[The following article, a condensation and adaptation of the arguments presented in my book Brace for Impact: Surviving the Crash of the Industrial Age, appears as the lead article in the May issue of the emagazine livebetter , published by the Center for a Better Life. Click on the above link to read their presentation, or [...]
Apocalypse When?
When Highways, not Vehicles, Crash and Burn
April 9, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Its merits as a highway aside, the Capital Beltway (the 64-mile-long ring road around Washington, DC) has served this nation well, for more than half a century, as a metaphor. There simply is no better, quicker or less obscene way to describe a political hack than to invoke [...]
“Canaries in Coal Mines” Dying Fast: Evacuation Recommended
March 16, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download In case you missed the memo: when you are mining coal, and the canary in the cage you brought with you to the work face indicates the presence of deadly methane gas by dying, you are directed to get the hell out of the mine. The canary’s death [...]
Renowned Scientist Says Global Collapse “Likely”
January 28, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download According to a paper appearing in the March Proceedings of the Royal Society, “Now, for the first time, a global collapse [of civilization] appears likely.” The paper makes, in a scholarly, peer-reviewed manner, many of the same points about the existential threats that I made in my book [...]
1,000 Risk Experts say: Brace for Impact
January 13, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download More than 1,000 experts on risk, consulted by the World Economic Forum for an upcoming annual meeting, agree that a perfect storm of rising risk, primarily driven by global climate change, and declining economic resilience pose mortal threats to governments, businesses and society in the near future.
Australia Burning: US Smoldering
January 10, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download One of our continents is on fire. Australia is in the midst of a heat wave like none it has ever seen. On Monday the average high temperature — the average for the entire country — was 105 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the fifth consecutive day the national [...]
Superstorm Sandy: Tasting Apocalypse Now
October 31, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Sandy has done us a great favor by giving us a preview of our new normal — a future in which storms assume the size of continents, “waterfront home” becomes an oxymoron and life — even the lives of the rich and famous — becomes much more tenuous. [...]
18 Wheelers: Endangered Species
July 6, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The industrial machine that is America today is not a person (any more than a corporation is), but if it were, we would understand clearly that its vascular system — the mechanical network that supplies petro-nutrients to all its robot parts, without which it cannot survive for a [...]
Thunderstorms Threaten WV Famine
July 5, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The third horseman of the Apocalypse — Famine — is abroad in West Virginia today, the day after Independence Day 2012, because of a thunderstorm. In a stunning development illustrating the fragility of the industrial food chain, people in many of West Virginia’s counties began experiencing hunger three [...]
Apocalypse Any Minute: The Sun Storm Scenario
February 7, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Add to the list of mortal threats to the continued existence of the industrial age another inevitable, natural event to which we have exposed the throat of our machine. You may know about the threat of solar storms — I wrote about it here in January of 2011 [...]
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