civilization collapse

What we have done: We've exhausted every corner of the earth We are raising the earths temperature over the past 100 years and for at least a hundred more Estimates of 100,000 species extinct per year What has the price bought? 7 billion humans Space mission Origin of species and universe Atheism Internet brain memory Nuclear deterrent 20 more years to live - with dementia? Is it worth it?

if you have 5 minutes: #1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil The world consumes approximately 3 CMO annually from all sources. if you have another 5 minutes #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-J91SwP8w 300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds if you have 7 minutes #3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqDS9wGsxQ Who Killed Economic Growth? if you have 17 minutes #4 http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_gilding_the_earth_is_full.html Paul Gilding starts his TEDTalk with four words that say almost everything: “The Earth is full.” It’s a terrifying concept. Have we really strained, mined and otherwise depleted the planet’s resources to the point where social collapse is inevitable? Gilding believes we have, and he launches into a defense of that notion. if you have 1 hour #5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4KRWoubPEo Holocene Extinction - Sixth great Extinction if you have 4 hours: #6 http://www.econ.utah.edu/~mli/Economics%207004/Morrigan_2010_Energy_CC4.pdf...

Civs fail because they eat too much - more than they can sustainably produce It is possible we can keep increasing production But no other civ has Prepare for the worst but work towards the best - solarvores

http://www.amazon.ca/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocracy/dp/0307720454

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57448055-10391704/world-health-organization-warns-of-gonorrhea-strain-resistant-to-antibiotics/ world health organization says sexually transmitted disease is resistant to anti-biotics. hello population reduction. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57398949-10391704/who-antibiotic-overuse-so-prevalent-scraped-knee-could-be-deadly/ "We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units,"

The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/romneys-former-bain-partner-makes-a-case-for-inequality.html who knows more about the economy? bain's former new york manager that re portedly has made hundreds of millions or   nouriel roubini and other economists? for all that he is still scrooge - are there no work houses for the poor? as if there is no social contract.   The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the  true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. http://en.wikip...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)#Temple_of_Apollo Carved into the temple were three phrases: γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnōthi seautón = "know thyself") and μηδέν άγαν (mēdén ágan = "nothing in excess"), and Ἑγγύα πάρα δ'ἄτη (engýa pára d'atē = "make a pledge and mischief is nigh"). The first two I had heard - but not the third. I have been told to make goals - targets - quotas. These are pledges. I have been told that I need goals in order to achieve and succeed, because if I didn't have goals I wouldn't do what it takes. What it takes is doing what you don't want to do. A goal is necessary to do what you don't want to do. Like quitting smoking - or selling $250,000 a year worth of widgets.