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Brace for Impact

http://thomasalewis.wordpress.com

Applies the principles of the book Brace for Impact -- that industrial society is on the verge of collapse, that only sustainable living can save us -- to the news of the day.

• Added on: Sep 17th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Thomas A. Lewis
• Listed in: Green Green Politics
• Tags: Renewable Energy sustainable agriculture water pollution peak oil economic crisis electric grid

Recent Posts

• The Quote of the Age

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 10:29 in 5. the end game

  “For my entire life, world leaders have been negotiating a climate agreement. They cannot tell me they need more time. There is no more time.” Christina Ora, a youth delegate from the Solomon Islands to the Copenhagen Climate Change Confe...

• Drill, Baby, WAIT!

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 07:27 in sustainable living, energy independence, natural resource exploitation, 3. energy

  The company calls itself AltaRock, which translates roughly from the Nordish as “getting high on rocks.” With a $6 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department and $30 million in venture capital (translation: “lottery ticket”...

• Dumb and Dumber

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 09:14 in politics, global warming, climate change, campaign finance, the failed state

  If you’ve ever heard a public-address system screech, you’ve heard a feedback loop in action. The microphone picks up a little noise, the amplifier makes it louder, sends it out through the speaker, whereupon it is picked up by the mike a...

• Here We Go Again

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 10:27 in terrorism, al qaeda, afghanistan, vietnam, the failed state

  Another American president is trying to find a middle ground between the rock of the right-wing hawks and the hard place of the left-wing pacifists. Another American president is trying to be a little bit at war by dribbling troops into a far place, ...

• Learn Your History. Rinse. Repeat.

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 09:20 in sustainable living, apocalypse when?, natural resource exploitation

  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  George Santayana The foreigners came from the sea, amazing us with their guns and ships and numbers. They only wanted one thing, a thing we did not value, and when we aske...

• Yes, We Have No Bananas

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 08:25 in food contamination, industrial agriculture, monoculture, losing ground, banana shortage

  Monoculture is a form of mass suicide practiced by groups of people who think they are smarter than Mother Nature. The Irish put their faith in the potato, and the potato famine that resulted nearly extinguished them. In vast reaches of the equatoria...

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andrew

This is an amazingly accurate, razor sharp blog.

Posted: October 31st, 2009 | Report This Comment

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