Collapse
Compounding growth + finite resources = disaster
“We’re Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions,” headlines a Business Insider article on Jeremy Grantham’s “startlingly depressing outlook for the future of humanity.” Grantham manages $97 billion in assets at GMO, so it’s his business to recognize threats to his clients’ financial security. But he’s become concerned about threats to their very lives. “The [...]
Environment increasingly unable to cope with us
“Each of the global problems we face today is the result of too many people using too much of our planet’s finite, non-renewable resources and filling its waste repositories of land, water and air to overflowing.” Business Insider quotes Paul Chefurka (Population: The Elephant in the Room). “The true danger posed by our exploding population [...]
Is it too late to prevent ‘civilization-threatening climate disruption’?
As noted elsewhere on truthalyzer.com, Sir James Lovelock, perhaps best known for his Gaia Theory of Earth as a living system, was one of the first to say, in his books, lectures, and interviews, that Earth’s climate is past the point of no return and destined for runaway “global heating,” as he prefers to call [...]
Global corporate dystopia
“The world as we know it is coming to an end. And what will follow will not be pleasant or easy.” Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his NY Times coverage of global terrorism, writes in Adbusters about corporate dystopia. “The bankrupt corporate power elite, who continue to serve the dead ideas of unfettered [...]
Zero Point of Systemic Collapse
“We stand on the cusp of one of the bleakest periods in human history when the bright lights of a civilization blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. . . . All traditional standards and beliefs are shattered . . . . The moral order is turned upside down. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earth Day(dreaming)
This 40th annual Earth Day — April 22, 2010 — follows last month’s 4th annual Earth Hour and 12th annual World Water Day. Forgive me, but this blitz of environmental days is leaving me dazed. It’s not that I don’t concur with Earth Day’s high-minded objective “to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and [...]
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 [...]
Guest essay: Life after growth
Life after growth by Richard Heinberg What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. For states, counties, cities, and towns; for manufacturers, retailers, and middle- and [...]
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