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By: Do climate sceptics and anti-nukes matter? or: How I learned to stop worrying and love energy economics « BraveNewClimate

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:08:54 +0000

[...] supply and resource sustainability. This was exemplified by my post on the Olduvai Theory and Paul Gilding’s short essay on “The Great Disruption”. I got really annoyed by ‘climate change sceptics’ because I felt they were undermining [...]

By: Commuting to Work

Commuting to Work — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:00:49 +0000

[...] as the equivalent of approximately 1.2 Earth’s. Any attempt at a solution to the coming Gread Disruption is certainly not evident around me today (since the 2008 rebound off the Earth’s fuel and food [...]

By: Paul Gilding’s Great Disruption « micaros.net

Paul Gilding’s Great Disruption « micaros.net — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:20:31 +0000

[...] interesting perspective on where we’re heading, The Great Distuption… Filed under Climate Change, News and Politics, World Comment (RSS) [...]

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:58:44 +0000

I too heard you on ABC RN’s Background Briefing and for the first time I have recognised most of my approach to the world expressed eloquently by a public speaker. I have been concerned with world resources and environmental conservation since I was a teenager (I’m pushing 50 now) and have tried to live a conservative life, but I am not possessed of the guts and energy to live the sort of dynamic life you have. I must say it is refreshing to hear optimism expressed without denial of the horror of the changes we must go through. I do think there is a chance we as Homo Sapiens may become extinct in that change. After all the population of humans will be reduced dramatically, we are talking mass violent death here. But there is no point in dwelling on it. We have to try now to live our lives and convince others to live their lives in such a way that the other side of the change there are “intelligent” and “civilised” beings forming a society that is living sustainably, in environmental resource, and social terms.
The trouble is, that ask runs counter to the desires of our reptilian brain, of which it seems, fewer and fewer of us seem willing to temper by doing things that in all probability won’t benefit us personally, nor our family, tribe, or country. It takes a special kind of morality, a new morality that cares not what happens in the next persons bedroom or the exact point at witch you can be charged with murder for destroying a potential baby. For that reason I suspect you avoid that word: morality, but given the very loose connection between personal benefit in the future and the personal pain to be incurred now, I can’t think of a word that better sums it up.
I will continue to follow your writings and recommend them for others to consider.

By: Richard Mayne

Richard Mayne — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:09:29 +0000

I heard you on Background briefing and was inspired by your talk and inasmuch as what you say is frightening, I have been reading and researching this for long enough to know whats coming but I havent found too many who have tailed off discussions with optimism. Your insights were refreshing, and gives me added drive in designing the education platform my 2 babies will need in this new world.

Thanks

By: Climate Progress » Blog Archive » NPR has Paul Gilding on The Great Disruption, Romm on The Great Ponzi Scheme

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:00:47 +0000

[...] and advocate for issues of sustainability and climate change. He first wrote about the idea of a “Great Disruption” in [...]

By: The Grandest Ponzi Scheme and The Great Disruption « Bubbleconomics.com

The Grandest Ponzi Scheme and The Great Disruption « Bubbleconomics.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:15:49 +0000

[...] gloomy for you, Friedman also references environmental activist Paul Gilding’s article “The Great Disruption,” in which he maintains that in 2008 the world entered a period that he calls The Great [...]

By: The Great Disruption

The Great Disruption — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:59:35 +0000

[...] of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Freidman recently wrote about our dire times and what Paul Gilding calls “The Great Disruption” – “when both Mother Nature and Father Greed have [...]

By: Environment & Economy: We Can’t Do This Anymore | The Ruth Group

Environment & Economy: We Can’t Do This Anymore | The Ruth Group — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:08:18 +0000

[...] refers to Paul Gilding, and Australian climate activist. Check him out here. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Environment & Economy: We Can’t Do This Anymore”, url: [...]

By: Riverside Rambles » The Coming Crash?

Riverside Rambles » The Coming Crash? — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:25:31 +0000

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