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Category Archives: Where to Be or Not to Be
How to survive a nuclear winter
[ Clearly you’d want to move to Australia or New Zealand or stockpile 5 years of food. Related posts: Nuclear winter: World-wide ozone loss from small nuclear war = 1 billion + deaths The EMP Commission estimates a nationwide blackout … Continue reading
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Escape to Mars to solve our problems? How absurd
Go to Mars? Really? We tried already did, and it didn’t work out. Remember the $250 million 3.14 acre sealed Biosphere 2 complex near Tucson, Arizona back? It was built to show how colonists could survive on Mars and other … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extinction, Far Out, Human Nature, Planetary Boundaries, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged biosphere, colonize, Mars, space
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Water-borne diseases will increase as energy declines
[ Drinking water and sewage treatment plants are the main reason lifespans nearly doubled. Not medicine. Read Laurie Garrett’s “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health” for details. As energy declines, the ability of towns and cities to … Continue reading
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Scientists on where to be in the 21st century based on sustainability
[Note: Hall & Day recently published a book based on the ideas below. America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions: Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends (book review). The magazine Popular Science also took a stab at the best places to be … Continue reading
Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union
[ A great post by Dmitry Orlov about what collapse may be like, the best strategies to survive, and why the Russian way of life and culture prepared them far better for hard times than will be the case in … Continue reading
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Book list: What to do
There are plenty of survivalist websites, and I’ve certainly thought about how to survive, but I’m madly in love with my techno-optimist husband, so we’re not going to do anything, and I’ll be front row in Oakland California even though … Continue reading
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Tagged book list, survival, what to do, where to be
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Climate change impacts on agriculture in the U.S.
[ I’ve added a senate hearing from 2013 on drought, fire, and freeze effects on agriculture below. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation, 2015, Springer] Notes from 25 page: Hatfield, J., … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, BioInvasion, Drought, Extreme Weather, Heat, Soil, Soil, Water, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged climage change, disease, erosion, food production, pests, soil, water, weeds
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Richard Duncan : Olduvai Gorge – Civilization ends when Electric Grids Permanently Fail
The Olduvai Theory – Heading into the Gorge By Richard C. Duncan, Ph.D. Volume 23, Number 2 (Winter 2013) Summary: The Olduvai Theory is defined as the ratio of world energy production and population. It states that average energy production … Continue reading
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29 Things to Keep in Mind about buying Real Estate
This is an edited down version of 30 Reasons To Get Out Of Real Estate And Into REAL Assets by “Don’t Tread on Me” at businessinsider.com. The shift from paper assets to real assets is driven by money/debt creation. Since … Continue reading
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How can you buy a farm when you’re competing with private equity?
Looks like it will be hard to buy a farm unless you’re wealth. But in the crisis phase you don’t want to own a large farm anyhow… Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity February 19th, 2014. By … Continue reading
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