How to Survive the Coming Century

[Rachael]

deffinately mina....

as for global warming... My jury is out... considering we arent at the globes average temperature, its deffiantely happening... an meant to be.... but the rate is my point of interest.

[Alyssa M.]

Okay. That's my understanding as well.

[lisagurl]

http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0143036556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235841152&sr=1-1

[Rachael]

There is a HUGE market atm for drama... Climate collapse is the new Global nuclear war We need something hanging over us to make us worry to feel safe.....

[Alyssa M.]

Oh, not even close in my opinion. Nuclear war was far scarier and far more likely to really end civilization -- that is, it very easily could have if it had started, and very nearly started.

But yes, obsessing over the coming end is a perpetual human trait.

[mina.magpie]

deffinately mina...

Hehe. I can't LIVE without the drama! 

I agree, it IS next to impossible to know what the world will look like even 20 or 50 years from now, but we are able to project things AS THEY STAND NOW ahead in time. Who knows, tomorrow we suddenly develop a revolutionary carbon sequestration method that's cheap, safe and easy, and all these things become so much BS.

In the meantime though Southern Africa and Australia are drying out very quickly, and while you guys in the North are still okay, we already routinely run out of water, have crops, animals and people dying of heat, and have Malaria and other diseases inexorably marching South. Climate Change is already a stark reality for us, as it is for many others on this planet. And I just think it's rather short-sighted not to make people aware of what is happening and what could happen if we don't change the way we do things.

Mina.

[Rachael]

We can never change the  climate... Its MEANT to change... We are still recovering globally from the hibernian ice age... 10,000 years ago. Its gonna get warmer... 'global warming' or not. Want to not be so hot? move.