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ANOTHER END OF THE WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Living the collapse (and not merely surviving it)
Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle
Translated by Geoffrey Samuel
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Originally published in French as Une autre fin du monde est possible: Vivre l’effondrement (et pas seulement y survivre). Préface de Dominique Bourg. Postface de Cyril Dion. © Editions du Seuil, 2018
This English edition © Polity Press, 2021
Excerpt from Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. Copyright © 1959, 1962, 1984, 1992, 2006 by Viktor E. Frankl. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston
Excerpt from Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig. Copyright © 1969 by Editions de Minuit. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Editions de Minuit
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Names: Servigne, Pablo, author. | Stevens, Raphaël, author. | Chapelle, Gauthier, author. | Samuel, Geoffrey, translator.
Title: Another end of the world is possible : living the collapse (and not merely surviving it) / Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Gauthier Chapelle ; translated by Geoffrey Samuel.
Other titles: Une autre fin du monde est possible. English
Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “How to face the environmental crisis with open eyes and a deeper awareness of what we can do about it”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020023225 (print) | LCCN 2020023226 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509544653 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509544660 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509544677 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Social change--Philosophy. | Crises (Philosophy) | Global environmental change. | Catastrophical, The.
Classification: LCC HM831 .S4813 2020 (print) | LCC HM831 (ebook) | DDC 303.4--dc23
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Dedication
To the survivalists, collapsonauts, and earth activists, to keep up courage
To Joanna Macy, Ursula Le Guin and Constance de Polignac
To Antoinette R., Laurie L.-M. and Géraldine R.
To Hugo, Antoine and David S. Buckel
To the growing mycelium …
There are things that one can only see properly with eyes that have wept.
Henri Lacordaire
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.
Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2012)
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly.
Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1992)
I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we have first changed ourselves.
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: the Diaries and Letters of EttyHillesum 1941–1943 (London: Persephone Books, 1999)
This is not so much a return to the earth as a return to ourselves. A spiritual experience. It is to heal, rediscover and reaffirm ourselves.
Tee
