Through the Looking Glass

[marian farrell]

ASPO, Cultivate and FEASTA present...

Through the Looking Glass: An Evening with Vinay Gupta

Monday 27th September 2010

19.30 - 22.00

€10 / €5 for members (ASPO, Cultivate, FEASTA)

The Greenhouse, St Andrew St, D2

01 674 5773

Vinay will also be
giving public lectures in Cork on Sept 26th and in Kilkenny on Sept
28th. Contact info at aspo-ireland dot org for more details

The recent visit of Stoneleigh (aka Nicole Foss) to Ireland disturbed anyone who heard her speak about the imminent collapse of our global financial system. However, while
delivering a compelling argument as to how we've gotten to this point
and the inevitability of collapse, in her talk she gave little
consideration to what will happen during or after such a collapse.
While an unpleasant scenario to consider, we have an obligation to
investigate it further. Does it mean the end of civilisation as we know
it? What steps will governments take to avoid such a catastrophe and
might they work, and at what cost?
Vinay will explore these questions and examine the structures which
underlie social, political, financial and supply-chain systems,
suggesting they may not be as vulnerable as some might fear. He will
discuss different kinds of fragile systems and society's exposure to
them, as well as mapping certain kinds of basic utilities and working on
how they might be stabilized or resurrected in the face of a systemic
collapse.

Vinay Gupta is a thinker on catastrophe and resilience, with a particular interest in responses to nuclear terrorism, genocide and various kinds of worst-case natural disaster. He is currently
working on a book project, thefuturewedeserve.com. A summary of his work can be found at hexayurt.com/plan.

Vinay's presentation will be followed by a Panel Q&A session chaired by John Gibbons [thinkorswim.ie] and joining Vinay on the panel will be Feasta's David Korowicz, author of the recent Tipping Point report, and Dougald Hine, a co-founder of the Dark Mountain project.