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mounts with the inability of governments to deal with the emerging energy and environmental crisis, permaculture is attracting increased attention from those acting to secure their families' future and contribute to a better world. As a conceptual framework, a collection of practical strategies, and a self-help and grassroots movement, permaculture provides the hope and tools to allow humanity to weather the storms and even thrives in a world of progressively less and less available energy. The energy-descent concept was an explicit foundation for my articulation and explanation of permaculture concepts in Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability published in 202, just before the current rapid rise in oil and commodity prices began to stimulate wider interest in energy descent. This new book uses permaculture thinking of tell stories about the energy-descent future that can empower us to take adaptive and positive action
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ENERGETIC AND ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN HISTORY
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The broad processes of human history can be understood using an ecological framework that recognizes primary energy sources as the strongest factors determining the general structure of human economy, political and culture. The transition from a hunter-gatherer way of life to that of settled agriculture made possible the expansion of human numbers, denser settlement patterns, and surplus resources. Those surplus resources were the foundations of what we call civilization, including the development of more advanced technologies, cities, social class structures, standing armies, and written language. Archaeology records a series of civilizations that rose and fell as they depleted their bioregional resource base.
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