Comments on: Apocalypse Later

By: Carter Ward

Carter Ward — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:50:30 +0000

hybrid cars are energy efficient compared to diesel or gas powered cars.”;`

By: Jacob Patel

Jacob Patel — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:50:37 +0000

i already upgraded my family car to Hybrid to help the environment.~-’

By: spencer

spencer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:37:50 +0000

Matt @5,

I think what you are saying is exactly what Joe is saying. We didn’t think, “CFC’s, these will put a hole in the ozone we shouldn’t use them,” we reacted to the fact that hole in the ozone was growing and put a stop to using CFCs.

Is that correct Joe @ 4?

By: dave

dave — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:27:25 +0000

To be an “apocalypse” does it have to come in the form of a monumental singular event or can it be spread over time?

What about a steady and irreversible decline over the next 100, 1000, 10,000 years?

By: Matt the Engineer

Matt the Engineer — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:44:09 +0000

[Joe]’s attitude is common, but I think it’s misguided. We’ve certainly preemptively attacked issues before, often with large financial impacts. Look at CFC’s. The hole in the ozone was growing, so we phased out CFC’s. Now the ozone hole is stable.

By: Joe G

Joe G — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:41 +0000

The American empire will fall due to the one thing in human nature that we can not change, we will deal with crisis when it comes along, not work towards preventing it. There are those among us who wave the flag and try to warn us of impending doom, but the majority is comfortable where they are and would rather not think of things, scenarios, crisis that are or may be on the horizon. Many of my own friends say that we are way to big and powerful to fall as many empires before us, but history has a funny way of repeating itself.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:54:23 +0000

If the economy collapses in the US, the coastal cities disappear due to rising sea levels, and we all have to live inland and live in squalor, my question to our species is will we still be popping out babies like crazy like the rest of the 3rd World?

Will you be writing articles on how we should live in our tents in a green manner while we’re popping out 5 babies a family?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:55:56 +0000

Apocalypse nothing. I’m not even convinced that this recession is all that bad.

By: Matt the Engineer

Matt the Engineer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:58:29 +0000

Don’t make me link to the fact that 61% of petroleum geologists predict peak oil within the next 10 years again. We’re really close to the first of many unsustainable practices coming to an end. Can we deal with this in stride? Maybe, but then we just had a major recession because we sold too many houses. Just wait until we hit real problems.