The risk of losing wealth in weather-related disasters is increasing faster than that wealth is being created. [...]
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Security - storiesBy David Stookey, on July 28th, 2011
 Has Japan’s disaster made your family more concerned about living near a nuclear reactor? Do you know where the nearest nuclear sites are? [...] If America isn’t going to fight climate change, the least Americans can do is to change our grandchildren’s habits and expectations. [...] A reminder of how threatened our lives are by a power outage. [...] Most of us don’t realize how shaky most predictions are – and how useful they can still be. [...] Population growth has been pulling the rug from under per-capital improvements. Maybe that is about to stop. [...] Is a giant international insurance company an objective arbiter of climate change information? [...] China’s reduction of exports of rare earth metals could be the first of other shortages that affect consumer goods, jobs, and security. [...] While not fine-tuned to your family’s plans and concerns, city sustainability rankings are a good place to start to find and evaluate places you might choose to live. [...] Those benefits touted by the science and engineering community – if it isn’t an outright hoax, at least they are grabbing for government grants [...] This fifty-year-old Asimov parable might be talking about the energy-dependent world of today. [...] Pressures created by Peak Oil over the next 10 years may result in less democratic forms of government. [...] What would we learn if punters could bet on global warming? They can. [...] In the medium term, German planners say, every market-oriented national economy would collapse. [...] The US military confirms the “ominous” likelihood of “a severe energy crunch.” [...] Are there exaggerations, faulty logic, self-serving bias in predictions of environmental and financial troubles ahead? [...] |
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