Author Archives: Planet In Distress

“The Ocean Is Broken”

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You really should read this article.  It is about a yachtsman who recently sailed from Australia to Japan to the US – the same route he sailed ten years ago – and how he found a dead and astonishlingly polluted ocean where only ten years ago there had been a living one.  The article is […]

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“We Are Fundamentally Destabilizing Our Natural Systems”

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The headline of this post is part of a quote taken from Wolfgang Lucht, a co-author of a recent study released by the Potsdam Institute.  In one pithy, insightful quote, he summarized half of what I am trying to say on this blog.  Here is the relevent quote from Lucht as included in this Bloomberg […]

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Wars and Rumors of Wars: Syria

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Trying to dig into conflict in the Middle East (anywhere in the Middle East) is like peeling an endless onion – it is just layer after painful layer of a history of intrigue and treachery and international interventions and hatred, all of which is directly influencing current events.  A succession of American presidents have tried […]

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Water Wars – in the US and the Middle East

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I highly recommend that you read the two main articles cited in this post.  Both regard water, conflict, and societal impact on a potentially broad scale, and both come at it from very different but complimentary perspectives. The first of the articles is from the New York Times and details some of the impacts currently […]

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Ours is the First Generation to be Able to Chart and Graph the Fulfillment of Prophecy

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For some two thousand years, generation after generation of Christians have waited for the return of Christ.  These generations have faithfully studied the Scriptures, noted the way-marks outlined in prophecy, and watched for the return of Christ – just as He instructed (Mark 13:32-37). Many among these generations have lived in the expectation that they would see […]

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Tipping Point for Global Food Supply?

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Regular readers will know that I bang on quite a bit about food supply and food prices, and for good reason:  Increases in food prices rapidly bring down weak societies, which leads in turn to war (or internal conflicts), sickness, forced migration, etc.  Global food prices are our best single indicator of the relative peace, […]

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Updated Resource Depletion Graph and Timeline

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I am trying to add meaningful and appealing graphs and illustrations to my posts here (and to my seminars) but it is a struggle for me as I do not have natural graphic talent.  The effort is a process of trail, error, and migration toward improved designs.  I hope you will forgive me if I […]

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When Will All The Fish Be Gone?

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This is the third article in a series examining specific resource depletion and calculating – roughly – when the depletion of specific resources will result in societal conflict.   In the previous two blog posts we examined the timeline for the depletion of water (aquifers) and phosphorous rock.  This post looks at the depletion of […]

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When Will the Phosphate Rock and Potash Run Out?

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This post is the second in a series of articles dealing with resource constraints.  If you read these introductory paragraphs for the first article in the series (“When Will the Water Run Out?”), then skip past these italicized paragraphs.  While I covered resource constraints in my book, Planet In Distress, I did not try to place the depletion of various […]

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When Will the Water Run Out?

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This is the first in a series of articles dealing with resource constraints.  While I covered these issues in my book, Planet In Distress, I did not try to place the depletion of various resources on a timeline.  This I will attempt to do now, with the caveat that data on some issues and areas […]

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