Figures Many individuals have made significant contributions towards furthering our understanding of collapse. This is a collection of the most relevant and often discussed figures in the community. Related Posts Who are the most relevant collapse-related figures? Filter CategoriesFilter - All Chris Hedges Figures/Researcher Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspond... > Read More Chris Martenson Figures/Researcher Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com with Adam Taggart. As one of the early bloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with ... > Read More Derrick Jensen Figures/Researcher Jensen is an author and radical environmentalist. He has published several books, including The Culture of Make Believe (2002) and Endgame (2006), many of which critique civilization as a social system, explore its inherent values, hidden premises, and modern links to supremacism, oppression, and ge... > Read More James Hansen Figures Hansen is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years he has become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of clim... > Read More Jared Diamond Figures/Researcher Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of his notable books are The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (1991), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), and The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societie... > Read More John Michael Greer Figures Greer is a neo-pagan whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and future of industrial society. Greer blogged for many years at the now retired “Archdruid Report” and has authored more than fifty books on esoteric traditions, nature spirituality, and the deindustrial future ... > Read More Joseph Tainter Figures/Researcher Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who currently works as a Professor of Sustainability in the Department of Environment and Society College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. While in New Mexico he worked as an Archeologist at the USDA Forest Service. He has published several wo... > Read More Kevin Anderson Figures/Researcher Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester. He was previously director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organisation, where he held a joint post with the University of East Anglia. He is an active researcher with recent ... > Read More Nate Hagens Figures/Researcher Hagens is a well-known speaker on global issues and teaches a honors seminar at the University of Minnesota called ‘Reality 101 – A Survey of the Human Predicament’. He is on the boards of the Post Carbon Institute, Bottleneck Foundation, Institute for Integrated Economic Research, and Institute ... > Read More Richard Heinberg Figures/Researcher Heinberg has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on the urgency and challenges of transitioning society away from fossil fuels. Heinberg has authored scores of essays and articles and is the author of thirteen books, i... > Read More Vaclav Smil Figures/Researcher Smil has spent his career exploring the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment and public policy and is widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers of our time. He has published forty books and over 500 pa... > Read More
Filter CategoriesFilter - All Chris Hedges Figures/Researcher Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspond... > Read More Chris Martenson Figures/Researcher Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com with Adam Taggart. As one of the early bloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with ... > Read More Derrick Jensen Figures/Researcher Jensen is an author and radical environmentalist. He has published several books, including The Culture of Make Believe (2002) and Endgame (2006), many of which critique civilization as a social system, explore its inherent values, hidden premises, and modern links to supremacism, oppression, and ge... > Read More James Hansen Figures Hansen is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years he has become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of clim... > Read More Jared Diamond Figures/Researcher Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of his notable books are The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (1991), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), and The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societie... > Read More John Michael Greer Figures Greer is a neo-pagan whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and future of industrial society. Greer blogged for many years at the now retired “Archdruid Report” and has authored more than fifty books on esoteric traditions, nature spirituality, and the deindustrial future ... > Read More Joseph Tainter Figures/Researcher Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who currently works as a Professor of Sustainability in the Department of Environment and Society College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. While in New Mexico he worked as an Archeologist at the USDA Forest Service. He has published several wo... > Read More Kevin Anderson Figures/Researcher Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester. He was previously director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organisation, where he held a joint post with the University of East Anglia. He is an active researcher with recent ... > Read More Nate Hagens Figures/Researcher Hagens is a well-known speaker on global issues and teaches a honors seminar at the University of Minnesota called ‘Reality 101 – A Survey of the Human Predicament’. He is on the boards of the Post Carbon Institute, Bottleneck Foundation, Institute for Integrated Economic Research, and Institute ... > Read More Richard Heinberg Figures/Researcher Heinberg has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on the urgency and challenges of transitioning society away from fossil fuels. Heinberg has authored scores of essays and articles and is the author of thirteen books, i... > Read More Vaclav Smil Figures/Researcher Smil has spent his career exploring the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment and public policy and is widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers of our time. He has published forty books and over 500 pa... > Read More
