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I have a broad range of interests which is reflected in my reading. I generally read Sci-fi and Fantasy for relaxation, with some historical fiction.

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adrienne maree brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Andrea Ritchie: Practicing New Worlds (2023, AK Press)
Rebecca Campbell: Arboreality (2022)
Paolo Bacigalupi, Andrew Dana Hudson, Deji Bryce Olukotun, S.B. Divya, Joey Eschrich, Cark A Miller, Elizabeth Monoian, Robert Ferry, Alāna Wilson, Madeline Gilleran, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Angel L. Echevarria, Robert Ferry, Yíamar Rivera-Matos, Joshua Sperling, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, Chris Gearhart, Max Gabriele: Cities of Light (EBook)

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Ursula K. Le Guin: City of Illusions (1996, Vista)
Stephen R. Donaldson: Reave the Just (Paperback, 1999, Voyager)

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Peter Gelderloos: Anarchy Works (Paperback, 2010, Ardent Press)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Planet of Exile (1966, Ace)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Rocannon's world (Hardcover, 1979, Gollancz)

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reviewed The End of Capitalism by Ulrike Herrmann

Ulrike Herrmann: The End of Capitalism (Paperback, German language, 2025, Scribe Publications)

How do we manage to transition to a more sustainable world without the collapse of …

A Sobering read

This is a detailed book that starts with the huge benefits society has gained from the rise of capitalism while highlighting the obvious downsides. The author then moves on to explain that everything Capitalism has accomplished is based entirely on harnessing new and cheaper forms of energy, staring with wood, through charcoal, coal and oil. This pulse of energy that built capitalism is coming to an end with fossil fuels ultimately running out and how we are unable to afford to continue there use in the face of climate change. A comprehensive argument is made that renewable energy will not and cannot replace the cheap energy we are now reliant on and how capitalism cannot survive the impending drop in available energy due to it's need for growth. Unlike similar books, a small section at the end proposes a way forward to a sustainable future.

I found the book compelling …

finished reading World Without End by Christophe Blain

Christophe Blain, Jean-Marc Jancovici: World Without End (2023, Penguin Books, Limited)

A sobering read highlighting the predicament we find ourselves in. Every aspect of modernity is built upon cheap reliable energy, predominantly oil. Like it or not this is coming to an end. Even without efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, oil reserves will come to and end or at least become uneconomic (from an energy perspective) to extract.

The first half of the book gives an excellent explanation of the benefits of oil and how and why it directly lead to huge jumps in technology and globalisation. It then explains why there are (almost) no alternatives to fill the gap it will leave when we stop using it. It then explains in detail the affects on climate, and finally how we need to redesign society to account for a future without abundant cheap energy.

quoted World Without End by Christophe Blain

Christophe Blain, Jean-Marc Jancovici: World Without End (2023, Penguin Books, Limited)

“We often believe that when a means of transport enables us to travel faster, we’ll save time getting where we need to go. And yet on average, we spend the same amount of time per day in transit. We’ve simply increased the distance covered.”

— World Without End by , (Page 72)

Perfectly explains the folly of cars and fossil fueled vehicles. Any gain in speed or efficiency is lost by traveling further.