He points me to his tremendous collection of reviews of books on climate change, disease, environmental degradation, peak oil, and water scarcity. I see five major overlapping threats on the immediate horizon, he continues. They are all related: the collapse of complex societies, the acceleration of the Earths demise with changes that used to take 10,000 years now taking three or less, predatory or shock capitalism and financial crime out of the City of London and Wall Street, and political corruption at scale, to include the west supporting 42 of 44 dictators. We are close to multiple mass catastrophes.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:51:34 +0000