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Category Archives: 2) Collapse
The fall of the roman empire from plagues and climate change
Preface. The book “The Fate of Rome Climate Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper shows the brutal effects of plagues, climate change, and their joint interaction of the Roman Empire. This doesn’t rule out all the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Pandemic, Roman Empire, Transportation
Tagged climate change, collapse, pandemic, plague, roman empire
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From wood to fossil fueled civilizations — the greatest tragedy mankind will ever know
[ These are my notes from this book about how we went from an organic sustainable economy to a temporary fossil-fueled one. It’s one of the few books I’ve found that explains what life was like before fossil fuels in … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Experts, Supply Chains
Tagged agriculture, biomass, coal, food, industrial revolution, transition, wood
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Why facts don’t change our mind
[ Below are excerpts from this article. Longish descriptions of various studies at Stanford and elsewhere lead to conclusions such as Once formed impressions are remarkably perseverant Even after the evidence for their beliefs has been totally refuted, people failed … Continue reading
Richard Heinberg on why low oil prices do not mean there is plenty of oil, EROI, collapse
[ Yet another wise, thoughtful, and wide-ranging essay from my favorite writer of the many facets of a civilization about to decline as it is starved of the fossil fuels that feed it. Although the topics are quite varied, Heinberg … Continue reading
Posted in Oil, Peter Turchin, Richard Heinberg, Social Disorder
Tagged 100% renewable, collapse, EROI, oil, prices, richard heinberg, social instability, violence
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Preventing economic shock wave: Securing the port of Houston from a terrorist attack
[ An attack on (LNG) ships, oil tankers, or the Houston port facilities Houston would cause an oil shock, since a third of oil refining takes place there, and it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Disasters, Oil & Gas, Terrorism
Tagged financial collapse, terrorism oil shock
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What can California do about sea level rise?
Projected sea level rise from one meter (dark red) to six meters (light orange) in California’s Bay Area. (Weiss and Overpeck 2011) Preface. Nearly all, if not all, possible solutions to rising sea levels along all the coasts in the … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Infrastructure, Railroads, Roads, Sea Level Rise, Sewage treatment, Transportation
Tagged dike, elevated, floating, infrastructure, levees, sea level rise, seawalls
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Hurricanes will lower Gulf and East Coast carrying capacity
Preface. New Orleans and much of the gulf and east coast remain vulnerable to severe weather, and require help from the federal government to recover. Clearly as climate change worsens this will only become more of a problem in the … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Sea Level Rise
Tagged climate change, disaster, hurricane
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Human over-consumption causes far more biodiversity loss than climate change
2016-8-13. Climate change isn’t the biggest danger to Earth’s wildlife, our thirst for natural resources is even more damaging (2016-8-10 “Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets, and bulldozers” Nature) For better or worse, human society has developed into a force … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Extinction
Tagged biodiversity, climate change, extinction, overconsumption
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Toxic algae slime spreading quickly across the earth
2017-8-19. Ocean Slime Spreading Quickly Across the Earth. Craig Welch, National Geographic. Toxic algae blooms, perhaps accelerated by ocean warming and other climate shifts, are spreading, poisoning marine life and people. When sea lions suffered seizures and birds and porpoises … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, Fisheries, Oceans, Water
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Threats to America’s drinking and sewage treatment infrastructure
[ Here are a few of the points made in this 170 page document about improving the nation’s water system security (excerpts follow): There are many potential threats to water infrastructure, including terrorism, failure of aging infrastructure, flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, … Continue reading
Posted in CyberAttacks, Disease, Terrorism, Water, Water
Tagged disease, infrastructure, terrorism, water
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