Another End of the World is Possible

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Pablo Servigne. Another End of the World is Possible

Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

ANOTHER END OF THE WORLD IS POSSIBLE. Living the collapse (and not merely surviving it)

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Notes

Preface Facing the collapse of our world

Notes

Introduction Learning to live with it

The change in attitude over the last few years

Surviving … is that all?

A branch of collapsology directed towards inner experience

Expanding out to ‘collapsosophy’

Breaking down walls

Notes

Part One Recovery

1Experiencing the impact

Living through the disasters

A global increase in the level of mental trauma

Storms of emotions present and to come

Giving people the bad news

Telling people that their future has gone

How to announce the bad news?

Notes

2Regaining our spirits

Resilience after disasters

Return to life

The need to anticipate

Living and dancing with the shadows

Suffering as connection

Mourning as metamorphosis

Notes

3Moving on

Mistrusting optimism

Mistrusting hope

What about the children?

Notes

Part Two New Horizons

4Integrating other ways of knowing

New scientific (in)disciplines

Problems which are too complex

Seeing further, thanks to the complexity sciences

We need intuition so we can act urgently

We need resilience to find our way through uncertainty

Outside the ivory tower

We need to cross academic disciplines, open up and break down walls

Include indigenous knowledges

Towards a post-normal science

Notes

5Opening to other visions of the world

From the universe to the pluriverse

Other ways to see the world

Diplomatic relations between modes of existence

The emergence of a pluriversal mycelium

Rebuilding over the ruins of capitalism

Defended zones, fungal territories

Alliances of Earth-Dwellers

Notes

6Telling other stories

‘Zombie’ stories

Stories as weapons for large-scale subversion. The fundamental need for stories

Reconquering the future: the importance of science fiction

Stories of times to come

The collapse as opening up possibilities

A mobilization – as in time of war?

The ‘Great Turning’ … To get ourselves moving

‘Uncivilisation’: let our imagination loose

Notes

Interlude: Entry to collapsosophy

Rediscovering connections through ecopsychology

Accepting our feminine side through ecofeminism

Notes

Part Three Collapsosophy

7Weaving connections

Between humans

A future of mutual aid?

Which groups?

With ‘other-than-humans’

Learning from other species

Meeting other species

With deep time

Just one second

With what is beyond us

The oceanic sentiment and the sacred

Notes

8Growing up and settling down

Emerging from patho-adolescence

Patho-adolescence

The passage to adulthood

Reconciling our masculine and feminine sides

Too much of the masculine

The power of reconciliation

Restoring the wild

The wild around us

The wild in us

Constituting ‘rough-weather networks’

Adult communities

The mycelium network keeps growing

Listening and sharing groups

Welcoming and being welcomed

Notes

Conclusion: Apocalypse or ‘happy collapse’?

The inner path and the outer effect

Survival as the first step

Making breaches and holding on to them

Notes

Afterword

Notes

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Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle

Translated by Geoffrey Samuel

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Those who have thought about how bad the situation might get ‘will not have an easy time coping with it, but they are not as apt to be overwhelmed by it as those who refuse to contemplate it’. 20 Between the person who is ready for action and the one who remains in denial, there is a whole range of people with various problems: those who just live through catastrophic events at a physical level, those who feel that something is wrong but cannot find the words for it (weak cognitive dissonance), those who know but cannot act in the way that they would wish (acute cognitive dissonance), and those who know and act but are exhausted or discouraged.

During these years of discussions with the public, we arrived at the same conclusion as that described by Carolyn Baker, who has accompanied many people struggling with the prospect of collapse: once the penny drops, most people don’t want to see more and more evidence (even if it was important to begin with); they want above all to learn how to live with the collapse. They become ‘collapsonauts’.

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