The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071KQNT6B |
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| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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John lives in Cumberland, MD.. He is a certified Master Conserver, an organic gardener, and has been active in the alternative spirituality movement for more than 25 years. John Michael Greer is a scholar of ecological history, an award-winning author and an internationally renowned Peak Oil theorist who
Industrial society is trying to "progress" without bothering to ask whether any sane person would want to live in the world that progress is creating. When every upgrade has more bugs and fewer benefits than the last, and "new" no longer means "improved," it's time to challenge the mythology of progress and go back to what works.
To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. Clear signs among many that blind faith in progress is faltering and opening up the possibility that the best way forward may well involve going back.A must-read for anyone willing to think the unthinkable and embrace the possibilities of a retro future.. It starts from the recognition that older technologies generally use fewer resources and cost less than modern eq