declinism

I. Can’t. Wait.

Today’s Daily from Statcan contained this gem, under new releases: In short: Cancer rates are rising because things are getting...

In which David Suzuki wonders whether the world today is better than it was in 1936. li nk

Apparently the latest thing in low-impact living is getting rid of your fridge. The NYTimes naturally has the details, though the...

In last week’s New Yorker, Ben McGrath writes about his t ravels amongst the dystopians , aka declinists . You know the types --...

This story was briefed on page A14 of the WSJ yesterday. I didn’t see it anywhere else.

Today’s WSJ front-page-quirky-story is about Russian academic Igor Panarin, who has made a bit of a name for himself predicting...

Metal prices fall further than during Great Depression The price of key industrial metals has fallen further over the last four...

The Post today reprints Rebecca Onion’s great piece on James Howard Kunstler & co., originally published in Slate: I would write...