Energy Descent Realism: Part 1

A better way to think about climate change, overshoot, and surviving the 21st Century?

Steve Genco
8 min readMay 6, 2024
A photo taken on a tour of Pigface Point, a “simpler way” demonstration project in Australia that shows how people could live in more sustainable communities without relying on fossil fuels. The phote depicts a sheep standing next to the open porch of a house, surrounded by dense plants and trees.
Pigface Point, a Simpler Way demonstration community in Australia, led by Ted Trainer, photo by Lisa Kelly on Flickr. Used with permission.

I’ve written here on Medium about the importance of mental models in understanding our current predicament of global warming, resource depletion, and ecological overshoot. Mental models are the lenses through which we see the world around us. They allow us to turn the

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Steve Genco

Steve is author of Intuitive Marketing (2019) & Neuromarketing for Dummies (2013). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.