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Rich nations grabbing land from poor nations

[ There are so many nations grabbing land from other nations that I gave up trying to summarize this excellent book and just used a few paragraphs from NewScientist.  Having to import food is a clear sign of being over … Continue reading

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Tad Patzek: Face Reality & Educate Yourself

9 July 2012.  What to do?  ASPO-USA. When I share with people my assessments of where the Earthlings are stumbling rather blindly, my listeners often say: “Oh, you are such a pessimist! What would you do differently?” My short answer … Continue reading

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William Rees

Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) He is the originator of ‘ecological footprint analysis.’ He is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and a Founding Fellow of the One Earth Initiative. 23 … Continue reading

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Sharon Astyk on coping with collapse

Summary of 19 Mar 2012 ASPO Peak Oil Review editorial “Collapse? Really?”: If a collapse of some sort does happen, what helps? Social support systems and safety nets strengthened Making medical care, food and shelter available small-scale agriculture in urban … Continue reading

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Richard Heinberg

Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair I think the likelihood of a coherent national, government-led strategy to adapt to the end of cheap energy and to the end of easy credit and so on is just … Continue reading

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Dennis Meadows “Learning to Live within Limits”

Steven W. Running at the University of Montana wrote in the Sep 21, 2012 issue of Science: “Forty years ago, Meadows et al. published a landmark first analysis of global limits to human activity (Meadows). Based on a primitive computer … Continue reading

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