JMG on the Legalize Freedom podcast

[ecosophia]

Me talking with the irrepressible Greg Moffitt about what comes after the accelerating decline and impending fall of industrial civilization. Cheery stuff, granted, but livened up with dollops of deindustrial science fiction, among other things. Check it out:

http://legalise-freedom.com/radio/john-michael-greer-beyond-collapse-the-future-of-civilization/

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

An unexpected treat! I always enjoy your chats with Greg.

[ecosophia]

So do I. ;-)

Ecosophia

[migrantharvester]

It's fun to hear you talk about your process in making this move. What drew me to your writing was the ecosophic aspect of your work, but I have to thank you for the thoroughness with which you tackled the issues surrounding decline. I've certainly been led to question quite a few of my own preconceptions, and I have a sense of some areas where I need to be more thorough in my own thinking. But I'm really excited with your new explicit focus, it looks to be shaping up to be a fun ride!

Re: Ecosophia

[ecosophia]

You're welcome. I think it's definitely time to shift gears -- though no doubt I'll be talking from time to time about the accelerating curve of decline.

[yuccaglauca]

Thank you for announcing these podcasts! I used to spend a lot of time googling around to see if I missed any.

[ecosophia]

You're most welcome. I also have an ongoing list of my post-Archdruid Report podcasts on the main website at http://www.ecosophia.net/jmg-podcasts/ -- enough people asked for something of the sort that it finally sank in!

ecosophia reading?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG. Other than what you have written, Most of what I can find on Ecosophy (and next to nothing on ecosophia) out there is of the Naess et al
versions. I found you recommended Jim Nollman on the AODA site, so

Spiritual Ecology: A Guide to Reconnecting with Nature, is on the way.

Any other recommendations? Please?

Thanks,

Mac

Re: ecosophia reading?

[ecosophia]

I don't have anything in particular to recommend at this point, since I'm going to be doing as I usually do in blogging: that is, setting out from a given point with only the vaguest idea where exactly the adventure will end up! A good basic textbook of ecology might be helpful for the basic ideas I'll be working with, and a reread of William Catton's Overshoot will inevitably be helpful, but other than that, it's very much a matter of "climb aboard, matey, and we'll see where the wind takes us."

Re: ecosophia reading?

[(Anonymous)]

I have both of those, as a result of reading the ADR! Thanks, JMG. Looking forward to catching that wind.

Congrats and I had a chance to listen to your podcast today

[ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au]

Hi JMG (Cherokee here, although who knows how this will look),

I had a chance to listen to your talk with Greg today and really enjoyed it. Congrats on the new social media platforms and they appear very well thought out to me.

Now please forgive my irreverence but my next sentence may sound like it was written by a two year old, but seriously you started my next thought! Hehe! Anyway, after a frightening discovery in the supposedly rodent proof chicken enclosure this morning, I may well title my next blog post as: "Rodents, the conqueror of nature". ;-)! As I wrote, you started this!

Cheers

Chris

Re: Congrats and I had a chance to listen to your podcast today

[ecosophia]

Hah! Rodents probably have a better shot at it than we do. ;-)

your novel recommendation

[southsider1]

What was the author and title of that novel you mentioned -- the one about a future Britain inundated by rising seas?

Thanks!

Re: your novel recommendation

[ecosophia]

The author's Richard Cowper, and it's a trilogy, collectively titled The White Bird of Kinship; the three volumes are The Road to Corlay, A Dream of Kinship, and A Tapestry of Time. Cowper's writing is nothing short of brilliant, btw -- he deserves more attention than he's gotten from SF fans in general.

Awesome

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks so much for this interview. I think you are one of the great thinkers of our time on these issues... I have to admit, I will miss the Archdruid report. But really appreciate how you are evolving in your thinking and look forward to what else you have to say - your thinking has influnced my own. Good on ya'