Ecological mountain to climb

Oliver Moore considers the Dark Mountain movement: a mixed group of ecologists who believe it’s time to prepare for the worse in climate change

WHAT if the combined effects of social, economic and environmental unravelling means the end of the world as we know it? Not the end of the world, but the end of how major aspects of our civilisation function?

What if we won’t, or can’t, solve current crises — what do we do? That’s the thinking behind Dark Mountain, a movement preparing for just such an eventuality. Writers, artists, crafts people, workers and scientists are trying to come up with new ways of responding to what they say is an age of collapse.