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Category Archives: Experts
The scientific consensus: we are screwed if we don’t act soon
May 21, 2013. Scientific consensus on maintaining Humanity’s life support systems in the 21st century. Essential points for policy makers. Stanford University. Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point. Human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet. … Continue reading
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Ministry of Defence Strategic Trends South Asia out to 2040
Strategic Trends Programme. Regional Survey – South Asia out to 2040. Ministry of Defence. Nafeez Ahmed. June 2013. Rising energy prices will challenge western way of life – MoD report. The Guardian. Converging global trends will dramatically lower prosperity in … Continue reading
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World Resources Institute: Within 12 years food production will go down
For a variety of reasons, this report concludes that food production is likely to go down within the next 12 years, not up. The World Resources Institute recently came out with a report that throws into doubt our ability to … Continue reading
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Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Climate Change Will
The growing threats of nuclear war and environmental catastrophe make it hard to bet on the survival of our species. Watch the video at: http://www.thenation.com/video/173205/noam-chomsky-if-nuclear-war-doesnt-get-us-climate-change-will#
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David Korowicz: Tipping point near-term systemic implications of a Peak in global Oil production
[ This is the most brilliant and succinct paper I’ve ever seen that explains the interdependencies of our economic, energy, infrastructure, food, and other systems. It is so well-written that you ought to read the entire paper, my summary can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged collapse, investment, peakoil
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Tariel Mórrígan: Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization.
Morrigan, Tariel. Oct 2010. Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization. The current peak oil Crisis. University of California, Santa Barbara. Peak oil is happening now. The era of cheap and abundant oil is over. • Global … Continue reading
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Nate Hagens rebuttal of Bill McKibbens “Politics: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”
Timeline: die-off: event odds low 10-15% next 10-20 years, though higher after that (1 Dec 2012). End-of-growth realized by public: 90% next few years, 99% in 5-7 years (1 Dec 2012) 17 Oct 2012 Rebuttal of Bill McKibbens 19 July … Continue reading
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Summary of Hirsch & Bezdek 2005 DOE Peak Oil study
A summary of: Hirsch, R. L., et al. February 2005. Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, mitigation, & risk management. Department of Energy. The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. … Continue reading
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Extinction has Nearly Happened Before: The Human Bottleneck
Sam Kean. 19 Jul 2012. Blogging the Human Genome Entry 10: The chromosomal evidence that mankind nearly went extinct. Slate.com Take your pick for the cause of our near-extinction—ice ages, plagues, Indonesian gigavolcanoes. But humans have far less genetic diversity … Continue reading
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Hirsch predicts Oil Shocks by 2017, panic, and stock market crash
I believe oil shocks could lead to a FAST CRASH Robert L. Hirsch was the author of the first US government report on peak oil in 2005, which recommended taking action to mitigate Peak Oil at least 20 years before … Continue reading
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Tagged hirsch, liquid fuel crisis, transportation
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