Priorities Of The Culture We Live In

"This seemed to me to be pretty symbolic of the priorities of the culture we live in. Mass death of nonhuman life: 5 minutes. Arguments within the ranks of the governing party of the day about something or other: 10 minutes. It’s a nice little metaphor, and it makes me unspeakably angry.

In fact, I’ve been pretty angry all morning. Angry and despairing: I’ve been stomping around the house like a bear with a sore head. I feel a kind of rising inner rage which makes me want to tear something down, and I don’t know what to do with it. For me, and I’m sure for many other people, the bald and miserable facts in this report simply confirm what I’ve been seeing with my own eyes for years. I know from my own experience that there are far fewer butterflies and birds around than when I was a child, or even a younger man. I know there are fewer flowers growing by the streams and fewer fish in those streams. When I walk in the hills I hear fewer skylarks. This great dying is unfolding all around me: all around all of us."

Read the rest of the essay about being a footsoldier in the Empire you wish to dismantle on the Dark Mountain Project blog.

Pray for an Asteroid

Excellent doomer post from Dmitry Orlov. A perfect read for a Saturday afternoon, especially if your weekend plans are still hazy, now you know what to do: find a nearby coal-burning power plant, and shut it down.

The Laboratory of Apocalypse

The Unites States is a place to keep an eye on if you enjoy the postapocalypse genre, as sometimes it really looks like a laboratory of social-economic collapse. Given the number of firearms owned by their citizens, and their dependence on imported fossil fuels, one just wonders if they really want to prove the world that they can actually fulfill a Mad Max Scenario.You can just view the cascading malfunctions of the country like fall of empires ages ago, and conclude the consequencies for yourself and your area.

This time, we just take a look at health care. The subject itself is well known, I'm sure many readers of All Plants Bulletin heard the expressions "Medicare" and "Medicaid", as social security is one of the most talked about subjects concerning the performance of the Obama administration.

This time though, the article we are about to link is not about politics, it's just a quick view of the experience of the average American middleclass citizen. And it is scary.

To read the list of the 50 signs of doom for American healthcare, check out the Economic Collapse Blog guest post on Zero Hedge, here.