In 2015, author, public speaker and change specialist Bart Flos published his fifth book, Vooruitkijken voor gevorderden (‘Futurology for Fanatics’). In this book he paints a hopeful picture of the limitless possibilities of the human species Homo sapiens to shape its own future.
Since the publication of that book, things have quickly gotten out of hand with the environment, biodiversity and climate. It prompted Flos to author his sixth book and Magnus Opus: De mens als grens (‘Our Inner Limits’). Unfortunately, as a plea, it was much less hopeful, but it still contained solutions to turn the tide.
“After the publication of Our Inner Limits, I could not have imagined how quickly things would get só much worse. The year 2023 is the year that we passed the ‘elbow’ of the exponential curve. What we are left with now is chaos and unpredictability. I authored a thousand posts about it and I didn’t want them to get lost in the endless timelines of the social media,” Flos says.
This is one of the eleven addenda to Our Inner Limits, in which Flos’s posts are included in book form. It takes you on a head-on confrontational journey from ignorance via climate change to overconsumption and collapse. Together we will break the last ultimate taboo: daring to say that we waited too long, that it is too late now and that we will have to passively suffer the consequences of our destructive collective behavior as a human species.
Addendum V – The Beginning of The End: Ignorance
Ignorance is perhaps the most threatening trait of the human species. As soon as we claim that science is ‘just an opinion’ and scientists ‘don’t know everything either’, we detract from our potential. Along with short-sightedness and stupidity, ignorance is the true beginning of our collective end.
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Publication date 1 Februari 2025
Addendum VI – De Frontal Confrontation: Climate Change
Climate change, together with environmental pollution and biodiversity loss, is one of the three major symptoms of overconsumption, when a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its own living environment. Of these three symptoms, climate change hits us most directly in the face. The weather is all around us and no one can escape it.
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Addendum VII – The Big Problem: Overconsumption
Overshoot or overconsumption, when a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its own living environment, is an existential threat that is easily overlooked. We are so busy fighting the symptoms of overconsumption – environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change – that we forget to tackle the real problem at its root.
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Addendum VIII – The Final Taboo: Collapse
When it comes to “the state of the world,” we have no shortage of topics to discuss. Environmental pollution, destruction of biodiversity, climate change, crisis, conflict and war; we are fighting on all fronts. But talking about the collapse of the global infrastructure due to overconsumption is the last taboo. Because that concerns us all, everywhere on this planet.
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Addendum IX – The Next Step: Collapse Awareness
What does it mean to be ‘collapse aware’? How does it feel to be aware of our pending doom and not being able to do anything about it? Collapse awareness is the first towards step towards a more realistic attitude as to the fate of mankind. It will help us escape our state of denial and face the truth head on: we’re not going to make it in the long run.
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Addendum X – The Last Resort: Collapse Acceptance
Once we are collapse aware we can move on to the next step: accepting our fate as it is. One of the most difficult aspects of our existence is to give up our attempts to keep on changing the status quo in exactly the same way and expect a different result every time. Some call that the definition of insanity. Collapse acceptance is our last resort.
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Addendum XI – The Tough Choice: Collapse Resilience
Once we become aware of our pending doom, and have learned to accept it as a fact of life, we need to move just one step further: we need to embrace collapse resilience. We need to prepare for what’s coming without descending into a state of despair. It’s a tough choice for sure, but it’s the only choice we’ve got left.
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Publication date 1 Februari 2025
