Posts Tagged ‘crisis’
I’m looking at an article in Vox, the latest of several I’ve seen on the subject of a microbe that can eat plastic. It says, Now researchers around the world are rushing to coax the bacterium to do more: eat different kinds of plastic, digest them faster, and make something valuable out of the end […]
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Tags: civilization, collapse, crisis, eat, eating, eats, end of the world, microbe, microplastics, nanofibers, plastic, plastics, science, wild
First, this note from CNNMoney: “NEW YORK (Reuters) — Countrywide Financial Corp. Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo said the U.S. housing market is unlikely to recover before 2009, as lenders and homeowners work through oversupply, stagnating home prices and the excesses of recent lax lending standards in much of the mortgage industry.” People have to have […]
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Tags: bigger fool, crisis, homes, housing, mortgage, real estate, recession
Three hundred years ago, Thomas Malthus predicted that human population would always tend to outpace food production, and that this would ordinarily lead to widespread starvation – but that people tend to respond by restricting their own reproduction to match the available resources. The fact of great differences in birthrates and starvation levels, from one […]
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Tags: crisis, desert, drought, famine, food, North Korea, nuclear, starvation, terrorist, threat
We’ve known about human-induced climate change for more than half a century. Important things have been changed in response: auto emission rates, use of chlorofluorocarbons, recycling. These changes have not been remotely sufficient to repair the problem, unfortunately. It has generally taken dramatic events to bring about significant improvements. The question for the future, then, […]
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Tags: catastrophe, collapse, crisis, damage, drought, earthquakes, environment, fracking, prediction, water
[I have moved this post to my leisure blog.]
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Wikipedia tells me that middle age has been defined in different ways, starting somewhere between 35 and 45 and running on to somewhere between 50 and 65. I’m not too clear, yet, on the line between middle and old age. But since I’m 55, I think I have probably at least entered middle age, and […]
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Tags: age, aging, Americans, average, crisis, development, expectancy, liberation, life, median, mid-life, middle, midlife, span
People desperately need money now. So give them money. If any one nation does this by itself, its currency will become worthless. If you print endless amounts of dollars and give them to all American citizens, you help them wipe out their debt, but it will take a stack of dollars to buy a single […]
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Tags: credit crunch, crisis, financial system, global inflation, money
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