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FDR actually used that line, "All we have to fear is fear it's self" in 1932 or 33 during the depth of the depression.

A large methane burp from the warming environment might very well cause a "quick crash" that would remove both us and pretty much all of the complex life forms on the planet .. and that could happen e ...

Gori has apparently just fallen to Russian forces and the U.S state department states they have evacuated 170 U.S. people from Georgia ... wonder how many were military advisors?

Just some thoughts from someone who never used student loans of any type (my own professional degree was earned courtesy of the U.S. Army while serving in the army where the only payment I had to make ...

The DOW has a relatively long history. In 1929 it hit an all time high of 381 (since inception at that time) before falling to 41 a couple of years later. It was a mere thirty years later (and a big w ...

Large numbers of people now depend on existence and delivery of various types of drugs and medical services. In my own case I must have thyroid replacement drugs (thyroid cancer required thyroid remov ...

ColossalContrarian wrote >>Great observation! The distance might be kinda large but even bike and horse mounted patrols could help in that aspect.<<

I live in a small college town on th ...

I am 56 years old, well off, and healthy. I do not expect to make 65 and I would not be surprised to see earth's population down from the 7 billion or so it is at now by 30=50% before I die. I am very ...

When I look at our civilization (first world/industrialized) it seems to me that we have become hyper-specialized and I truly doubt that the end of the oil age will happen with only a few thousands/mi ...

Now if just 1/2 the world's population could pull a barrel of light sweet out of theyre arse's once a week or so, we would'nt have this finite resource problem.
My wife claims I pass at least that mu ...

How come they did not manage to win a Darwin award?? Maybe they could be put in for an honorary one as they are still alive (at least for now).

I have, out in my planting shed, an approved gas can ...

Here on the central coast of California I watch a corner Shell station near my house that I have used as my own gas watch now for over five years. Yesterday a gallon of regular unleaded was $4.01 and ...

You'd probably love pictures of Chernobyl. As long as the US doesn't end up looking like that, I will be OK.

I tend to agree with oilfinder though. Not every suburb will be abandoned, no doubt s ...

MattSavinar writes >>>Even the idea that both a descent into total destitution and a dieoff existing at the same time as an ascent into "greater than human intelligence" is structurally simil ...

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A science fiction story you may enjoy that discusses such issues is Smile On The Void by Stuart Gordan written back in the early eighties. It has an evolutionary and univ ...