The Iceberg

Peak Oil + Climate Change + Population Overshoot

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As with any iceberg, the collision we're about to experience looks different from different perspectives and there is less information (on any of these perspectives) in plain view than all that can be found just beneath the surface.

Some experts warn us about Peak Oil. The Union of Concerned Scientists has warned us -- twice, now -- about Global Climate Change and the effects of environmental degradation. Still others warn about global population growth versus earth's "carrying capacity" of food and especially water. All pose crises of staggering proportions. From whichever side one views the "iceberg" towards which our Titanic culture has set its course, all these separate crises are combined in an inter-related whole which we are neither built to withstand nor presently equipped to survive.

It’s too late to change course. Any part of the iceberg is sufficient to sink this ship we call “Western Civilization.” It’s not a matter of “if”, it’s now only a matter of “when.” It’s time we all started building lifeboats!