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 [...]
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UN, Oxfam Reports: Brace for Impact.
November 28, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The drumbeat of dire warnings continues about the inevitable and imminent collapse of the world’s food supply before the combined onslaughts of industrial agriculture and climate change. Despite the increasing number of scientific reports documenting ever more ominous conditions and prospects worldwide, the response from the people who [...]
Zombie Weeds Attack: Desperate Farmers Resort to Hoes
July 22, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Farmers across the Midwest and South — those whose crops are not under water or blowing away in a hot, dry wind — are besieged by an enemy straight out of a stupid horror movie: an army of undead weeds that cannot be killed by chemicals. It’s as [...]
New York Times Explodes Natural-Gas Bubble
June 28, 2011
Once in a great while a newspaper (“The few. The frail. The fading.”) reminds us why we need newspapers, and why we are going to miss them. There are no other institutions left whose purpose (speaking here of the practitioners, not the investors) is to seek the facts and tell the truth. On Friday, the [...]
Wall Street Bulls Trampling Farmland
May 26, 2011
![The Wall Street Bull is off again, and as always, he's about to run us all off a cliff. [Photo by Sylvain Leprovost/Flickr]](http://www.dailyimpact.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/bull-e1306427670664.jpg)
The idiots savant who lead Wall Street stampedes off cliffs have a new sure thing: by which they mean a sure-fire, get-rich-quick scheme; and from which we should infer, take cover. First, the savant part; more and more of them are coming to believe that when you apply arithmetic and logic to the rate at [...]
Hedge Fund Guy Says Brace for Impact: Believe it Now?
May 3, 2011
Jeremy Grantham is the chief investment strategist for the Boston firm GMO, one of the world’s largest asset management companies ($107 billion in the portfolio at the end of last year). The title of his current newsletter to investors is “Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices are Over Forever.” In [...]
California Reaming: Big Ag Trashes Central Valley
March 23, 2011
California’s Central Valley is probably the best example of the past success and imminent failure of industrial agriculture. The signs of the scope and proximity of the failure are accumulating fast, but while the past success has many wealthy fathers, the coming failure is an orphan.
Reflection: The New American Evolution
December 4, 2010
The imminent collapse of industrial society, an unavoidable consequence of its destruction of the web of life that supports it, is not the same thing as the end of the world, or the end of humanity. It is simply evolution at work. The world will shrug off its wounds — the only thing we underestimate [...]
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