Through the Looking Glass: An Evening with Vinay Gupta ~ Monday 27th September

ASPO, Cultivate and FEASTA will present An Evening with Vinay Gupta in The Greenhouse, St Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2 on Monday 27th September at 7.30pm.

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 got 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 stabilised 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. 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.

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.