Brave New Peace?

Working on the ideas for a second book (in the proposal stage) on superempowered individuals and their ability change things for the better. It picks up on the last section of BNW on rethinking security and runs with it.

Comments

[Michael Tanji]

Brave New Change? To take the focus away from just conflicts . . .

Oh, no, wait: Superheros

[Bob Morris]

Bravo.

I hope you can include something on climate change, as the prospect of mass migrations and political upheaval due to global warming is quite real.

Australia currently may have to stop water going to farmland so has to preserve drinking water. The US southwest is in a major drought.

What happens when major cities don't have enough water or there are food shortages?

Maybe the superempowered can genuinely work towards answers here, because governments tend to be asleep at the wheel, in denial, or getting hollowed out.

[JHyde]

I know I'd read it.

[Robert Paterson]

Hi John
Good news - the more I think of this idea of the resilient community and the role of the people who wake it up - the more it makes sense.

Now waking up is hard work - love to hear of others who are doing this

Part of what some in Public TV and Radio are trying to do
Rob

[Noah Shachtman]

Yes, please!

[bobw]

Resilient communities sounds like a good idea, but I dont know if they will survive the mass upheavals that will result if peak oil and global warming's effects arrive at once. As tens and hundreds of thousands of people from the overdeveloped and arid southwest start flowing north, imagine how secure your resilient communities in northern California or Oregon will feel.

There is no way to move by rational planning and choice from the present consumer society to a modest-consumption resilient one, without passing through a 30's type Depression on a much bigger scale. Lifespans will shorten, living conditions will be miserable for the majority. Read James Howard Kunstler's latest work for a vivid description of likely results.