For The Long Emergency book group: enter your reading homework for the first three questions here (and enter the last response on your topic page).
| 9/15 | 9/22 | 9/29 | 10/6 | 10/13 |
| Ch 1 & 2 (p. 60) | Ch 4 (p. 100 – 146 Note: Ch 3 is optional) | Ch 5 (p. 184) | Ch 6 (p. 234) | Ch 7 (p. 307 Note: Epilogue is optional) |
- Explain how one idea in the reading relates to other topics already covered in class or something you learned elsewhere (another class or life experience).
- List what you think are the three to five most important points made in the reading.
- Write a question to provoke discussion among others who read the same passage.
February 20, 2009 at 6:03 pm
While I still feel this is an excellent and important book, I’ve removed this selection as an option for Spring 2009 to make room for a more recent book. I will leave the comments here so people who are interested in the book can learn more about it.
October 13, 2008 at 5:27 pm
This book was pretty intense and relates to my often deep feelings of fear and hopelessness. I’m scared of what the future holds, but i’m ready to take on the challenges. I feel like we need to suffer and learn to work together. It’s crazy to that so much of what we have built and lived our lives for will be no more. We wont have suburbia or Mcdonals’s or any cheap crap from China. What will we do with ourselves? I’m scared that some of his predictions may come true like deserted towns and cities, military strife, intended epidemics to wipe out populations, serious racial conflict… Will we pull through it? Im overwhelmed
October 13, 2008 at 10:12 am
Sorry about the repeative blogs. I,m not sure what I did!? but I,ll finish up now. I am changing my career not to make more money, but to make a difference to the world and influence other to take action as well. “live simply so others my simply live”.
October 13, 2008 at 10:07 am
My last blog on this book! I hate this book and can’t wait to give it back to the bookstore, so that it can give some other unsuspecting student anxeity attacks. Each time I picked it up to read it I felt a fight or flight sysptoms.
I kept waiting for the author to give us something positive to feel hopeful about. Instead each chapter seem be a deeper reenforcement than the last that we are big trouble without offering any ideas about changing the currrent path we are headed on.
He is also pesiamestic about the future of his own political party. I hope that the author is way off with his projections of the future. I,m sure to some degree he is right, but I think he is underestimating the will of the human spirt. Look how countries are working together to avoid finanical crisis. I believe that as people begining to become aware of the looming crisis, as it seems they are slowly becoming aware of, there will be a huge shift in peoples priorities. My wife and I begun to make huge change in our lifestyles. And are constantly learning about more and more ways to reduce our impact on the planet. I have decided to make changes in my career that are not based how much money I can make, bu