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For some reason, the link in the subtitle to Greer's article didn't come up. So far as I know, apart from some German company, Greer coined the term in his article, Towards an Ecotechnic Society. I strongly recommend the article, it's most interesting. Overall he's a bit more pessimistic about the prospects of our wasteful industrial societies than I am, but still he's worth having a look at.
I was thinking about this today. I'm torn between what I think is likely to happen - we'll collapse into mixed-industrial societies, lots of little Indias with wasteful hearts and manual outlands, and what I think could happen - the ecotechnic society.
I think the best way to handle it will be to deal with a look at an ecotechnic society as just ecotechnic, rather than an ecotopia. Aim for plausible but optimistic.
I fear we'll just zap off into crisis, though, after several years of fuel affordability in that danger area of 1,500-10,000lt each.
OK - the link is fixed now - thanks for telling me.
I've never really studied Greer to be honest (even though the ArchDruid moniker is pretty cool), however I think his vision of the ecotechnic society broadly equates to what I call "our clean energy future", which is basically a post peak scenario based on the Viridian stuff I'm so fond of.