Sounds like a powerful trifecta of books. Dark Age Ahead sounds really intriguing, I’ll check it out. Civilization is a hungry machine that requires constant growth and I’m worried we won’t make it through the current technological plateau, but as you say optimism is certainly a better tool to get us there than pessimistically believing we can’t. I’ve been enjoying reading your posts.
The introduction is great. Jacobs certainly has her beat—emphasis on the destruction of civil society by highways and [bad] centralized city planning—but there's a lot to consider. It's a short book, some chapters are more interesting than others. Always fun to see how people have been ringing the warning bell for decades...
Sounds like a powerful trifecta of books. Dark Age Ahead sounds really intriguing, I’ll check it out. Civilization is a hungry machine that requires constant growth and I’m worried we won’t make it through the current technological plateau, but as you say optimism is certainly a better tool to get us there than pessimistically believing we can’t. I’ve been enjoying reading your posts.
The introduction is great. Jacobs certainly has her beat—emphasis on the destruction of civil society by highways and [bad] centralized city planning—but there's a lot to consider. It's a short book, some chapters are more interesting than others. Always fun to see how people have been ringing the warning bell for decades...
Thanks, Michael!