![]() ![]() The discussions range far and wide, with references stretching from the movies Avatar and The Road to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Milton Friedman. With our civilisation showing almost no sign of taking the climate crisis seriously, Read believes the first and second scenarios are most likely. ![]() Or third, our civilisation will somehow manage to transform itself. ![]() Second, civilisation will manage to seed a successor civilisation as it collapses. First, “civilisation could collapse utterly and terminally”. “We will most likely see 3-4 degrees of global over-heat at a minimum, and that is not compatible with civilisation as we know it.” This means our “industrial-growthist civilisation” will be transformed – it’s just a matter of how, Read argues. It will not last”, is Read’s stark analysis of humanity’s future (Alexander tends to ask the questions). It’s a very short, discursive book – made up of readable email exchanges and Skype conversations between Dr Rupert Read, a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and key figure in XR, and Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute in Melbourne. Book review: This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire – and what lies beyond by Rupert Read and Samuel AlexanderĮmbodying the honesty, alarm and radicalism of Extinction Rebellion (XR), This Civilisation Is Finished is a persuasive and passionate primer about the Climate Emergency the world faces. ![]()
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