[imc-sheffield] [Imc-uk-process] PROPOSAL: New "Energy Crisis" topic

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Hi

On Thu 19-Jun-2008 at 12:59:46PM +0100, kriptick wrote:
> 
> Personally I'd prefer Resource depletion cos it's not
> just the last dregs of fuels that are being scrabbled
> over but also loads of minerals & particularly metal
> ores (shameless plug for my workshop on this at climate
> camp ;-) - some of which are thought to only have 13 yrs
> workable reserves left. Or maybe both ener crisis & res
> depl topics need creating? 

Yeah, both sounds good to me, also while we are at it what
about a Food topic -- Peak Oil might well be peak food,
also there is the massive water issue, perhaps these could
be combined?

  Food and Water
   
And another related crisis is extinctions -- between a
quarter and a third of all species on the planet have been
made extinct since 1970:

  http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/an-epidemic-of-extinctions-decimation-of-life-on-earth-829325.html

So do we need? 

  Mass Extinction

And while we are wrapping up the multi faceted crisis of
Empire what about recession / economic collapse?

  Economic Collapse

And perhaps to counter any "mega-doom Mad Max scenario
pessimisism" we also need some kind of positive
alternatives topic...?

Chris