Late last year, Dr. Jeremy Leggett — solar energy entrepreneur, former oilman and government advisor — gave an eye-opening talk where he for the first time laid out his vision for two possible futures facing human civilization. Speaking at an event hosted by Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, he told a gripped audience that the world had approached a major convergence point in which our choices would rapidly close off either one of these possible futures. One scenario heralds the promise of a successful transition to a new, more evolved kind of civilization. Another scenario warns of a future plunged increasingly into scarcity, despotic chaos and conflict. The ascent of civilization Leggett’s positive scenario […]