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Remember back in the 90’s when internet stocks were way up, much higher than they should have been? There was a Dot Com Bubble. Remember in 2000 when it burst? Well, that got me thinking…
Right now, we’re in the midst of an Energy Consumption Bubble. We’re using a lot more energy [...]

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It occurs to me that we could plan for the future, and for our children sure, but we could also engineer our own demise out of a desire for meaning. The Greatest Generation had meaning because they defeated the Nazis. Deep down, we all want to be special. What if some of [...]

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Since I’ve never had to live through a major situation in which the powers that be deemed it necessary to ration water and electricity, one of my main memories of such an event is from an episode of, “The Twilight Zone.” In it, the earth is moving closer and closer to the sun. [...]

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I think even if we cross the point of no return, and get into a feedback loop in which things get worse and worse, there’s always the hope that some monumental breakthrough can turn things around. Like John Connor, our saving grace will bring us back from the brink of destruction. Let’s just [...]

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This page reveals the details behind the UN’s new report on our environment. It doesn’t describe a very abundant future. According to the United Nations, we as a world society are almost past the point of no return. Recovery is possible, if we act now, but it seems we are too “in [...]

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This article explains how scientists working at the University of York have found that four of the five previous mass extinction events, including the one that killed the dinosaurs, coincided with a phase of increasing greenhouse gases. This led to less global biodiversity, which could be on the horizon for us.
The predicted global temperatures [...]

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A couple of theories on why dinosaurs are now extinct involve the dimming of the sky by massive amounts of dust or ash, provided either by an impacted space object or huge volcanic eruption. With less sunlight, the plants died, then the herbivores, then the carnivores. Less sunlight also would have cooled the [...]

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The hotter it is, the more moist the air will be, and the drier the ground will be. The drier the ground, the easier it is for a fire to start and quickly spread. With more extremes in weather, like droughts and floods, the easier it will be for forests to quickly dry [...]

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For those of you who haven’t read my previous post on how Global Warming is contributing to wetter air, allow me to fill you in.
Air that is warmer is capable of containing more water. By 2100, humidity worldwide may have increased by between 12 and 24 percent. Even the tiniest amount [...]

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Mark your calendars, friends! On March 29, 2008, “Lights Out America” is recommending that we all turn off nonessential lights for one hour.
Why not the full day you ask? Good question! My guess is that LOA feels that one hour without extra lighting is a widely-accepted “sacrifice” that a lot of people [...]

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