Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Mexico: A Nation-State Dissolves?
July 15th, 2007Via: The Oil Drum: The collapse of the Mexican Nation-State will have serious, negative impacts on global oil markets, on the US economy, and on xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in the US, not to mention its impacts inside Mexico. It might not happen in 2007—and it certainly won’t occur in one sudden “bang†that can […]
The Ants of Gaia
July 9th, 2007Joe doesn’t seem to acknowledge the kill off of the die off, but I’m not sure that it matters anymore. Via: Joe Bageant: The hearts of even our most avowedly thriving cities are just a dead, reduced to nothing more than designated spending zones, collections of bars and banks and overpriced eateries lodged at the […]
China Exporting Ecological Disaster to the World
July 8th, 2007Via: Spiegel: Can the environment withstand China’s growing economic might? As one of the planet’s worst polluters, Beijing’s ecological sins are creating problems on a global scale. Many countries are now feeling the consequences.
Garbage Bonds & Bonfires
July 6th, 2007This is an outstanding essay. I’ve included a few passages below, but these don’t do the piece justice. I highly suggest reading it in its entirety. Via: 321Gold: For years the homestead, the house property has been considered the ultimate inflation hedge asset. Sure, price inflation wrecked havoc in the USEconomy, but the nation of […]
Iranians Attack Gas Stations Amid Rationing
June 27th, 2007Via: USA Today: Angry Iranians attacked several gas stations in protest after the government suddenly began long-threatened fuel rationing, while many others rushed to fill their tanks. The Oil Ministry announced the start of rationing Tuesday night only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight. The sudden announcement sparked long lines at […]
Lowest Food Supplies in 50 or 100 Years: Global Food Crisis Emerging
June 16th, 2007Via: National Farmers Union Canada (PDF document): Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its first projections of world grain supply and demand for the coming crop year: 2007/08. USDA predicts supplies will plunge to a 53-day equivalent- their lowest level in the 47-year period for which data exists. “The USDA projects global […]
Passport Problems Trap Citizens in U.S.
June 13th, 2007I can’t imagine that anyone reading Cryptogon for any length of time wouldn’t have their passport situation sorted out, but just in case you don’t know what’s happening… Via: MSNBC: With so much fighting going on about people who want to get into the country, we didn’t realize how hard it is to get out. […]
Clean Energy and Turning What’s Left Into Trash
June 8th, 2007What if a genuinely viable clean power source became available to people everywhere? What would happen? My guess is that the pace of collapse would accelerate. The clean green energy would allow scenes like the one below to be repeated wherever there are raw materials waiting to be turned into trash. It would, in other […]
Los Angeles: Driest Ever
June 7th, 2007Throwing trash in toilets? Does anyone understand this? Are they trying to flush their empty Evian water bottles? Via: Reuters: Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on […]
The Power Crisis Mythology, the 40% Efficient Solar Cell and the Cost of the War in Iraq
June 5th, 2007Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, has developed a solar cell technology that has a conversion efficiency of 40.7%. They accomplished this with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The annual budget of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory: $210 million The cost of America’s war […]
