The Crash Course
The Crash Course is a first-rate primer and thought-provoking playbook for managing increasingly unexpected events, crises, and revolutions around the world. In this book, veteran executive and strategist Chris Martenson delivers an incisive and eye-opening exploration that helps readers understand the interconnectedness of various crises that matters most. From energy shortages to climate instability, financial crises, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, war, and crop failures, you’ll discover the common factor that is driving them all and how to adapt to volatile new realities and safeguard your own personal wealth, health, and community. The Crash Course offers a step-by-step guide to building up individual and community resilience and self-reliance, in order to better weather the tough times ahead.
INSIDE THE BOOK
A workable framework for understanding the “how” and “why” of dramatic societal, environmental, and economic transformation
A rich set of solutions, complete with examples, you can use to draw inspiration and motivation to act in your own life
An expansive amount of new material, fully updated since the last edition
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
”If you want to survive the next ten years, I highly recommend you study my friend Chris Martenson’s The Crash Course, and thrive while the global economy crashes.”
―Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Chris Martenson’s The Crash Course lifts away the mystification about our money, and the system it fuels, and makes absolutely clear why our society is wobbling into a dark age.“
―Jim Kunstler, prolific author and blogger
“Fortunately, Dr. Chris Martenson has a gift for making complex subjects easy to understand. The Crash Course is an absolute must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our planet.”
―Erik Townsend, former software entrepreneur and hedge fund manager
“The Crash Course will help you recognize how dangerous our future is likely to be and will help you prepare for it. It is a job well done.“
―Jeremy Grantham, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Strategist, GMO
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Martenson is an accomplished economic researcher, scientist, and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion.
His insights are highly in demand by academic, civic, and private organizations around the world, including the United Nations, the UK House of Commons, and U.S. State Legislatures.
Before becoming an independent economist, he was a Vice President at a Fortune 300 company and spent more than 10 years in corporate finance and strategic consulting.