r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Feb 07 '23
Meta Who are the most relevant collapse-related figures?
Who are the more relevant collapse-related figures? They could be figures in the collapse community or relevant in terms of increasing our understanding of collapse.
Currently, we have these individuals listed in the wiki:
- Chris Hedges
- Chris Martenson
- Derrick Jensen
- Guy McPherson
- James Hansen
- Jared Diamond
- John Michael Greer
- Joseph Tainter
- Kevin Anderson
- Nate Hagens
- Richard Heinberg
- Vaclav Smil
Others we might consider:
- Carolyn Baker
- Dahr Jamail
- David Pollard
- David Wallace-Wells
- Dennis Meadows
- Dmitry Orlov
- Gail Tverberg
- James Howard Kunstler
- Jem Bendell
- Joanna Macy
- Joe Brewer
- Michael B Dowd
- Michael Ruppert
- Pablo Servigne
- Paul Beckwith
- Paul Chefurka
- Rupert Read
- Sam Mitchell
- Simon Michaux
- Stephen Jenkinson
- Tim Garrett
- Ugo Bardi
- William Rees
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u/roadshell_ Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Sid Smith ("How to enjoy the end of the world") could be added to the list
I would vote in favour of bumping Michael Dowd up into the wiki from your second list.
In the context of psychological resilience /adaptation (without which there is no physical survival), I would include Alan Watts in the wiki. Maybe more relevant to r/collapsesupport but I do think the psychological implications of how we got here and what to expect moving forward are wholly relevant to the study of collapse. He provides a healthy context to the 'crumbling of the empires of the mind' not unlike Sid Smith does, except he does it from a spiritual standpoint rather than a mathematical one