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The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning A Post-Peak World (2009)

by John Michael Greer(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0865716390 (ISBN13: 9780865716391)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

New Society Publishers

review 1: Greer writes with a mild humor, and a strong sense of opportunity lost. He brings together in this book a broad ranging knowledge of history, philosophy and human behavior. The book acts both as a prediction of what the future might bring, and a rough outline of how we can act now to make the future a little better. The future Greer predicts is not a 'next year' or 'next decade' view however. The actions he recommends are for preserving a world for our children's children's children, and on to the next civilization that might take the place of our own.One foible I felt in Greer's writing was a constant sniping about the chance that was lost during the Reagan era energy glut. Greer explains how this period of excess, experienced around the world but especially in the US, ha... mores now eliminated many options we may have had for building a strong future. I felt this story became tiresome, continually appearing in abbreviated form through most parts of the book, usually in the tone of regret, scorn, or anger. The long view of this book is well considered, and carefully constructed. The advice is gently given, and backed by examples from historical declines of earlier civilizations. Greer is a fan of 'dissensus', so this book does not give a strong prescription, just guidance on one of many ways we can help the future children of our world.
review 2: In all honesty, the books that John Michael Greer draws from his weekly blog posts on the Archdruid Report run together in my memory. This is the middle book in a sequence of three (The Long Descent, The Ecotechnic Future, and The Wealth of Nature) which are not officially a series but which bring together in book form the themes that JMG has been developing in his blog over the last few years. I really don't mind in the least when I'm reading along in one of his books and I suddenly realize that I'm reading something that I'd read on his blog a year or so back. He is a very good writer and his treatments of the topics of ecology, collapse, and appropriate technology are well worth re-visiting after an interval of a year or so. When I receive a new JMG book, it typically rises to the top of my reading list and frequently even muscles aside whatever book I had been reading when his new offering turned up in my mailbox. less

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