Next Mass Extinction an Eyeblink Away (The Age)

Mar. 3, 2011 (The Age) -- Life on Earth is hurtling towards extinction levels comparable to those following the dinosaur-erasing asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, propelled forward by human ac ...

Paradox: Linchpin Of The Long Emergency (Carolyn Baker)

Feb. 13, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- When people ask me, “Will the Long Emergency happen quickly or slowly?” I answer, “Yes.” When they ask, “Will it be like rolling down a bumpy hill or falling off a ...

Systemic global crisis -- 2011: The ruthless year. At the crossroads of three roads of global chaos (LEAP/E2020)

Public announcement GEAB N°51 Jan. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- This GEAB issue marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin. In January 2006, on the occasion ...

Driving Straight Into Catastrophe (Julio Godoy)

According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions. "The weather extremes that we cannot predict, such as the floods in Pakist ...

BOOKS: Introduction To Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.

We are here ... to love as broadly and as deeply as we possibly can -- knowing that we cannot do this without the support of the entire community of Life. Our purpose is to consciously further evolut ...

Bees in Freefall as Study Shows Sharp US Decline (Alok Jha)

Jan. 4, 2011 (Guardian/UK) -- The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96 percent in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census o ...

2011: Prospects for Humanity? (Francis A. Boyle)

Dec. 28, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- During the 1950s I grew up in a family who rooted for the success of African Americans in their just struggle for civil rights and full legal equality. T ...

The Collapse Of Human Civilization As We Know It -- Scenarios And Potential Solutions (Dale Tavris)

Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Dec. 1, 2010 -- Human civilization as we know it will come to an end in the foreseeable future. We don’t know exactly when or how. It may be soon. It ...

Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change (Brendan Smith)

Nov. 23, 2010 (Common Dreams) -- I am not an environmentalist. But all I think about these days is the climate crisis. I admit I have arrived late to the party. Only recently have I begun to realize ...

Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization (Tariel Mórrígan)

Global Climate Change, Human Security & Democracy -- Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies University of California, Santa Barbara -- October 2010 Nov. 21, 2010 -- This is the final chapt ...

Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)

Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...