[The barrage of stories breaking over the past two weeks confirming FTW's map have been dizzying to the point where it is difficult to keep up with all of them. Here FTW's Carolyn Baker takes us through a review of the most recent reports that confirm everything FTW has been saying for the past five years. We take no solace in saying "we told you so." Instead we only hope that our subscribers are planning for the inevitable right now with eyes wide open and delaying not one more second. If you have any lingering doubts about what is coming down the pipeline, your denial will not remain intact after reading this one. - MK] COOKING ON THE ROAD TO COLLAPSE: THE TERMINAL TRIANGLE RULES, By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.
© Copyright 2006, From The Wilderness Publications, www.fromthewilderness.com. All Rights Reserved. This story may NOT be posted on any Internet web site without express written permission. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. May be circulated, distributed or transmitted for non-profit purposes only. August 1st 2006, 1:23pm [PST] - This past week, amid the Middle East crisis which dominates mainstream media, From The Wilderness has posted an abundance of news stories on the unremitting, grinding heat that has killed stunning numbers of human beings around the world during the month of July, as well as stories related to resource depletion and dollar devaluation. Meanwhile, as FTW reported on July 27, it is now becoming clearer that both oil and water are enormous factors in the Middle East crisis as they are in the lethal repercussions of climate change worldwide. Concurrently, Im still receiving personal emails from die-hard opponents of Peak Oil who accuse me of being a handmaiden of the petroleum industry. FTW has long ago ceased arguing with those entrenched in obdurate denial of the Terminal Triangle--climate change, worldwide resource depletion, particularly Peak Oil, and global economic meltdown. We have chosen instead to provide our readers with the most current and well-researched evidence on the daunting realities that are reversing the achievements of the past five hundred years of human history. It is now painfully evident that we are experiencing a phenomenon unique in the history of the human race: the juxtaposition of climate distortion, resource depletion, and global economic catastrophe. As I continue to receive inquiries requesting indications of hope, I reply, as I did in an FTW article some months ago, that hope is merely an appendage of denial--a boulder around the neck of drowning, sentient beings, whereas enlivening options creates a variety of potential lifeboats for survival and sustainability. A recent, must-read article by Jan Lundberg succinctly summarizes such options for both individuals and communities. As I write these words, we are seeing the
convergence of all three sides of the Terminal Triangle playing out with
devastating consequences globally. All of this in the midst of resource wars,
ancient religious and ethnic hostilities, and a twenty-first century arms race
which threatens to vaporize the planet and its inhabitants.
Clearly, the last thing we would need at this point is massive conversion to ethanol as an alternative fuel for cars! In Zimbabwe All Africa reports that current power cuts might reduce the expected winter wheat yield as irrigation operations are disturbed, thereby affecting crop growth. Since Zimbabwe consumes about 400,000 tons of wheat annually, the deficit of 168,954 tons that they are likely to experience this year will be highly significant. In terms of the Terminal Triangle, one of the most
dramatic stories of the week California Wildfire Threatens High-Voltage Wires,
spotlighted the Lakin Fire of McCloud, California, where three transmission
lines which collectively transport 4,200 megawatts of electricity have been
threatened. Clearly, the raging fires, linked to global warming, are directly
jeopardizing the availability of energy. In another synchronization of climate
chaos and energy, the European heat wave, mentioned above, has forced nuclear
power plants to reduce or halt production, according to an Observer story on July 30. The storys writers ask: How
are they going to expand nuclear power when they are so vulnerable to such
things as global temperature? In a recent address to the Australian Senate Committee, Dr. Samsam Bakhtiari, Senior Advisor for the National Iranian Oil Company in Tehran, presented an update on world oil supply, announcing these daunting statistics:
In his 2004 article As The World Burns, Mike Ruppert refers to petroleum geologist, Richard Duncans, Olduvai Theory which states that the life-expectancy of industrial civilization, defined in terms of world energy use per capita is less than or equal to 100 years. Duncan described a cliff event in which energy consumption puts industrial civilization over the edge, and originally, he theorized that it would happen around 2012. It now appears that the cliff event has begun, as one of Duncans indicators of its arrival was rolling blackouts which would spread nationwide, then eventually worldwide, ultimately becoming permanent. Mike Rupperts assessment of this in the above-mentioned article warrants repeating:
Adding to last weeks numerous validations of the FTW map, Gabriel Kolkos Bankers Fear World Economic Meltdown emphasized the doubling of world prices for all commodities since 2003, especially oil and precious metals, alongside the dollars decline. Kolko refers to yet another economic warning by Morgan Stanleys Stephen Roach, that a major financial crisis is in the offing and that global efforts to forestall it are utterly inadequate. Thus, Kolko summarizes:
In Oil, Jihad, and Destiny, Ronald E. Cook analyzes the economic impact of oil depletion and concludes:
Cooking on the way to collapse is not only about sweltering, lethal heat waves resulting from global warming, but government-sanctioned, now-institutionalized book-cooking which essentially blesses the operations of the federal government and corporations as they devolve daily into criminal enterprises, as opposed to viable public or private entities. A study of Catherine Austin Fitts latest documentation on money missing from the federal government, which now comprises an entire page at her site, reveals nothing less than the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world, a financial coup d etat the proportions of which spell catastrophe for global, national, and individual economies. As the delineation of the Terminal Triangle reveals itself with increasing clarity--as sweltering, hungry, thirsty, debt-battered, unemployed, eventually homeless and bankrupt Americans with empty pension plans, frozen bank and 401K accounts, looted Social Security savings--who can no longer afford their suburban Mc Mansions, astronomical utility bills, credit cards, and gas-guzzling automobiles discover that the Rape Of Russia by U.S. financial systems was merely a warm-up exercise for the economic evisceration of the United States, the social fabric of America will unravel, and chaos will ensue. A story by this week by Mathew Maavak in the Korea Herald, entitled, Along With Peak Oil, Peak Grain, and Peak Water, The World Enters Crisis Overload, succinctly summarizes all of the above and concludes: Imagine a world when Peak Oil meets Peak Grain and Peak Water at a confluence called Peak Mayhem? And we have not even skimmed the surface of troubled waters ahead, spawned by the troubles we caused before. And so it is that we arrive again at the question: Will collapse look like Armageddon or slow burn? Will the Terminal Triangles fires linger unrelentingly, like the blistering heat of Californias San Joaquin Valley, scorching, wearing away, and hollowing out the livelihoods of earths inhabitants, or will the confluence of scenarios we have witnessed in the past month congeal in an indisputable, palpable cliff event that signals the end of the world as we have known it? The latter would perhaps be preferable if for no other reason that the longer the country on earth which consumes the largest quantity of hydrocarbon energy implacably refuses to acknowledge what is so and drastically alter its patterns of consumption, the more cataclysmic will be the collapse, and humankind will wistfully yearn for the good ole days of scorching heat, three-dollar gas, and just barely getting by financiallydire symptoms of a convergence of consequences that are about to dismantle Western civilization. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM
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