Posted in collapse on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
By Joshua Holland, at Alternet. Although many people are going to find this ’sudden crash’ difficult, as we are almost all tied into globalised civilisation, a complete stop of all economic activity is what is needed if we are to reduce carbon emissions. We don’t need trade for the sake of trade, and the only [...] Read more »
Posted in climate chaos, sustainability on Feb 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
If you ever needed proof of how far the majority of the environmental movement is from figuring out the core truths of the ecological and social catastrophe facing this planet, it can be found in this article written by former US Vice-President Al Gore and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Indeed, the very title of this [...] Read more »
Posted in not 'hope', resistance, sane words on Feb 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
An excerpt from a free online book called A Matter of Scale, also by Keith Farnish.
One: Reward Us For Being Good Consumers
The rewards of life are manifold: love, a feeling of belonging, happiness and pleasure, a sense of wellbeing having done good things – all of these are rewards in themselves and, ultimately, as I [...] Read more »
Posted in fascism/corporatism, sane words on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Keith Farnish on the hypocrisy of the annual greenwashing event known as ‘Earth Day’:
I want you to forget about April 22, 2009. Just do whatever you normally do on that day; don’t write anything in your diary; don’t put a circle round the date on your calendar; don’t make a special effort to talk about [...] Read more »
Posted in collapse, sane words on Feb 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
by Dmitry Orlov, reprinted from Energy Bulletin.
The following talk was given on February 13, 2009, at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, to an audience of 550 people. Audio and video of the talk will be available on Long Now Foundation web site.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for showing up. It’s [...] Read more »
Posted in collapse, peak food on Feb 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
by Eric deCarbonnel, on GlobalResearch.ca
After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts. This project ended up taking a lot longer than I thought. 2009 looks to be a humanitarian disaster around much of the world
To [...] Read more »
Posted in peak oil, sane words on Feb 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
by James Howard Kunstler, reprinted from Alternet.
Venturing out each day into this land of strip malls, freeways, office parks, and McHousing pods, one can’t help but be impressed at how America looks the same as it did a few years ago, while seemingly overnight we have become another country. All the old mechanisms that enabled [...] Read more »
Posted in collapse, selfsufficiency on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »
First of a proposed series of articles at The Oil Drum: Campfire, about adapting to the new paradigm/culture without having to move. By Sharon Astyk.
The first question to ask is whether we should take in-place adaptation seriously at all. Shouldn’t we, ideally, try and choose the best possible place to deal with the coming crisis?
Some [...] Read more »
Posted in collapse on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »
What does a doom prophetess do when the stuff she’s been predicting is already happening, asks Sharon Astyk at Casaubon’s Book.
Despite the fact that there are plenty of people out there who view me as wildly apocalyptic, I don’t actually consider myself a doomer. My own feeling is that while radical restructuring awaits us, our [...] Read more »
Posted in collapse, peak oil on Feb 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Article on Surviving Peak Oil Blog.
Recent news headlines reveal that the U.S. economy is deteriorating rapidly: “Be Prepared for More Cutbacks,” “Mass Layoffs Continue at Rapid Pace,” and “Economy’s Plunge is Worst in Quarter-Century.”
The Work Bank forecasts that the recession of 2008 will extend into 2009 and probably to 2010:
“A pronounced recession is believed to [...] Read more »
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