowded megacities where drug resistant microbes reproduce in evolutionary minutes as expressed in resurging tuberculosis and other assaults from the unseen world.  Microbes today have the ability to infest billions of people as they move freely globally compared to the millions that traveled by land, sea and air a century ago.  Not only have the numbers changed but demographics reflect behaviors that are more violence prone, are religiously and culturally intolerant, and do not readily integrate with western values.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A flash in the pan
  

*by M***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2020*

The title is unsettling, but even more so are the details the author lays out in this book. He does not mince words and provides a fairly broad arc across the history of civilizations that points to one very likely outcome of western civilization and that in North America in particular--a gradual, but uneven decline as cheap energy comes to an end and the effects of burning vast stores of million years worth of organic carbon become very evident.Considering the age of Earth, our current civilization has lasted less than a blink of an eye. One takeaway from this book is that we collectively have an enormous blind spot for this truth, partially because of our inherent tendency to see the future rosier than it is, partially because we've surrendered a lot of common sense by being perpetually distracted. Cheap energy has produced a behemoth of cultural knickknack and "intermediation." This has ensured that most of those fortunate enough to live in societies in which toilets flush, lights can be turned on or off by switches, and calories from food are easy to come by have cultivated the idea that progress is inevitable and will lead to bigger and better things (Hegelian thought has cast a fairly long shadow into all political corners, as the author also discusses).Greer pops this illusion while acknowledging that many will dismiss his predictions as doomsaying. I disagree with a number of things he's predicting or suggesting as remedies (I'm not sure that book printing will pull us out of our predicament, but I sure hope so). And I wish he would have said a little more about why alternative energy sources such as wind and solar couldn't at least buffer the blow of dwindling energy supply. I suspect it's because, as the author repeatedly emphasizes, petrochemicals are extremely energy dense, and whenever there's a new source of available energy, its consumption goes up to unsustainable levels. But the main point of the book would have been more convincing had the author discussed this at some greater length (though, besides these fairly minor niggles, it's well-nigh impossible to muster arguments that would rebut the central thesis of the book).The author's main proposed approach, aptly termed LESS (less energy, stuff, and stimulation), resonates with me. But anyone old enough to remember Jimmy Carter's "malaise speech" knows that it's unlikely to become popular not to mention be as widely adopted as it would need to be to bring about the changes needed to avert the impending tragedy that will await many of us. But it really should be, not only because Greer proposes it, but because energy conservation and living modestly and more in the present are powerful tried-and-true remedies used for times immemorial.

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