Foresight: Volume 16 Issue 6
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The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policyTable of contents - Special Issue: Descent Pathways
Guest Editors: Joshua Floyd, Richard A. Slaughter
Descent pathways
Joshua Floyd, Richard A. SlaughterThe purpose of this special issue is first to highlight the need for wider understanding of the “civilisational challenge” facing humanity, as it encounters and then exceeds…
“New beginnings” within a new normal for the four futures
Jim DatorThis paper aims to offer real and explicit reasons for viewing the futures of humanity and Earth as positive, fulfilling and meaningful, if humans view it as such and act to make…
Future Earth: declining energy use and economic output
Patrick Moriarty, Damon HonneryThe purpose of this paper is to show that the observed strong link between global economic output and primary energy use will continue in future; and attempts to replace fossil…
The denial of limits and interior aspects of descent
Richard A. SlaughterThe purposes of this paper are as follows. Part one examines the role of denialism in the context of proposals advanced through the much-abused Limits to Growth (LtG) project…
Voluntary simplification as an alternative to collapse
Samuel AlexanderThis paper aims to re-examine Tainter’s dismissal of the voluntary simplification strategy. Joseph Tainter argues that “sustainability” is about problem-solving and that…
Conjuring clean energy: exposing green assumptions in media and academia
Ozzie ZehnerThis research presents uncomfortable questions about the viability of alternative energy technologies, which arise during economic contraction and degrowth but are scarcely…
Sense-making and acting for descent futures: human and cultural pathways
Joshua FloydThis paper aims to make the case for continued opportunity for high levels of human well-being under descent conditions characterised by declining economic throughput and…
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- Prof Ozcan Saritas