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We grow food in dirt, devoid of life
“The difference between soil and dirt,” explains Rob Avis on countercurrents.org, is that “soil is alive. Dirt is dead. A single teaspoon of soil can contain billions of microscopic bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. A handful of the same soil will contain numerous earthworms, arthropods, and other visible crawling creatures. . . . These billions [...]
Time to curb population growth running out
“Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day,” says Gary Peters on The Oil Drum. “Rich nations have long assured poor nations that they, too, would one day be rich and that their rates of population growth would decline, but it [...]
Slum nation
My dystopian posts on truthalyzer.com appear optimistic compared to James Howard Kunstler’s weekly Clusterfuck Nation, as this excerpt illustrates: “It’s sad to be a citizen of a nation that can’t do anything right. . . . We live in places so extreme in ugliness, squalor, and dysfunction that just going to the store leaves a [...]
Earth becoming a smoking, glowing, oily mess
“We . . . are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess . . . plundering Mother Earth of her treasures . . . refusing to recognize the growing evidence that our reliance on oil, coal and nuclear threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world,” said Rep. Dennis [...]
Signs of collapse?
“The next stage that’s coming is political collapse which I believe will be triggered here when the nation realizes how bad the Deepwater Horizon leak really is and how it has been misled. . . . No more deepwater drilling and oil prices will spike for sure. — Or, it might come when Freddie and [...]
Peak oil reports ignored by mainstream media
“Recent weeks have seen an explosion of information on peak oil,” writes Matthew Wild on countercurrents.org, “everywhere it seems except in the mainstream media. . . . In February, the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security issued a report predicting an ‘oil crunch’ within five years. It was followed in mid-March [...]
That word “collapse” keeps popping up
“That word, ‘collapse,’” writes Paul B. Farrell in MarketWatch, “keeps popping up in news and literature: Jared Diamond, anthropologist, in his best-selling ‘Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed’ … Hedge fund manager Barton Biggs in ‘Wealth, War and Wisdom’ warns of the ‘possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure’ … Financial historian [...]
Bluefin tuna facing extinction
“Atlantic bluefin tuna could become extinct after an attempt to stop the international buying and selling [of bluefin] was rejected . . . .” CBBC’s Newsround, a website for kids, breaks the bad news to a generation that will inherit oceans devoid of tuna and most other fish. “Numbers of this this type of tuna [...]
Industrial civilization is killing the planet
“It should be clear to everyone by now—even those with a vested interest in ignorance—that industrial civilization is killing the planet. It’s causing unprecedented human privation and suffering. Unless it’s stopped, or somehow stops itself, or most likely collapses under the weight of its inherent ecological and human destructiveness, it will kill every living being [...]
A new Dark Age
Are we already in “a new Dark Age”? Here’s what Michael Minnicino says: “The people of North America and Western Europe now accept a level of ugliness in their daily lives which is almost without precedent in the history of Western civilization. Most of us have become so inured, that the death of millions from [...]
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