“..‘I withdraw’: A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth..”

“..These are precarious and unprecedented times … Little that we have taken for granted is likely to come through this century intact.

We don’t believe that anyone — not politicians, not economists, not environmentalists, not writers — is really facing up to the scale of this …

- Somehow, technology or political agreements or ethical shopping or mass protest are meant to save our civilization from self-destruction.

Well, we don’t buy it.

This project starts with our sense that civilization as we have known it is coming to an end;-

- brought down by a rapidly changing climate – a cancerous economic system -

- and the ongoing mass destruction of the non-human world.

But it is driven by our belief that this age of collapse — which is already beginning —

- could also offer a new start -

- if we are careful in our choices…”

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