Fifty Million Farmers
One way or another, re-ruralization will be the dominant social trend of the 21st century.
Overshoot
Attitude adjustment: Facing our ecological predicament
The approach which is hardest to sell seems like the safest. It relies on the concrete, concerted actions of people everywhere doing things that require no miracles of technology, no rosy assumptions about the future availability of critical resources, and only limited faith in the marketplace. It is an approach that one can get started on today without the enactment of any big government program.
Peak oil – Nov 9
ASPO-USA conference presentations online /
Our natural gas treadmill (ASPO talk) /
EB interviewed about recent energy stories /
Sad news from Michael Ruppert and FTW /
Ruppert: Evolution – a matter of community
Enlightened survivalism
A true survivalist hopes deep in their heart that the good life never ends for anybody. They just know that trouble sometimes does happen, and want to be as well situated as they can be if bad things do come to be.
£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change
Landmark report reveals apocalyptic cost of global warming.
Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will cost the world up to £3.68 trillion unless it is tackled within a decade.
Reasons to prepare for potential future disruptions (other than peak oil)
Many of us who are aware of (dare I say preoccupied with) peak oil and its likely effects on an unprepared world tend to get so fixated on it (I know I do), that the potential for other factors to also cause disruption is neglected.
Population – Oct 23
Author of ‘The Population Bomb’ Revisits Predictions /
Booming Populations Threaten East Asian Coasts /
As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom /
Lester Brown: US population no cause for celebration
Catastrophe? – Oct 22
Bill McKibben: How close to catastrophe? /
American Scientist: Rethinking the fall of Easter Island
Peak oil – Oct 21
Ghawar: Water and oil don’t mix /
Keep your eye on non-opec production /
The Y2K fallacy /
Major problems Of surviving peak oil
Consumerism & population – Oct 17
The Inuit and the cure for affluence
Albert Bartlett and the 300 million
The next 100 million and the face of America
An elephant crackup?
Plan B and Plan B
Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives while ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth’s life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers.
Today is World Overshoot Day
The day that we begin living beyond our ecological means is creeping ever earlier in the year as human consumption grows.