In 2013 Samuel Alexander published his work of eco-fiction, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation. It is a story that gives account of a sufficiency-based community that emerged after the collapse of industrial civilisation. Interestingly – and rather ominously – the collapse-scenario Alexander presented as the catalyst for the breakdown of civilisation was based on oil supply being disrup...
This narrative presents a compelling thought experiment about the fragility of industrial civilization and the potential for alternative, sufficiency-based societies. The strongest version of this argument is that it highlights the inherent contradictions of a growth-based economic model, particularly its dependence on finite resources like oil and its ecological unsustainability. The piece effectively uses a fictional framework to explore real-world concerns about energy, economics, and societa...