Showing posts with label civilizational collapse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civilizational collapse. Show all posts

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Report: Prepare for the Climatic Collapse of Civilization — Andrey Areshev

Two authoritative Australian experts, backed up by a retired admiral of the Royal Australian Navy, recently issued a dire report that warns of an impending collapse of civilization from human-caused climate change. The report, titled “Existential climate-related security risk:
A scenario approach,” is not the product of alarmists, but of two authors with expertise in their professional areas. Only one of the authors is an environmental expert. He is David Spratt, a Research Director at the Australian National Center for Climate Restoration in Melbourne. The other, Ian Dunlop. Is an unlikely harbinger of environmental doom.
Dunlop comes out of the executive ranks of the coal, oil, and gas industries – the usual opponents of climate science. Dunlop is a member of the Club of Rome and the former chairman of the Australian Coal Association, not places where one would normally discover climate change proponents....
Civilizational collapse? Hey, we are too busy with WWIII for that.

Strategic Culture Foundation
Report: Prepare for the Climatic Collapse of Civilization
Wayne Madsen

See also

Trump Thinks US Oil Is His Strength When It’s His Achilles’ Heel
Tom Luongo

Sunday, February 24, 2019

David Roberts — This is an emergency, damn it


Must-read.

The GND proposal that is on the table doesn't scratch the surface of what needs to be done. Global resources must be reconfigured and deployed internationally to meet this emergent challenge. The scope and scale of a design solution is mind-boggling. Tweaking around the edges is simply a foolish delay.

The alternative is massive culling.

VOX
This is an emergency, damn it
David Roberts

See also at VOX

It is absolutely time to panic about climate change
Sean Illing

See also

World in Transition: Climate Change as a Security Risk - WBGU (2007)
Members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) 

Foreign Policy (9 Jan 2018)
The Only Force That Can Beat Climate Change Is the U.S. Army
Anatol Lieven



Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Evan Osnos — Doomsday Prep For The Super-Rich

Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.
This is like the captain being the first to abandon ship.

The New Yorker
Doomsday Prep For The Super-Rich
Evan Osnos