Not only are we facing peak oil, but peak banana.(Hat tip to Joan at http://joanium.blogspot.com for the depressing news ( Read more... )

http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/20021108/default.htmRead more... )

Sorry for linking yet another depressing article, but this just boggles me.
Santa Barbara sets up gated parking lots for middle-class homeless people to sleep in their cars

ETA: Also,
The North Pole just became an island

Peak oil and climate change. We live in interesting times.