civilization collapse

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5576 "Is peak oil real? The BP Statistical Review of World Energy provides the data needed to answer this question. Using the 2009 edition, I have compiled a list of all oil producing countries and regions in the world, along with the production status of each, ordered by year of peak production. BP groups minor producers into categories like "Other Africa", and "Other Middle East", and that notation is used here. All production numbers are quoted in thousands of barrels/day."

Where you want to be? Friends of mind - peak oil - by net. The queen died, the harvest failed. Where did fortune go? The giants, slain and plundered, bones picked clean. The queen ran away with the gold. The king ashamed, tells of her death. The people starve and fight.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/could-air-pollution-be-undermining-our-intelligence/article1229627/ In the first study of its kind, U.S. researchers have found a link between pregnant women being exposed to air pollution and lower IQs of their children. "This is a warning bell," said the lead author of the study, Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health in New York. ... At the age of 5, the children were given intelligence quotient tests. The study showed that the children of mothers exposed to the highest level of PAHs had IQ scores that were between 4.3 and 4.6 points lower than kids whose moms had the least pollution exposure.