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The Soviet breakdown in the 1990s had some peculiar advantages to the U.S. dysfunctionality. Bloated bureaucracies move slowly, and are therefore slow to die. Long bread-lines force people to consider backup lans, like kitchen gardens.From "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (2008), Orlov identi (Read More)
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Every year, because of our misuse of the Earth's resources, we lose 100 million acres of farmland and 24 billion tons of topsoil, and we create 15 million acres of new desert around the world. An inch of good topsoil can take a thousand years to form, but when people destroy windbreaks by cutting down trees, the topsoil can (Read More)
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Rapid energy-decline rates, severe climate change symptoms.In this scenario, supplies of high-quality fossil fuels decline rapidly, the economy fails, and human contributions to global warming collapse, but lag effects and positive feedbacks in the climate system continue to drive an acceleration of global warming. As of 20 (Read More)
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Rapid energy decline, mild climate change symptoms.The shock of limited energy resources are a shock to the world's fragile financial systems, resulting in severe economic depression and sharp resource wars. This economic collapse and these political stresses prevent the development of more expensive and large-scale nonrene (Read More)
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Supply is stuck permanently at 85 million barrels per day, and demand will keep rising over the long term, Pickens says. By 2019, demand will reach 90 million barrels a day, he predicts.“The only way if you peak on supply that you can kill demand is with price,” Pickens says. That’s what happened when oil prices hit a high (Read More)
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Robert Prechter [1], 13 August, 2009:“I expect crude oil prices to fall below $10 a barrel sometime over the next decade,” Prechter, founder of Elliott Wave International Inc., said in an e-mail yesterday. “It took many years for it to achieve $147.50, and it will take a long while for the full retreat to occur.”Oil should (Read More)
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Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) introduces the Community Gardens Act of 2009Today, Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) introduced the Community Gardens Act of 2009 with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) The bill creates a grant program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to compensate community groups for up (Read More)
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forbes.com By Chris Nelder, 07.24.09, 03:00 PM EDT Prepare for a radically different lifestyle as global crude oil production peaks and begins to decline. You will never see cheap gasoline again. You will probably never see cheap energy again. Oil, natural gas and coal are set to peak and go into decline within the (Read More)
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Los Angeles TimesChristopher Steiner looks ahead and projects, $2 at a time, how rising gasoline prices will transform civilization.By Matthew DeBordAmazon.com - $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the BetterDuring the summer of 2008, Americans found out just how much w (Read More)
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BusinessDayPut a group of oil experts under one roof for a while and their discussion is likely to drift to the subject of peak oil — a point in time when maximum oil production is reached, after which it goes into permanent decline.The advent of peak oil has long been brushed aside by some because it seems like a far-fetch (Read More)
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Richard Heinberg's MuseletterBy Richard HeinbergOn July 11, 2008, the price of a barrel of oil hit a record $147.27 in daily trading. That same month, world crude oil production achieved a record 74.8 million barrels per day.For years prior to this, a growing legion of analysts had been arguing that world oil production wou (Read More)
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canada.comBy Barbara YaffeOil at $200 a barrel is not far off and with it a new world order that will see the demise of globalization.That prediction is put forward in a new book by well-known Canadian economist Jeff Rubin: Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller.Money, of course, makes the world go round and whe (Read More)
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A Declaration Of Food Sovereignty "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural." –Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. PresidentIn the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, we declare our support for the agrarian dream: the dream of true democracy and of self-sufficiency. It is a d (Read More)
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If you haven't yet, read the Declaration of Independence asap! Thomas Jefferson kept it under 3 pages long and the parallels to today's government evils are astute.Citizens from the town should present, as an official public service, the Town select boardsmen a declaration (not of independence, but) that, "whereas famine, d (Read More)
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Domestic FuelBy Joanna SchroederUnder the surface we seem to have a lot of it. It’s fairly inexpensive but this is changing as demand rises to meet increased energy needs especially in countries like China. So we have a lot, its cheap, let’s use it, what’s the problem? Right? Wrong!Author Richard Heinberg writes in Blackout (Read More)
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