GCR Inspiration
Crisis- Response-Transition Model frameworks became possible because of the decades of research & advocacy work by many people across the world. Here we would like to share a small list of the most inspirational thought leaders that have & continue to inspire & guide us in our efforts to articulate & navigate Global Crisis. We acknowledge that there is tremendous diversity & differences in their perspectives & approaches to humanity's predicament. By promoting them on our website we acknowledge broad agreements with several aspects of the ideas propounded by each of them, yet this does not entail our wholesale endorsement of all their viewpoints on all issues. We have created this page with charitable intention of providing easy access to our visitors with the wonderful works by these thought leaders. It took the founder of GCR over 2 years to stumble upon them via organic google search, we intend to reduce the contact time for our visitors & volunteers dramatically.
Note: If any of the thought leaders find any objection or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at sudhir@globalcrisisresponse.org
Ashish Kothari
Radical Ecological Democracy (RED), Swaraj
Pluriverse: A Post development Dictionary
Alternative Futures
Churning the Earth
Roger Halem
(UK)
Existential Rebellion (XR), Non-Violent mass Movement
Common Sense for the 21st Century
Donella Meadows (Late)
(USA)
Limits to growth , Environmental science, Systems science
Limits to growth (1972)
Limits to Growth-The 30 year Update, (2004)
Joanna Macy (USA)
environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology
Active Hope(2011)
William Catton Jr. (Late) USA
Ecology, Overshoot
Overshoot (1980)
Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse (2009)
Yuval Harari
Data Colonization & Disinformation risks
Sapiens_ A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus_ A Brief History of Tomorrow
David Korowicz
societal resilience, instability preparedness, and catastrophic shock planning
Trade Off: Financial System Supply-Chain Cross Contagion — A study in global systemic collapse
James Lovelock
(USA)
Originator of Gaia theory and inventor of the electron capture detector
Gaia A New Look at Life on Earth
The revenge of Gaia
A Rough Ride to the Future
Lewis Mumford
(USA)
Criticizes the modern trend of technology (Megatechnics)
The Myth of the Machine_ Technics and Human Development
Max Wilbert
(USA)
Dark Green Ecology- organizer, writer, and wilderness guide.
Deep Green Resistance
Paul Kingsnorth
(UK)
Ex-Environmental Activist, Collapse
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
The Wake
Intermission The Machine Stops
Divining the Machine
Jared Diamond
(USA)
Geographic Determinism, biogeography
Guns, Germs & Steel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
John Michael Greer (USA)
Collapse, Peak-oil, ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society.
The Wealth of Nature Economics as if Survival Mattered
The Ecotechnic Future Envisioning a Post-Peak World
Derek Jensen (USA)
Global warming, ecology, social justice
Deep Green Resistance(2011)
Bright Green Lies (2020)
William Rees
Ecological Footprint, Overshoot
Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase
James H Kunstsler (USA)
Energy Descent, Collapse
The Long Emergency
The geography to Nowhere
Too Much Magic
World Made By Hand novels
Vandana Shiva
Seed Conservation & Anti-GMO
The Violence of the Green Revolution
Oneness Vs 1%
David Holmgren
(AUS)
Permaculture
Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability(2002)
William Ophuls
Collapse
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity
Immoderate Greatness Why Civilizations Fail
Platos Revenge Politics in the Age of Ecology
Jason Hickle
(USA-UK)
Degrowth, economic anthropologist
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020)
Paul Elrich
(USA)
Population Pressure & Sixth Mass Extinction
The Population Bomb
The Annihilation of Nature
Fabian Scheidler
(Ger)
Industrial growth Society as the Megamachine
The End of the Megamachine(2020)
The Stuff We Are Made of
Rethinking Nature and Society (2021)
Ugo bardi
Complex Systems, Collapse, Renewable Energy
The Seneca Effect Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
Before The Collapse
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