collapse
last man standing
This month’s Museletter from Richard Heinberg at the Post Carbon Institute provides a valuable synopsis of where China and the US are at in avoiding an increasingly inevitable societal collapse,
Increasingly I am forced to conclude that the object of the game that world leaders are actually playing is not to avoid collapse; it’s simply [...]
what doesn’t work
If you’ve been reading my postings on this blog, you’ll quickly pick up that I think the United States is in full-scale decline. I would love to change my mind on this topic but every piece of evidence tends to point towards either a rapid collapse or a century long dissolution. Probably the actual fate [...]
podcasts from this week can help you understand the US debt problem
As the US debt ceiling was quickly raised to $12.4 billion to prevent Federal government shutdown, the only inevitable response will be an even larger increase early next year.
The United States balance sheet is looking like a weaker and weaker attempt at recovery. Some might even make the argument that the US is insolvent, [...]
cultural revolution is the solution
Paul Ehrlich is convinced that global civilization collapse is coming and that the only solution is a cultural revolution. Ehrlich made a name for himself by taking controversial stances on population and many people have interpreted that as eugenics. I don’t think we are overpopulated in principle but overpopulated in method.
Dr. Jason Bradford on how our agricultural system is primed for collapse
I just read over some troubling facts from Dr. Jason Bradford, an expert on food economics and the the problems with the US Food System. In light of the information below, I’m surprised we can keep the whole industrial ag. juggernaut moving forward. Throw in the variability of energy scarcity over the next few decades [...]
paragraph of the day, via John Michael Greer
The fact that a life lived in material comfort can be unsatisfying does not mean that the comfort is what makes it unsatisfying. Life can be every bit as barren of meaning to someone who is starving to death in a burned-out basement, or scratching out a bare living from a few acres of mud [...]
Kuntsler tells it like it is
Jim Kunstler, author of a ton of great books on New Urbanism and weekly guest on the Kunstlercast, posted a writeup on his blog today that ended with a fantastic summary about how things have to change to stave off utter societal collapse. Read the whole post! But to summarize, I wanted to post his [...]
