http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6599/
His "confessions" inspired a dialogue with Wen Stephenson of the Thoreau Farm Trust.
http://thoreaufarm.org/2012/04/hope-in-the-age-of-collapse/
includes a link to the video "Welcome to the Anthropocene"
Useful at a time when the climate scientists are saying it's too late to stop major climate change
Kingsnorth is one of the founders of the Dark Mountain Project,
http://dark-mountain.net/
This is a summary of the founders views
"These are precarious and unprecedented times. Our economies crumble, while beyond the chaos of markets, the ecological foundations of our way of living near collapse. Little that we have taken for granted is likely to come through this century intact.
We don’t believe that anyone – not politicians, not economists, not environmentalists, not writers – is really facing up to the scale of this. As a society, we are all still hooked on a vision of the future as an upgraded version of the present. Somehow, technology or political agreements or ethical shopping or mass protest are meant to save our civilisation from self-destruction.
Well, we don’t buy it. This project starts with our sense that civilisation as we have known it is coming to an end; brought down by a rapidly changing climate, a cancerous economic system and the ongoing mass destruction of the non-human world. But it is driven by our belief that this age of collapse – which is already beginning – could also offer a new start, if we are careful in our choices.
The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop."
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