[lbo-talk] Fwd: swecw-list> The Breakdown of Global Capitalism: 2000-2030

Nicholas Roberts nicholas at themediasociety.org
Mon May 21 20:52:11 PDT 2012


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maybe another resource of interest... J http://www.corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Breakdown_Capitalism%20FINAL.pdf The Breakdown of Global Capitalism: 2000-2030 Multidimensional crisis, systemic chaos, ecological ruin and a war for resources Preparing for the beginning of the collapse of industrial civilisation THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF FOSSIL FUEL: A TOTAL HISTORICAL RUPTURE

* Contents * Foreword to English Edition, 15 * I. The beginning of the end of fossil fuel: a total historical rupture, 17 * Introduction, 19 An exercise in political fiction with a strong dose of reality, 22 The current crisis in global capitalism began around 2000, 25 Peak Oil and the consequences of the new era of declining energy, 28 Physical inability to close ‘the jaws of the crocodile’ - energy supply and demand, 33 Technological impossibility of ‘broadening’ the ecological planetary frontiers, 36 Energy crisis, climate change and ecological collapse – a deadly triangle, 38 Breakdown of social reproduction and the crisis of care – the great forgotten, 41 Between two slogans: ‘Save the Planet’ of the new Green Capitalism and ‘Business as Usual’, 43 Systemic crisis, war for resources and a major demographic shift, 48 Thirty lost years and a ‘Full World’, with reduced options for possible futures, 50 Financial–corporate collapse, rupture of globalisation, and geopolitical breakdown, 54 Towards new regional state capitalisms, fighting among themselves? , 59 New geopolitical order, war for resources, systemic chaos and the breakdown of states, 64 Beginning of the long decline of industrial civilisation – dangers and potentials, 69 The ‘gods’ of modernity in crisis, but not yet terminal, 74 The new myths of post-modernity, supported by the Society of Image, 76 Will the global village and cyberspace survive the breakdown of global capitalism?, 79 The end of the expansion of the ‘I’ in new multicultural mass societies, 83 2010-2030: From the generation of ‘68’ to the ‘most prepared generation in history’, 85 Walking towards 2030 without a road map, but looking through the rear-view mirror, 89 Catastrophe, crisis of the dominant discourse and an opportunity for transformation, 92 An urgent need to change and broaden our socio-political intervention strategies, 97 A conflictive and complex relationship with the State and the Metropolis, 103 War and patriarchy - problems that must be resolved to allow us to live as human beings , 107 Bibliography, 111 Appendix, 117

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