This Is What Collapse Looks Like
1,180 ViewsThere are countless examples of the collapse already showing itself. New Zealand has some of the highest fuel costs in the world. Costa Rica is already experiencing blackouts due to drought. India is threatening power cuts, as is Tiawan, & Columbia. Denver is running very low on gasoline. $4 gasoline is expected this year. Gasoline inventories are at an 18 month low (we only have 24 days of fuel on hand in the entire country).
Australia is having severe water shortages that will affect everything, even food. Even food shortages in the U.S. are forcing imports of grain, once thought unthinkable, while wheat prices soar. The breadbasket of Canada is shrinking. South Africa faces a potato shortage due to drought. Florida is loosing lakes, Georgia is in flames, Nevada and the Sierra’s are facing significant drought.
Switzerland, Thialand and Italy are also facing drought and energy collapse. Zimbabwe is going to have to import water by train to hydrate it’s citizens. Add Taiwan, Hawaii to the global bee collapse.
There’s a lot more, but do you really need to see it? Collapse is happening, right now, all over the world. The climate change deniers be damned. Feeding the world is growing more serious everyday. No water = no food. No energy = no food. No energy & no water = global resource wars, chaos, starvation, death and destruction. Armageddon is actually spelled c.o.l.l.a.p.s.e.
Rising energy costs will continue to be felt throughout all sectors of the economy. Future wars will all be fought over energy, water and arable land as the world scrambles to stay alive. The massive immigration flood into the U.S. is about receiving a better standard of living, which includes adequate food, water and shelter. But it will all come at a very high price as billions around the world are displaced by economic and environmental collapse and overstrained resources are depleted to exhaustion.
The collapse is ongoing, it’s happening now, all over the world but most Americans still believe they are somehow immune by wishful thinking. We may indeed be the fatted calf, but it’s only because we’re all being led to the slaughter by the ring in our nose.
April 28th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
US to suck (steal) Canada’s water resources (ntm oil and gas, hydroelectric, wheat, timber, bauxite, uranium … )
Peak Water in the rear view mirror!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607G.shtml
NAU enroute and on schedule - as well as collapse.
At some point, optimism seamlessly morphs into stupidity.
“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.” Henrik Tikkanen
April 28th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
The collapse is plain to see and doesn’t require guessing. Wow, what interesting times.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Looks like I did not miss much this week. Just reading this post plus LW link shows the dots are lining up.
Went here
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html
to check on some population stats, noticed the third chart down had a huge dip in 59-60 era, reading the second paragraph down gives one explanation.
The stat is backed up here
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/
LUC/ChinaFood/
data/pop/pop_10.htm
That 30 million drop in 1959/60 China was due to famine and related diseases and would have been about 4.4% of there population of 675 million. Fast forward to todays pop. of 1.3 billion and substitute drought, pollution and manufacturing for the Great Leap Forward then a 4.4% drop would be almost 60 million in one year, it would almost equal the population of Iran. Or one could look at the world and if 4.4% drop of 6.59 billion would be 290 million. Almost the population of the US in one year!
Crash is going to look really ugly.
This is a cool site showing population densities
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/
LUC/ChinaFood/
argu/trends/trend_10.htm
with China economy growing at over 10% per year and the government unable to slow it down we could see the slow crash that is ongoing there accelerate to a neck breaking rate.
The section
“Population density and food security”
has an idiotic argument against Malthusian theory. I like this quote the best
“First, the food production potential of a certain land area is not constant; it can be increased by agricultural technology, sometimes by orders of magnitude (for instance, Libya’s growing of wheat in the desert). The limitation often is not land or water as such, but access to technology and investment capital.”
Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy only worse.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[…] I want to disappear into the mist. The ancient Chinese poets did. Why can’t I? I’m tired of trying to convince others. I’m tired of trying to convince myself. What if I simply gave myself permission to disappear into the mist? I don’t want to be a part of this culture, but this culture is all around me, above me, below me, in me. I can’t escape it. It permeates all. It touches everything…and destroys. There is no escaping it, only navigating it, only preparing for its collapse and it IS collapsing. I long for its collapse but I know that I’m not ready for it. I don’t know how to grow my own food, treat my own water, build an adequate shelter, make my own clothing and shoes. Civilization has taken that from me and left me as helpless as a child, completely dependent upon it. I live daily with PTSD because of this culture. And the trauma continues daily. I can’t escape it. I feel it in my body and soul. I suffer as do all others; my nature friends included. […]