E se la nostra civiltà crollasse? Non in diversi secoli, ma adesso, nel corso della nostra vita. Lontano dalle previsioni Maya e da altre escatologie millenarie, un numero crescente di autori, scienziati e istituzioni annuncia la fine della civiltà industriale sviluppatasi negli ultimi due secoli. Cosa dobbiamo pensare di queste drammatiche previsioni? In questo libro, Pablo Servigne e Raphaël Stevens analizzano le ragioni di un possibile crollo del sistema e propongono una  panoramica interdisciplinare di quella disciplina ormai nota come "collassologia". Articolando e dando fondamento a intuizioni condivise da molti di noi, rendono immediatamente leggibili i fenomeni di "crisi" che viviamo e i problemi principali del nostro tempo. E ci mostrano come la vera utopia, oggi, sia diventata la convinzione che tutto possa andare avanti come prima. Il collasso è l'orizzonte della nostra generazione, è l'inizio del suo futuro. Cosa succederà dopo?

Convivere con la catastrofe - Piccolo manuale di collassologia

Nourrir l'Europe en temps de crise

Comment continuer à nourrir la population de nos régions une fois que notre système alimentaire industriel, devenu très vulnérable à cause de sa dépendance au pétrole, aura atteint ses limites ? Comment anticiper simultanément les chocs climatiques, la fin des énergies fossiles et le manque de terres fertiles ? Après avoir dressé le constat accablant et sans concession de la fragilité de notre situation, Pablo Servigne propose un tour d'horizon des pistes et solutions déjà existantes...

Et si notre civilisation s'effondrait ? Non pas dans plusieurs siècles, mais de notre vivant. Loin des prédictions Maya et autres eschatologies millénaristes, un nombre croissant d'auteurs, de scientifiques et d'institutions annoncent la fin de la civilisation industrielle, voire la fin des conditions propices à la vie telle que nous l'avons connue.

Pablo Servigne et Raphaël Stevens décortiquent les ressorts d'un possible effondrement et proposent un tour d'horizon pluridisciplinaire de ce sujet qu'ils nomment la « collapsologie ». Aujourd'hui, l'utopie a changé de camp : est utopiste celui qui croit que tout peut continuer comme avant. L'effondrement est l'horizon de notre génération, c'est le début de son avenir. Qu'y aura-t-il après ? Tout cela reste à penser, à imaginer, et à vivre...

Comment tout peut s'effondrer : petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes

What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment.In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people's ordinary experiences - joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end - it's the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.

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