civilization collapse

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/08/15/ocean-dead-zones-growing/ In a paper published today in Science , Robert Diaz, a biological oceanographer at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and Rutger Rosenberg, a marine ecologist at Sweden’s Göteborg University, identified more than 400 dead zones worldwide , affecting an area of more than 95,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of Oregon. The number and size of these dead zones are far greater than previously estimated.

http://www.alternet.org/water/76056/ Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday: "The original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is almost like a plastic soup. It is endless for an area that is maybe twice the size as continental United States." ... According to the UN Environment Programme, plastic debris causes the deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals. Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake them for food.

Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop By Brigid Schulte Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 30, 2008; Page A01 "I'm used to seeing so many acorns around and out in the field, it's something I just didn't believe," he said. "But this is not just not a good year for oaks. It's a zero year. There's zero production. I've never seen anything like this before."

disaster is the result of exponential population growth which causes 1. expenses grow to exceed expenses 2. populations grow to exceed ecosystems 3. human societies concentrate power in fewer hands 4. global warming is a result of excess population 5. war is a result of excess population 6. civilization collapse is a result of excess population 7. pollution is a result of excess population so why is there is excess population? so that after the coming collapse there will be enough individuals to carry on the species