Crash Course – 18 – Environmental Data
In Crash Course Chapter 18: The Environment, Chris Martenson explains how multiple essential resources are being depleted at ever faster rates. Our money system requires continual economic growth, but energy depletion will run headlong into dwindling resource returns to limit future growth options. Overpopulation will increase competition and demand for fossil fuel energy sources such as crude oil and coal, as well as for natural gas and sources of alternative energy.
In this chapter, Peak Coal, Peak Uranium, and copper extraction are explored as illustrations challenging long-held assumptions about the inevitable certainty of continued global economic expansion. This chapter makes it easy to understand why careful management of our natural resources will be necessary for our economic and environmental future.
Crash Course – 19 – Future Shock
You are at the part of the Crash Course where everything you learned comes together into a single chapter. Chapter 19 contains a comprehensive view of how all of our problems are actually interrelated and need to be viewed as such or solutions will continue to elude us.
We will review the key trends, which appear to be converging on a very narrow window of the future. Here is a two-second recap of the key issues. If you have watched all of the videos until this point, you will undoubtedly see how they are connected:
Money, credit, growth. Exponential growth. Debt, future, history. Failure to save. Assets, housing, bubble, financial panic. Demographics, wealth, boomers, falling values. Fuzzy numbers. Energy, oil, growth. Peak Oil. Environment, resources, exploitation, change.
This chapter will connect the dots and beckon us toward the future.
Crash Course – 20 – What Should I Do?
This chapter is the final integration of all the prior chapters and attempts to provide clarity around the question of, “What should I do?” Let me rephrase that. What should WE do? The changes that are potentially coming are not solvable alone.
Chapter 20 is not going to be a simple list of things to do. Instead, it will reflect my goal of each person assuming responsibility for their own actions.
Chapter 20 is going to provide a framework for action. This is a way of structuring all the myriad things you COULD do, into the prioritized list of things you WILL do. Consider it your personal risk-mitigation plan.
Our individual challenge is to accept the possibility that the future may be quite a departure from the present.
The other parts of The Crash Course can be accessed following the links below:
Crash Course part 5, Environmental data: The Shape Of Things To Come, or are we there already? Future Shock. What should I do?
Crash Course Bonus Audio: An Interview with Chris Martenson.
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