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- The insect apocalypse will kill billions more people than climate change
- The war on drugs. A book review of “Chasing the scream”
- Peak crude oil did not happen in 2018. But we are still running out of time
- Sheriffs have too much power
- Book review “They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals”
- John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
- Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
- Part 5 Raven Rock. Hidey holes for government and military officials to carry on democracy after nuclear war destroys the planet
- Become a Bison rancher
- Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
- Prisoners are treated worse than slaves in America
- Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
- Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government’s plans to save civilians from nuclear war
- Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity
- Part 1 Intro. Raven rock: the story of the U.S. governments secret plans to save itself after a nuclear war and let the rest of us die
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John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
Preface. I first published this post in 2012 and have updated it today. Below I summarize a part of a 2012 article by John Howe on having one child … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, Overpopulation, Population
Tagged collapse, fertility, overpopulation, population
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Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
Projections of business as usual from Meadow’s et al “Limits to Growth” Preface. Clearly infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Returning the world to ecological health requires humans to live within ecological boundaries in a steady state economy. … Continue reading
Posted in Debt, Economic Decline, Investing advice, Other Experts
Tagged Daly, economics, limits to growth, steady state, Trainer
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Become a Bison rancher
Preface. Far more buffalo can be grazed per acre than cattle and improve rather than destroy the ecosystem like cattle do. It’s likely wild bison will return to the Great Plains in the future. Already there are fewer people in … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Farming and Ranching
Tagged bison, buffalo, natural history
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Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
Preface. This is the fourth part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. Clearly if the U.S. government … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear War, Politics, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged bomb shelter, continuation of government, nuclear war
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Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
This is the third part of a book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. This book stresses that a full … Continue reading
Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government’s plans to save civilians from nuclear war
Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. At the outset of the cold war, scientists proposed that nationalism had to go away to prevent nuclear wars, … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear War, Politics, Refugee Camps
Tagged bomb shelter, emergency plans, evacuation, FEMA, homeland security
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Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity
Source: The Overpopulation Project (2020) Is overpopulation a dirty word? Too many people consuming too much Preface. Without fossil fuels, the carrying capacity of the planet would be around 300 million people. Fossil fuels made it possible for human population to … Continue reading
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Tagged immigration, overpopulation, population
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Book review “Women, armies, & warfare in early modern Europe”
Preface. Ever since I read that women were the pack mules in Alexander the Greats army, carrying all the food and camp gear while their men only carried a sword, I’ve wondered about the role of women in armies. Very little has … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs and Skills, Military, guns, War Books
Tagged Europe, plunder, war, warfare, women
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The growth of incarceration in the U.S. Causes and consequences. National Research Council 2014
Preface. This National Research Council 465-page report may be the most comprehensive study of the U.S. prison system there is. It will make you cry. I’ve excerpted about one-sixth of it below. It is shocking that the “U.S. penal population … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Drug wars and the prison system, Energy Policy & Politicians, Politics
Tagged jail, prisons, reform
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