Missile debris and craters in Saudi Arabia.

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Whether or not there is an outright global recession in 2016, it's definitely starting to look a lot like not Christmas around the world. After a period of inactivity, more and more people began posting and commenting over in the_recession, so we've formally restarted the group. I know a lot of members here who were active and we are a sister community. Please ( Read more... )

Warning: Bad Headline.
NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us [Policy Mic]
A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies' by University of Maryland researchers Safa Motesharrei and Eugenia ( Read more... )

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a sign posted on the road reads:
there is no bread
no flour
no milk
no paper
no safety
no butter

DO NOT ENTER

when insanity becomes normal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmvAdRntWH8

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? [The Guardian]A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution ( Read more... )

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance [Films for Action]

1. Student-Loan Debt.
   
2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.
   
3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.
   
4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
   
5. Shaming Young People Who Take Education-But Not Their Schooling-Seriously.
   
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Some of these are a couple of years old, but are still relevant.

A Student Writes….Global Extinction Within One Lifetime? [The Ecologist]Malcolm Light; inventor, retired professor and the name behind this report, believes he has accurately calculated methane gas warming potentials. He says: “This process of methane release will accelerate ( Read more... )

US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis [The Guardian]Lewis also referred to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data showing that although global crude oil exports increased "year on year from 2001 to 2005", they "peaked in 2005 and have been trending down since 2009." Lewis attributed this trend to rapidly rising ( Read more... )

Dramatic decline in industrial agriculture could herald 'peak food' [The Guardian]

Original Source: Distinguishing between yield advances and yield plateaus in historical crop production trends [Nature]To summarize, we found widespread deceleration in the relative rate of increase of average yields of the major cereal crops during the 1990-2010 ( Read more... )

Okra-homa: As the climate warms, Midwestern farmers plant southern crops [Al Jazeera]Agriculture specialists say two things are happening: higher temperatures and a lower water table. The summer of 2012 was the third-hottest summer on record for the U.S., according to the National Climatic Data Center, with record-breaking heat waves continuing in ( Read more... )