civilization collapse

how can civilisation collapse? that implies it had risen. where are the signs of rising? - iraq invasion? - exxon valdez crash? - enron? - bernie madoff? - goldman sachs? - monsanto? - haliburton / kbr? - nagasaki / hiroshima? - vietnam / napalm?

Agweek - publishes a cover story about stem rust - Ug99 and the race to find a cure.

A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop - Los Angeles Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/14/science/sci-wheat-rust14 Wikipedia entry on Stem Rust: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_rust

the center can not hold things fall apart i have everything i want i have nothing outside all is well inside self respect is not home what do you expect from others? it all starts at home

a new view of where i am - the world is infinite -- endless possibility - the world is threatened -- overwhelming disaster - the roots of that disaster --get used to the bell curve - it's an illusion -- the world is infinite

growth. i knew the word but didn't know what it meant. i was grown. done. mature. when i thought of movies, stories i wanted to tell - i could not manage character development. it was alien. instead there was just being - just events - just existence. but - somewhere somewhy somehow something is different. and. i. guess. love. lead. me. to. it. (i am more comfortable with the periods.) the conclusion is i haven't been able to acknowledge my father's abandonment (i was 8 when my parents divorced) and identify myself as a worthwhile person. so - i have broken lots (sigh! - no wonder i love Elizabeth Bishop's One Art ) of good things along the way to preserve this broken thing. but finally i am not abraham . i have sacrificed many other lives - and myself - but i can't kill my children . my love for them - meaning i want to manufacture the best possible gene delivery systems - has lead me to open doors i haven't wanted to open for 30 years. my life. tainter's w...

third industrial revolution around the corner? after reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression: "The Long Depression was a depression that affected much of the world and was contemporary with the Second Industrial Revolution." it made me use my magical thinking (http://warsocialism.com/e1.html) to imagine that if we are having a depression now - surely another industrial revolution will follow. what could it be? - stem cell research - renewable energy sources - nanotech and what about the unintended consequences of these? the 2nd industrial revolution did nothing to disprove malthus' dismal science - how could the 3rd industrial revolution be different? might not the third industrial revolution be the disintermediating power of the internet? the internet gives me access to the productive capacity of the worlds factories and employees.