Introduction.- Riot Epidemic: State Failure, or System Failure?.- The Matrix: How Fossil Fuel Interests Dominate Corporate Media Reporting on Energy and Climate Change.- Failed Forecasts: How the Media’s Pro-Fossil Fuel Bias Ruins Energy Journalism.- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, MENA.- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Europe.- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Asia.- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Africa.- How US, Britain and Europe are responding to the end of cheap oil: State-militarisation, fossil fuel consolidation.- Disruption from Below – Exponential Renewables.- Disruption from Below – Utility Death Spiral.- Disruption from Below – New Financial Models.- Disruption from Below – Decentralisation of Power.- Disruption from Below – the Open Source Revolution.- Disruption from Below – the Rising Culture.- Conclusions – Paradigm Shift.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is an award-winning investigative journalist,
bestselling author and noted international security scholar. He is
listed in the Evening Standard's 2014 and 2015 ‘Progress 1000’
selection of the most globally influential Londoners.
Ahmed is a columnist for VICE’s science and technology magazine,
Motherboard, and for the London-based digital news platform Middle
East Eye. He is a former environment blogger at The Guardian where
he reported on the geopolitics of interconnected environmental,
energy and economic crises via his Earth Insight blog. He has also
written and reported for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald,
The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz,
Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, Raw Story, Asia
Times, among many others.Ahmed has twice won the Project Censored
Award for his journalism, in 2014 for his story on the energy
geopolitics behind the Ukraine crisis, and in 2013 for his article
on food riots as a ‘new normal.’
Ahmed’s book, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How
to Save It (Pluto, 2010), was the first integrated peer-reviewed
study of the intersection of climate change, energy depletion, food
scarcity, economic instability, terrorism and state-militarisation.
In 2010, he won the Routledge-GCP&S Essay Prize for his seminal
paper presenting the social science framework for the book in the
journal Global Change, Peace and Security, “The International
Relations of Crisis and the Crisis of International Relations.”
Ahmed's previous books include The London Bombings: An Independent
Inquiry (Duckworth, 2006); The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation
and the Anatomy of Terrorism (Interlink, 2005); Behind the War on
Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (New
Society, 2003) and The War on Freedom: How & Why America was
Attacked, September 11, 2001 (Progressive, 2002). The latter is
archived in the ‘9/11 Commission Materials’ Special Collection at
the US National Archives in Washington DC – it was among 99 books
made available to each 9/11 Commissioner of the National Commission
on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to use during their
investigations. He also contributed to the Coroner’s Inquest into
the 7/7 London bombings, and has advised the Royal Military Academy
Sandhust, British Foreign Office and US State Department, among
other government agencies.
Nafeez's academic work revolves around the historical sociology and
political ecology of mass violence in the context of civilizational
systems, and focuses on bridging disciplinary divides across the
natural and social sciences. He has taught international politics,
contemporary history, empire and globalisation at the University of
Sussex’s School of Global Studies and Brunel University’s Politics
& History Unit. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the
Global Sustainability Institute of Anglia Ruskin University’s
Faculty of Science and Technology.
“If you're new to the notions of peak oil / EROEI / collapse of industrial civilization, and/or would like to try and enlighten a friend that might be receptive to these issues, I'd say that you can't go wrong by picking up a copy … of Failing States, Collapsing Systems.” (From Filmers to Farmers, fromfilmerstofarmers com, February, 2017)“Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence, a thought-provoking new book by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. … The book is only 94 pages (plus an extensive and valuable bibliography), but the author packs in a coherent theoretical framework as well as lucid case studies of ten countries and regions.” (Resilience, resilience.org, January, 2017)
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