Irradiated Genes

"... This threat is different in kind from other environmental problems because radioactivity directly disrupts or destroys the ability of genes to accurately replicate. This is not repairable. We menace everything, not just ourselves...."

 http://guymcpherson.com/2012/05/fukushima-denial-and-the-ethics-of-extinction/

Our future’s going to be terrible,

Extinction means life is unbearable;

Just check it out, dude:

Life on earth is now screwed—

The damage we’ve done’s not repairable.


Radiation is bad for our genes,
It busts them to small smithereens;
There are no vaccines,
So our prepping routines
Are just band aids, with bullets and beans.

A Little Advice for an Aging Empire in Slow Collapse

“...Well, that’s my advice, though I know you probably won’t listen....”

http://conflicteddoomer.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/a-little-advice-for-an-aging-empire-in-slow-collapse/

An empire in its last phase

Or a man at the end of his days:

Since their patterns are set,

We ought not to bet

That we’ll see them improving their ways.

Satellite System ‘Is At Risk Of Collapse’

“America’s ability to monitor the environment is rapidly diminishing. And if we don’t properly fund our satellite capabilities, the country could lose three quarters of its Earth observation systems by 2020.”
http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/05/us-environmental-satellite-system-is-at.html

We're already wearing light clothes

While watching the world decompose;

We can see it all right,

Don’t need a satellite

To know which way the wind blows.

Alliances

To prep for our coming rough landing,

We use temporary group banding:

At first between nations,

Then smaller locations,

Until it's the last man standing.

Accepting Extinction

Like all animals, we had to strive,

And intelligence helped us to thrive;

Now we’ve played our short part:

It’s true, we were smart,

But not smart enough to survive.

We learned a lot during our climb,

Since first we crawled out of the slime;

Now it seems, reader friend,

That accepting our end

Is the main lesson for our time.

Near-term extinction is locked in

"...Near-term extinction is locked in because of Fukushima (times 400 and change) and the climate-change result of exponential methane release in the Arctic. Both paths of horror indicate our species has a few decades at most....but I'm trying to maintain my trademark optimism...."
http://guymcpherson.com/2012/05/arts-and-minds/

It's nicer to be optimistic,

But, although it might seem too simplistic, 

It appears our world view

Will really come true, 

So we might as well be realistic. 

Uh Oh

MIT computer simulation predicts total global economic collapse in less than 20 years

http://www.naturalnews.com/035700_MIT_economic_collapse_simulation.html

We’ve had fun thrashing out a doom view,

And what someday we might have to do;

We’ve shared what we knew

About what might ensue—

But what if this stuff’s really true?