Ecologic collapse — that, the man-mangled yodels of plastic-choked dells, spastically septic-riven rivers, and corpse of mis- and over-managed soils, dammed waters, and air, which was our undamaged ecology, which sanely, sanctively fed, enclosed, and clothed us in comely peace, is collapsing — has its anthropogenic origins in grain and livestock domestication (13,000 years ago) and terminus in our domestication (10 years hence, or today), that’s demoted, meanly smote, and still demeans us in cosmopolitan cosmos of cubicling, workday-manacling urban infestations: that’s named, Civilization.

Readings

1. Summary.
   1. Articles.
      1. William Kötke. Common Sense and Survival. 2008-07-29.
      2. William Kötke. The Hero's Journey. 2007-04-04.
   2. Books.
      1. Charles Eisenstein. The Ascent of Humanity. 2007.
   3. Essays.
      1. Joe Bageant. The Ants of Gaia. 2007-06-03.
   4. Interviews.
      1. Derrick Jensen. Arthur Interview. 2006-07-23.
   5. Speeches.
      1. Terence McKenna. The Camden Centre Talk. 1992-06-15.
2. Causes.
   1. Articles.
      1. Dmitry Orlov. The Despotism of the Image. 2007.
      2. Julia Whitty. The Thirteenth Tipping Point. 2006-11.
      3. Richard Manning. The Oil We Eat. 2004-02.
   2. Books.
      1. Fredy Perlman. Against His-story, Against Leviathan! 1982.
   3. Book excerpts.
      1. Derrick Jensen. A Language Older than Words. 2000.
      2. Derrick Jensen. The Culture of Make Believe. 2002.
   4. Essays.
      1. Jason Godesky. The Age of Exuberance. 2006-10-09.
      2. Joe Bageant. The Sucker Bait Called Hope. 2008-11-20.
      3. Joe Bageant. Nine Billion Little Feet. 2008-02-08.
      4. Ran Prieur. Seven Lies About Civilization. 2003-11-24.
   5. Papers.
      1. Greg Wadley, Angus Martin. The Origins of Agriculture. 1993-06.
      2. Peter Salonius. Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago. 2008-10-20.
      3. William Robert Catton. The World's Most Polymorphic Species: Carrying Capacity Transgressed Two Ways. 1987-06.
   6. Speeches.
      1. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #6.
      2. James Lovelock. Climate Change on a Living Earth. 2007-10-27.
3. Consequences.
   1. Articles.
      1. David Quammen. Planet of Weeds. 1998-10.
      2. James Lovelock. 100,000 Years. 2006-01-16.
      3. Julia Whitty. Gone. 2007-05-25.
      4. Susan Casey. Plastic Ocean. 2007-05.
   2. Book excerpts.
      1. John Crowley. Engine Summer. 1979.
   3. Essays.
      1. Dave Pollard. Dominoes. 2008-08-13.
   4. Poems.
      1. Allen Ginsberg. Howl and Other Poems. 1956.
   5. Speeches.
      1. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #5.
4. Solutions.
   1. Articles.
      1. Bob Holmes. Imagine Earth without People. 2006-10-12.
      2. Wendell Berry. The Idea of a Local Economy. 2001.
   2. Books.
      1. Henry David Thoreau. Walden (or, Life in the Woods). 1854.
   3. Book excerpts.
      1. Aldous Huxley. Island. 1962.
      2. Derrick Jensen. Endgame. 2006.
      3. Octavia E. Butler. Earthseed. 1993, 1998.
      4. Terence McKenna. The Archaic Revival. 1992.
   4. Essays.
      1. Ran Prieur. How to Drop Out. 2008-10-17.
   5. Interviews.
      1. Bill Mollison. The Plowboy Interview. 1980-11-01.
      2. Bill Mollison. In Context Interview. 1991.
   6. Journals.
      1. Church of Euthanasia. Snuff It, Issue #1. 1995.
   7. Papers.
      1. Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. Overcoming Systemic Roadblocks to Sustainability: The Evolutionary Redesign of Worldviews, Institutions, and Technologies. 2009-05-08.
   8. Speeches.
      1. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #1.
      2. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #2.
      3. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #8.
      4. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #9.
      5. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #16.
      6. Church of Euthanasia. E-sermon #18.
      7. Terence McKenna. Alien Dreamtime (Space Time Continuum). 1993-02-26.

Memoirs

Culture Noir:
It ends when we end
   and that with a sigh.
We shouldn’t be long
   for that, now.