Raphaël Stevens – författare

The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just to survive the collapse but to live it?In this book, the sequel to How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions – with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.

What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization.  Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment.In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives.  In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.

What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization.  Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment.In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives.  In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.

The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just to survive the collapse but to live it?In this book, the sequel to How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions – with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.

Hoy la utopía ha cambiado de bando: somos unos ilusos al creer que todo puede continuar como antes. El colapso es el horizonte de nuestra generación, el comienzo de nuestro futuro.   Muchas son las preguntas que surgen con solo mencionar la palabra colapso: ¿Qué sabemos del estado global de la Tierra? ¿Y del de nuestra civilización? ¿Es comparable un colapso de las cotizaciones de la bolsa con uno de la biodiversidad? ¿Pueden arrastrarnos la convergencia y la perpetuación de las distintas "crisis" hacia una vorágine irreversible? ¿Hasta dónde puede llegar todo esto? ¿En cuánto tiempo? ¿Es posible vivir un desmoronamiento "civilizado", de manera más o menos pacífica?   Pablo Servigne, ingeniero agrónomo y doctor en Biología, y Raphaël Stevens, investigador y especialista en transición ecológica, analizan todos los estudios científicos que han mostrado la posibilidad real de un colapso, y ofrecen una visión interdisciplinaria de un tema aún hoy tabú para muchos: la Colapsología. En este libro ponen palabras a nuestras intuiciones sobre las consecuencias de las múltiples crisis que estamos experimentando: crisis ecológica, energética, demográfica, financiera, de salud pública...   Sin embargo, para Servigne y Stevens el peor de los escenarios no tiene por qué llegar a hacerse realidad; ni se rinden, ni caen en el catastrofismo. Por el contrario, nos invitan a reaccionar, a actuar y dar a luz a una sociedad más sostenible, más amigable, más humana.   "Una lectura urgentísima. [...] Un libro que merece sercomprado, leído y apoyado por cualquier ecologista".Le Monde"Un libro impactante [...], una especie de manual del "dolor ecológico" y de cómo afrontarlo".Manuel Rivas, El País