Professionally, I've moved in ten years from building windfarms and macroscale green infrastructure, through corporate CSR change amd sustainability to diconnecting, deteching and resilience training. I've advised Prime Ministers, Executive leaders, State and Municipalities - most get it but nearly all lack the moral, rational thinking and courage required to change.

I look to the military think tanks, academia, big oil like BP and Japanese companies for leadership on scenario planning and strategic foresight (while avoiding survivalist militias and ghetto thinking!).

Personal change and enhancement(spiritual,physical mental,emotional)coupled with networked support groups provides some buffer. We also have to evangelise change across all society in a way that is positive. We still need an element of economic resilience though!

We should utilize hemp fiber for fuel, building materials, clothing, paper, health, textiles and food to alleviate some of our problems. We know humans have used hemp products as far back as 8000BC. People have known for millenia that the benefits of hemp are numerous and far-reaching. North America has vast areas of land where hemp will grow abundantly. Simultaneously we should stop converting food crops into biofuel since hemp will provide an alternate source of fuel saving our crops for eating. Cars should then be produced that run on hemp-derived fuel, and made with hemp-derived products, then we can stop being as dependent on foreign oil. Many new industries based on hemp could create many thousands of jobs around the country. Millions of acres of hemp will absorb CO2 and release O2 making it a cleaner cycle of production and consumption. The applications for hemp in textile industries are vast, as well. Hemp was banned in America in 1937, then again in 1955 after it was produced to help win WWII. We need it yet again to help win this current struggle.

I feel kind of privellaged to be a part of such an interesting time for the world. It would be kind of cool to be the last humans to walk the earth, if you think about it, it would be something a little different - the planets last generation.

Over consumption - I blame it on professional sports...

If you look closely at the post 2008, downward plunge part of the graph, you will notice that the line occasionally decreases along the x-axis. That would seem to indicate that the "Growth" is able to go BACK IN TIME! Now THAT is cool! How does that work, exactly? During humanity's downward spiral to Survivor Island do we somehow manage to build time machines? And then do we put "Growth" in it to send back to ourselves a few months ago? Or did you just draw it when you were drunk?

I'd been debating deleting adbusters from my rss feed, and I think you just made up my mind.

that's what this site is about, stirring emotions out of readers by forcing a different perspective (not necessarily the right perspective) but going through that process is what I enjoy... if you want tips on being more sustainable go worldchanging or treehugger go to www.sustainableday.com

this is why left wing idea's are not taken seriously in the mainstream, and it angers me that there isnt more quality control on some of the writters in this mag... the cockiness and ignorence is sickening... what, u make up a graph with no reserch to back it up then have the nerve to refere to that graph as the background for your debate... the writter sounds like a born again christian who keeps refering to the bible for evidance of christ...

everyone knows everything already just wiki it! uhh i know all

This magazine is a joke. I used to think it had some insightful commentary on modern culture, but its starting to sound more like the rants of an ill educated sophomore studying philosophy. This essay provides no evidence to support its argument. We are just expected to accept that our society is no longer sustainable, because the author says so. And we are expected to take accept as evidence a back-of-the-envelope diagram of what will happen next.

I can tell that a lot of work and thought went into that diagram, let examine what it tells us. The Y-axis is labeled growth (not level of development), and from this we infer that growth increases as time (the x-axis) goes on. The author describes a nation as developed or developing based on its growth; that is, a developing nation is growing slower. This is completely false, as evidenced by the double-digit growth of China and India in recent years, while the developed would has been happy with 3%. And when this crash occurs, notice that growth is still positive; we are to illogically infer that since we reached earth's capacity, we will have to grow slower. It's too bad the author didn't spend more time thinking about what he was drawing, rather than just focusing on how he could draw a drop off.

The author would also have us believe that we have exceeded earth's carrying capacity, but gives us no evidence of what earth's carrying capacity is; we can infer from the diagram that it was sometime in the 1980s. But these Malthusian arguments have never held, because they fail to consider that people adapt. Yes, if we were all hunter-gatherers 6 billion people would not fit. But we have made tremendous strides in the ability to feed the world, and will continue to.

I've got an open mind, but I have little tolerance for those who make wide sweeping criticisms without backing up (or thinking through) their arguments.

Also tell us the truth about the neo cortex and the ingestion by early homo sapiens of psychedelic mushrooms containing psilocybin. People have the right to know of their true natures.

Why does adbusters conspire to keep the nature of esoteric anatomy away from alternative mindsets? I thought it was the journal of the mental environment, tell us about the nature of DMT and near death out of body visionary experiences, why are the mechanics of such experiences not discussed.

Adbusters conceals the truth about DMT for fear of being labeled something other than anarcho-shiek, oh know people will think we are hippy new agers when really we are dreary end agers with bleak portraits of the future in our minds eyes.

DMT TRUTHOUT NOW

How could anyone who does not belong to the Illuminati say that HUMANS are the reason for the global economic meltdown? That is called "death worship", mental imagery of bodies stacked in heaps from SARS, Anthrax, Nuclear Weapons, unrestricted warfare and starvation come to mind. The individual that claims "humans are the problem" is forgetting that they are not protected from sarin gas or the effects of starvation and malnutrition which could be applied to "fix the problem".

We are talking about PEOPLE, not little bugs or horny rabbits, but human beings. De-population belongs under the category of extreme and radical evil, even if your intentions are to "balance out the planet", it still isnt a good enough reason to murder. Balancing out the planet could include shooting yourself in the face, so why dont you start there?

Why doesnt every family grow a garden? Why cant every home be self-sufficient? Why shouldnt we abandon obsessive dictatorial concepts of control over humankind and abandon threats and violence towards the poor with whom we all identify?

My solution involves the banks, which sell money to our countries, they must be disassembled. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy must merge so that the maximum amount of income anyone can collect will be $1,000,000.00, any spill-over profit must be apportioned until everyone is earning that capitol, then that max earning can be raised. The profit incentive must be erased, not people.

this is all bullshit,the earth is sustainable,its the people which are the problem

Sustainability and resilience are the same thing at the level of continued survival, anything else and one is just staying the inevitable for the short term. This article is mostly empty and of a daft intellectual sort notably disconnected from any functional nuances...

This sense of urgency is fear its a natural response to what happening here, but it would be better if adbusters took the iniative to provide a neo-spiritual framework or at least some articles referencing the works of people who have thought in these regards; as opposed to delivering the same fearmongering we get in mainstream media.

Adbusters must use its 96% recyclable product and publish usefull information ie. how to grow ones own foods in urban settings...I could go on but really what needs to happen is adbusters has to address the functional aspects of how we are going to survive and not just give intellectual critique to a non-relevant media...Im thinking something along the lines of the "We're back" issue from 04.

Only inject some fucking spirit into what you do or it will only be the shallow reflection of the mass apathy and nihilism you so claim to oppose. People need to know about the true nature of our species and its past, about the symbiotic nature of our minds and the plants and fungis that produced the alkaloids allowing our spokesmonkey state of being to arise in the first place.

Our brains interact with the geomagnetic field of the earth via the bioelectromagnetic substance magnetite inside of the pineal gland in the center of our brains. We use it to regulate sleep/wake schedule and to generate dream potentialities.

The esoteric energy matrixes of all being coalescing in a moment of pure bliss awareness. These are the states given to us via our relation to the earth and its many manifest living forms, its is our duty as humans to know this connection at its deepest of levels and further its inception into our day to day modes of awareness such that it permeate the emptiness and fills the void that false material philosophies have created.

So if we don't here from the radical spiritualists in your magazine your not really relevant anymore, this isn't 2002 everyone is aware of what is occuring people choose ignorance and apathy or they come out of delusion and undertake the process of self-humanization.

So in closing, write a fucking article about DMT and how things are outside the cycle of fear.