Roger Hallam and the Four Fractures of Collapse

In a recent interview by Chris Hedges, XR founder Roger Hallam, recovering from a series of imprisonments for protest activities in increasingly repressive and struggling post-Brexit Britain, talks about what we can do, and what we are likely to do, as collapse deepens. We are already responding, largely subconsciously, to the horrifying reality that our civilization culture is living on borrowed time, and that there simply is not enough of any essentially resources to go around anymore. And it’s going to get much worse as ecological collapse weighs in on top of economic, resource, and the inevitable political collapse as the resultant anger and fear boils over into more endless wars, chaos and violence. This is not about ‘inequality’, he says; that’s just a symptom. We can’t ‘fix’ collapse through tax reform or ‘renewal’ of our democracy, or reestablishing standards of law and justice. We’re way past that point. If we don’t get together and bring about revolutionary change, he says,…