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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.
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The Quote of the Age
“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!
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
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
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.
“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
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...


This is an amazingly accurate, razor sharp blog.
Posted: October 31st, 2009 | Report This Comment