New to the Collapse Book Serialisation? Here's where you can get started

A Table of Contents where you can find the whole book in one spot. The first three chapters are free to everyone.

I am currently serializing my next book, chapter by chapter. It’s about how to live fully and beautifully in a collapsing world. You can learn about how and why I’m publishing my book this way here.

As I write each chapter, they will be indexed here.

We kick straight into the book with a deep and nourishing discussion about hope. A lengthy introduction-slash-prologue will come later. Note that some chapters might move about as we progress.

PART 1: WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT

In which we set up what the hell is going on….

Chapters 1 & 2: Hope and Relief

Hope and Relief

Chapter 3: Truth

Truth

Chapter 4: Collapse - Part 1

Holy shit, *this* is what civilisational collapse looks like...

Chapter 4: Collapse - Part 2

How does the climate crisis, rogue AI, fertility decline, fake news and Elon Musk all fit together?

Chapter 4: Collapse - Part 3

Civilisational collapse...as a Dr Suess illustration

Chapter 5: Spiritual

This is going to have to be spiritual

Chapter 6: Liminality

I moved to Paris because the chairs face outwards

Chapter 7: Death

Are we all going to die?

Chapter 8: Live

Want to know the secret to living...like, REALLY living?

Chapter 9: Metacrisis

It's a metacrisis. Which is to say, it’s beyond complex.

Chapter 9: Metacrisis - Part 2

We've been through crises before, what makes the metacrisis so...deadly?

Chapter 10: Moloch - Part 1

If life feels like a zero-sum race to the bottom, that's because it is

Chapter 10: Moloch - Part 2

Why can't we * just stop * the hyper-charged, techno-capitalist destruction of life on this planet by the dysfunctional tech-bro’ billionaires?

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PART 2: HOW DO WE LIVE NOW?

In which we land in what this all means for being a human living through this moment.

Chapter 11: Blame - Part 1

What if we forgave everybody and everything?

Chapter 11: Blame - Part 2

Most of our f*ckupery was simply "a good idea at the time"

Chapter 11: Blame - Part 3

This is not for everyone

Chapter 12: Uncertainty

Chapter 12 is a lesson in "faithfulness to life"

Chapter 13: Anti-chaos

Chaos is a tactic

Chapter 14: Ungrowth

Can we break from the Myth of Growth?

Chapter 15: Simplify

Collapse won't be like in the movies

Chapter 15: Simplify - Part 2

Should we be stockpiling canned corn? Moving to the hills?

Chapter 16: The Right Fight - Part 1

Should we still be climate activists?

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PART 3: ISLANDS OF SANITY

In which I borrow a phrase from Meg Wheatley and we begin to rise into our new way of being, being role models for a better way.

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PART 4: BECOMING MORE HUMAN

In which we realise we’re “onto something about being human”