Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
►http://permaculturenews.org/2014/01/16/crash-demand-welcome-brown-tech-future
My argument is essentially that radical, but achievable, behaviour change from dependent consumers to responsible self reliant producers (by some relatively small minority of the global middle class), has a chance of stopping the juggernaut of consumer capitalism from driving the world over the climate change cliff.
[...] this could happen by reducing consumption and capital enough to trigger a crash of the fragile global financial system. This provocative idea is intended to increase understanding while taking the risk that the argument could turn people away from permaculture as positive environmentalism, and brand me a lunatic, if not a terrorist.