Speed the Collapse

Robert

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The gemme's a bogey, according to this research:

The 1972 book Limits to Growth, which predicted our civilisation would probably collapse some time this century, has been criticised as doomsday fantasy since it was published. Back in 2002, self-styled environmental expert Bjorn Lomborg consigned it to the “dustbin of history”.

It doesn’t belong there. Research from the University of Melbourne has found the book’s forecasts are accurate, 40 years on. If we continue to track in line with the book’s scenario, expect the early stages of global collapse to start appearing soon.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ight-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse
 
Seems about right on time. It's part of the reason the US is acting so seemingly impulsively. It's because we are basically already screwed. Resource extraction in the most important resource is close to going *foom*. Can you imagine oil companies losing money? It's just too damn expensive to extract and world industry can't run with oil at a higher price. China is getting cold feet about the whole thing. For all the talk about these alternative oil sources, it's still only the black stuff that comes gurgling out of the ground already liquid that is worth extracting - Saudi Arabia is running out of it. The US peaked in oil ages ago. Iran, Northern Iraq and Russia have it (and so do several African countries hence Africon). I imagine the Saudis wouldn't come out too well if the US ended up controlling all that stuff and they got cut out.

But once the oil goes, crop production has to fall too. That's a very oil intensive industry. Once crop production falls so do governments.
 
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