*** Author’s Note

** Forward!

** 1. No (Global) Future

*** Religious myths: progress, global capitalism, global revolution, global collapse

*** I love us, there’s so much we can do and be, but there are limits

*** From anti-globalisation to climate change

** 2. It’s Later Than We Thought

*** Observed climate change is faster than expected

*** Ghost acres feed population overshoots

*** Climate change brings possibilities as well as closures

** 3. Desert Storms

*** The military looks to the future

*** Hot wars and failed states

*** Peacekeepers in the graveyard of the living

*** From (food) Riots to Insurrection

** 4. African Roads to Anarchy

*** Anarchic elements in everyday (peasant) life

*** Peoples without governments

*** Commons resurgent as global trade retracts

*** Outwitting the state

** 5. Civilisation Retreats, Wildness Persists

*** Empires spread deserts which they cannot survive

*** Nomadic freedoms and the collapse of agriculture

*** Sandgrouse and creosote

** 6. Terror-Nullius Returns

*** Civilisation expands as the cold deserts thaw

*** Ecocide and genocide in the ‘empty’ lands.

*** Lives of liberty/slavery on the new frontiers

** 7. Convergence and the New Urban Majorities

*** Life expectancy and expectations of ‘modern life’

*** Divergent worlds

*** Survival in the slums

*** Old gods and new heavens

*** Vagabond plants in urban ecosystems

** 8. Conservation Amidst Change

*** Apocalypses now

*** “Conservation is our government”

*** Damage control

*** Nature bats last

** 9. Anarchists Behind the Walls

*** Social war in temperate climates

*** Surveillance states & security cultures

*** Resist much, obey little

*** Love, health and insurrection

** 10. Desert