1. Supervolcano kills off most humans — About 70,000 years ago the Toba volcano, in Sumatra, Indonesia, exploded, releasing 2,800 cubic kilometers of vaporized rock into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight for several years and falling to the ground as a deep cover of ash. This blast was so big that we refer to Toba as [...]
In Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines, Richard Heinberg addresses “a frightening array of peaks” mankind faces in the new century: oil, natural gas, coal, uranium and other crucial metals and minerals, as well as peak population, climate stability, fresh water, arable land, and grain and wild fish harvests. Heinberg notes the [...]