Wine and Malthusian Catastrophe
I came across this excellent piece of (long but beautifully explained) article explaining how Wine making is essentially due to a Malthusian Catastrophe of the Yeast population.
The article starts off with explaining the Malthusian Catastrophe by citing examples of how living things tend to overpopulate in the absence of population control and ( Read more... )
In short, the future, does not need a youtube or a google.com. The shift will be from rewarding consumers to producers.
By 'fall' I mean, fall of this civilization - not the fall of the species. I'm damn confident we rock at adapting without being helplessly dependent on random mutations to take us forward. However, we still aren't in a position to directly use abundant sources of energy such as the sun or wind for all our needs. We have been harvesting sequestered energy (btw, this link is a must read article if you are an evolution enthusiast) that has been accumulated over billions of years right here on this planet.
A must read is the Hirsch Report that says, to this effect: to transition to a new energy source without impacting the economy, we gotta do it 20 years in advance of oil peaking production. 10 years will have significant impact to economy and post-peak-production, severe consequences.
If we fail to do this (since oil seems to have peaked productivity already - and given most of what is left is the 'difficult to get' oil) it doesn't seem very unlikely that the sudden rise in prices due to sudden realization of our dependence on oil can Shock the markets.
There is this guy called Dmitry Orlov on energybulletin who has presented his analyses. Here are two good reads (each needs about 20 minutes of your time):
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