Course structure

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This will be continuously developed in the light of feedback and changing knowedge and circumstances. Hopefully sections or articles will be offered by individuals or groups who have particular expertises or experience. This will eventually become a series of linked pages outlining in detail the structure and content of the course.

The development of the Anthropsphere and the emergence of the Anthroposcene era

The major interlocking potential catastrophes:

Global climate change
Carbon fuel depletion (peak oil), energy crises and energey security
World population growth
Food and water depletion and security (peak ecological water)
Unsustainable economic growth, commodification, marketisation and financialisation (peak neoliberal growth)

The political,economic, cultural processes and practices that produce and reproduce the conditions for catastrophic futures

Critique of the 'post political'

Imagining post-carbon futures


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