[This article, written by Alan Urban for the website okdoomer.io is an updated mirror image of the arguments I made in my 2009 book Brace for Impact. Not many people agree, so I wanted you to see it.]
That’s right. Our entire global industrial civilization is going to collapse. And soon, which means within the lifetimes of most people alive today.
I realize this is quite the claim, and a pretty terrifying one if you’re under 50 or so. In this article, I will list 10 problems the world is facing, each of which could cause the collapse of civilization all on its own. Which means, if even one of these problems isn’t solved, our civilization is doomed.
Before I continue, let me explain what I mean by “collapse.” First of all, it doesn’t necessarily mean that humans will go extinct. While that is certainly a plausible scenario given the many existential threats we are facing, I still believe it is unlikely. Small groups of humans survived in very difficult conditions for tens of thousands of years.
I’d forgotten about the bugs – bugs splattered on the windshield after a Sunday drive in the country in our ’54 Chevy station wagon; bug guts, dried in the summer sun, that needed to be scraped from the windshield and headlights, and sometimes even wire-brushed off the radiator grille. My father would curse, and, while driving, would try to use the windshield wiper-washer to clear them away. Sometimes that worked for the smaller bugs, but for the larger specimens it just spread a yellowish gore in a grim arch. It’s been, God decades, since I’ve hit a bug!
The bats are gone too. I guess, no bugs – no bats.
When I was yo0ng we had to install screens in front of the radiators of all vehicles, or the radiators would soon be plugged up with dead bugs, and very, very difficult to clean. Also, as I recount in the book, one of my first and most jolting realizations was that I was no longer seeing flovks of gulls following the equipment on our farm fields, as they always had. There were nbo more gulls because we had killed all the earthworms.
“Slip slidin’ away”….Paul Simon