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- Catton on Collapse “Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse”
- Book Review of Grain Brain: Extraordinary claim not backed up by evidence
- Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?
- What would happen if trucks stopped running?
- How to survive a nuclear winter
- 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 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
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US Department of Energy 1980 oil rationing plan
Preface. This plan was written after the two energy crises in the 1970s, but never enacted. Republicans voted it down in Congress. Perhaps the Republican plan is to ration by wealth. But how well would that work? Chaos and looting … Continue reading
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Zero to One Child per Woman: The only possible solution at this late date
Excerpt from “The Sky Is Falling: Chicken Little Was Right All Along” by Don Wilkin Nov 2013. “I am convinced the only equitable, humane, and effective way to pull our fat out of the fire at this late date, if … Continue reading
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Survival: stay out of institutions
I’ve always been amazed at how many people are not in the labor force and that the taxes on those who work can support everyone else. Including those who are institutionalized. On the other hand, I ran across a survivalist … Continue reading
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Tagged institutionalized, juvenile detention, nursing home, peak oil, prison, wheelchair
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Survival: avoid disease and disability
If you want to have a shot at making it through the worst of the collapse stay healthy and avoid accidents. Medicine will be less available as the depression grows worse and businesses fail. Below are some statistics about various … Continue reading
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Stephen Hawking: Escape to another planet before we go extinct
The only method of propulsion we have to escape the planet is, you guessed it, fossil fuels, and they don’t come anywhere near to getting us to the speed of light necessary to get to even the closest star. Nor … 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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Oakland Depletion Protocol
Oakland, California: Local Depletion Protocol By Alice Friedemann Latest revision February 21, 2006 Note: I’ve been adding to this as time permits since April 2005, as I read about the history of agriculture, transportation, etc. This was first posted July … Continue reading
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Birth Control Impossible due to Religion, they prefer you die of starvation, disease, and war
What a horror: so-called “Pro-Life” religions force their nasty beliefs on a woman’s right to control her own destiny and a civilizations ability to decently house and feed citizens, dooming societies of the future crazed from hunger and disease brought … Continue reading
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Tagged birth control, collapse, disease, hunger, pro-life, religion, starvation, war, women's right to choose
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Dan Allen: When collapse happens, help it crash faster
What Dan Allen writes below is what many scientists and ecological activists are thinking and saying privately. Read his entire post at resilience.org for context, since this slice of the article seems rather harsh and cruel. But all the other … Continue reading
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Tagged deep ecology, derrick jensen, peak oil, rapid collapse, what you can do
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How to find a good Property insurance company
What is a good homeowners insurance company? Solvent enough to pay your claim in a large disaster such as a fire or earthquake, and willing to pay you a reasonable amount of money in timely manner. After the 2008 financial … Continue reading
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