If we don’t halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity and will leave a ravaged world. - Nobel Laureate Henry W. Kendall What's Happening Greetings and welcome to my collapsology .us blog. This blog will help you to understand a little bit about what I'm trying to do here and how it might help you, your family, business and your community. The vast majority of this blog (which may take me a while to get to) is going to be a curated compendium of existing knowledge, mostly information from websites, YouTube and other blogs that express things far more completely and eloquently than I have the time or the patience to undertake myself. So there will be information presented about where we are as a civilization, what's happening and more importantly what you can do at the local level to support your community and your family as things continue to collapse at an accelerated rate. As you will lea...
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." ~ Orson Welles WHAT'S HAPPENING? We take for granted the conditions that make the workings of everyday life possible – from clean water to the food in our supermarkets, and from healthcare to the ability of our economy and government to function. The increasing complexity, interdependence and global integration of systems that support the operation of modern society have also increased our vulnerability to large-scale failure. Meanwhile, there is an array of threats that could cause such a failure now. The risk will continue to grow as resource, environmental and socioeconomic stresses accumulate and interact. The likelihood of systemic failure – from localized and reversible, to global and irreversible – is growing, and the impacts would be catastrophic. The physical growth of our societies will end in a near future where we reach peaks of almost all our physical resources...