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[Saurabh Cloudas]

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On Friday, we tried to get some of our money out of SVB before the US went online and risked everything crashing down. Thankfully, we managed to transfer 25% of our funds (following a nerve-wracking few hours waiting to see if the money appeared in our account). We were hearing of many others who weren't so lucky.

The media kicked in even before I managed to send the letter as other well-connected founders told journalists that it was coming. Mark Kleinman from Sky broke the story, having managed to get hold of a draft of the letter, and my phone began blowing up with calls from journalists.

By 3pm, it was the top story on the FT online, led by Global Tech Correspondent Tim Bradshaw . All the major news outlets were covering the story. It was incredible to have gone from starting to write the letter at 9am, to garnering so much support to it leading the news within six hours.

I was also invited to the Save UK Tech group, where Dom Hallas from Startup Coalition was doing a phenomenal job representing the tech community in government conversations and feeding back that they understood the severity of the risk and were working hard to find a solution.

It was the best news we could have hoped for. It was the best possible result for all involved: for the tech community, for the SVB UK employees, for the government, for the UK tax payer and for HSBC.

There was a big clamour to thank the government and the teams that had worked through two nights to achieve such a good resolution within 60 hours of SVB UK going into insolvency. What those teams achieved was incredible. I asked the group to approve a short thank you note on behalf of the founders and then sent it to Jeremy Hunt and the media who covered the story. It was great to see this was also picked up in the press.

Thank you Doug Monro , Cameron Frayling , Zoe Balmforth , Simone Maini , Irra Ariella Khi , David Benigson , Andrea Berchowitz , Hamish Grierson , Alexander Trewby , Paul Naha-Biswas , Kyle C Grant-Talbot , James Smith , Chris Priebe , Dr. Rayna Patel , Ashley Ramrachia , Eamon Jubbawy , Joy Joseph Abisaab , Michael Young , Tim Sadler , Steven Hunter , David Peto , Sultan Murad Saidov , Veronika Ostreyko , Sam Damoussi , Alex Macdonald , Nick Mason , Tom Powell , Kelly McCabe , Damon Mannion , James Sherwin-Smith , Andrew Thomas , Jeremy King , Nigel Whiteoak , Joe Healey , ?️ Anthony Eskinazi , Virraj Jatania , Justin Basini , Shachar Bialick , Satnam Surae, PhD , Billie Quinlan , Dan Silvertown , John Downie , James Mishreki , Tristan Fletcher , James Mishreki , Sebastian Fallert , Lucas Johnston , Nina Mohanty , Tom Gallard , Will Mason , Joel Freeman , Kim Nilsson , Philip Kelvin , Theo Margolius , Graham O'Regan , Toby Mather , Rich V. , Will Critchlow , Sohaib Ahmed , Benedikt von Thngen , Brett Shanley , Sergio Grce , ?James Blackham , Matt Lodge , henry lane fox , Maria Wlosinska , James Jameson , Maria Wlosinska , Alex Hudson , Martin Sweeney , Nikolaus Shr , Santi Ureta , Joe Root , Marek Zwiefka-Sibley , Tim Spratt , Sumanta Talukdar , Dan Murray-Serter ? , Amon Ghaiumy , Edward Griffith , Alice Pelton , Mathew Donfrancesco , Fred Destin , Jinesh Vohra , Callum Cooper-Brighting , Rachael Crook , Raphael Eder , ? Gabriel Isserlis , Jean de Fougerolles , Laurence John , Richard Heyns , Leo Anthias , Nii Cleland , Mandeep Singh , Valerio Magliulo , Alex Rose , Sam Browne , Will Pearce , Ulrik Stig Hansen , Tim Chong , Keiran Olivares Whitaker , Katerina Moumtzoglou , Mikhail Dubov , Hamzah Chaudhary , Philip Mundy , Luke G. , Guy Ward Thomas , Teemu Mattila , Tom Lawrence , Tom Bridges , David de Picciotto , James Neville , Robert Newry , Phelim Bradley , Neil Tanna , George Pallis , Jon Topper , Jamie Akhtar @ CyberSmart , Saurav Chopra , Ian Marsh , Alex Mifsud , Zara Ransley , Joe Parry , Robin Rhm , Ben Henley-Smith , Anshika Srivastava , Laksh Aithani , Max Jamilly , David 'DJ' Oragui , Jenna Brown , Shan Hanif , Fred Soneya , Kyran Schmidt , Patrick Ryan , Ronan David , Reece Chowdhry , Adam AMARA , Ann Marie Juliano , Aron Alexander , Mark Kotter , Evgeny Shadchnev PCC , Callum McKeefery , Jack Tang , Sagi Shorrer , Gil Dibner , Liam Houghton , Shardi Nahavandi , Abakar Saidov , David Peterson , Mitchell Fasanya , Harry Glucksmann Cheslaw , Victor Malachard , Jamie B. , Henrique Olifiers , Pierre Proner , Khyati Sundaram , Andrew White , Kasper Bossen-Rasmussen , Jake Casson , Piotr Pisarz , Greg Lawton , Indy Sangha , Jack O'Meara , Eduardo G. , Jevan Nagarajah , Bradley Sam , Florian Richter , Andrew Mole , Ilana Wisby , Andre de Haes , Chandini Jain , Benjamina Bollag , Sam Cash , Peet Denny , Simon M. , Charles Wedderburn , Jonathan Gill , Vayshnavee Kewada , Nikola Mrkšić , Alexander Argyros , Oliver Schofield , Jerome de Lafargue , Sam Cole , Dilanka Kalutota , Robbie Hughes , Jade Cohen , Gauthier Van Malderen , Andrew J Scott , Francisco Baptista , Matthew O'Riordan , David Nothacker , Sanjeev Jeyakumar , Hephzi Pemberton , Robert Walsh , Rahul Parekh , Kim Nilsson , Pippa Gawley , Alan Bourne , Alberto Rizzoli , Molly Hart , Will Leeming , Ross Harper , Chris Smith , Emre Baran , Jonny Plein , Todd Latham , Nick Omeyer , Sean Nolan , Hal Watts , Helen M. , Paul Kirby , Nader AlSalim , Max Buchan , Aniruddha Sharma , Juan A. , Youri Moskovic , Robert Van Den Bergh , Daniel Dickens , Charles Thiede , Julia Salasky , Nicolas Hourcard, CFA , Bjoern von Siemens , Elin Haf Davies , Erik Stadigh , Tommy Ricketts , Alexander Chow , Jonny Burch , Andrei Danescu , Jared Burgess , Victor Trokoudes , Anton Derlyatka , Christian Owens , Schoneck Shoaf , @Greg Law, Digby Vollrath , Carlo Gualandri , Michael Vanaselja , Jim Downing , Peter Lord , Nicholas Heller , Danuta Jeziorska , @James Johnston, @Michael Chen, Gabriela Hersham , Jim Lucchese , ?️? Christopher El Badaoui , Aidan Rushby , Flavia Popescu-Richardson , Natalia Panowicz (she/her) , Will Donnelly , Subrata Dev , Cesar Kuriyama , @Johan du Plessis, Aaron Awan , Marcel Gehrung, PhD , @Jiawei Li, Samir Desai CBE , Rory Codrington , @Daniel Eyre, Jon Horsfield , Dan Marcus , Carlos Serra , Ian Wheal , Johnny Bridges , Ramsey Faragher , Tayga Baltacioglu , Dominick Peasley , John Davies , Emily Cummin , Rezso Szabo , Mariano Kostelec , @Richard lock, Hussain Hilli , Carl Pei , Asha Haji , Zara Riahi , @Chris Bone, Arun Anand , Kelly Price , Martin Frost CBE , Nicholas Zylberglajt , Alex M. , Tunji Andrews , Raphael Scheps , Daniel Rooke , Alexandra Depledge, MBE , Gulsah Gulser , Sam Tuke , Alasdair Russell , James Buckley-Thorp , Manish Garg , Alix Brunet , Firoz Noordeen , Cat Jones , Aileen Ryan , Zak Doffman , Ben Caulfield , Ammar Akhtar , Asif Qasim , Leanne Kemp . , Lachlan Mason , Anya Doherty , Edward Brandler , Edmund Robins , Abhishek Sen , Luisa Alemany , Nick Lally , Markus Gilles , Mark Loney , Joe Martin , Matteo Negro , Alessio Pirastu , Stephen Chandler , Sharmadean Reid MBE , Jonathan Milner , Jeff Wellstead , @Keith Ryan, Charlie Casey , Pierre-Yves Paslier , Matt Cooper , Christian M. and Andre Brown .

When I was sent a review copy of this book in February 2020, I was very busy with our residential Permaculture Design Course (which includes subjects aligned with the broad subject matter of this book). At the same time, we were making plans, just in case the new epidemic in China did prove to be the big one (a severe global pandemic that ecologists and epidemiologists had been predicting for decades). As our preparations to restructure our business to operate during the pandemic (without government support) and consolidate our three semi-autonomous households at Melliodora, lots of stuff fell by the wayside, including reading this book. I did pass it to Brenna Quinlan, our resident permaculture illustrator and educator, but she thought it sounded too depressing a read for current conditions.

In How Everything Can Collapse, Servigne and Stevens strongly articulate the inevitability of some type of near-term collapse of what they call thermo-industrial civilization, while avoiding the hazards of apocalyptic millennialism. The balance between conveying critically important information and sunny exploration of the universal human instincts, behaviours and beliefs is one of the strengths and joys of this book.

While permaculture is only mentioned in passing, along with other hedges and adaptive responses to collapse, I found the review of the role and impact of the Transition and Degrowth movements insightful, especially for English readers wanting a somewhat more internationalist perspective.

However, in such an important book, the lack of an index is disappointing for those committed to paper rather than digital formats. (Even the apparently disconnected subject of publishing media formats is of course a subject on which collapsologists have thought and written.)

But to put all stories about the future in context, a system thinking overview is really useful. Whether you are just grappling with the need to think about the future for yourself and your family or are personally obsessed by dark scenarios for humanity and the earth, I highly recommend How Everything Can Collapse, even if the title (in English at least) might deter those who continue to relax in the soothing water of techno-optimism.

My aim in this essay is to focus on the critical importance of using all our physical, emotional and intellectual resources towards maintaining connections across what could be a widening gulf of frustration and distrust within our movement, reflecting society at large. I want to explore how permaculture ethics and design principles can help us empathetically bridge that gulf without needing to censor our truth or simply avoid the issues.

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