This website is about the journey from what western civilisation is right now to what, if it survives the eco-apocalypse, it will eventually have to become: an ecologically sustainable civilisation. Ecocivilisation a form of civilisation which has established a stable long-term balance with the ecosystem in which it is embedded and upon which it depends, and is therefore sustainable indefinitely. In the most general sense it is the final state or stage of the evolution of human social organisation. We cannot go back to the Stone Age, or to any previous stage in human socio-cultural or technological development, because we aren't going to forget what books are for. Assuming we avoid exitnction, it follows that we will have little choice but to continue trying to re-invent civilisation until such time as we get it right – even if it takes us many thousands of years. And “getting it right” has to mean “getting it right ecologically”. It does not matter what else we get right, if the ecology does not stack up then collapse will surely follow, sooner or later.
This raises two huge questions.
1: What could a real ecocivilisation, derived from Western civilisation, actually look like?
2: What is the least bad path from here to there?
These two questions lead to countless others, and this blog is intended to be an exploration of the answers.