Mayans and the end of the world

• Half of the world’s population could face severe food shortages by the end of this century as rising temperatures shorten the growing season in the tropics and subtropics.

• NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent and severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms.

• A warmer world is producing a sicker world, health experts reported citing surges in Kenya, China and Europe of such diseases as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever.

• The drought in Texas in 2011 and the heat wave in Russia in 2010 are among weather extremes that “certainly would not have occurred” without global warming, according a U.S. government climate scientist.

• A study finds two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic.

The link below was posted on the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association and pretty much sums up the catastrophist point of view.

http://www.nswnma.asn.au/news/33356.html

The choice proffered by the hardliners, is that we dismantle the capitalist means of production in favour of more agrarian pursuits, or be trampled underfoot by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalpyse.

Over the last 20 years there has been a shift in radical thinking. The hardliners in the environment movement realised the era of revolutions was over and the era of catastrophes had begun.

They took Francis Fukuyama’s book, The End of History (1992) to literally mean the end of history rather than the end of a dialectical tussle between capitalism and communism. With the communists vanquished. The idea of progress lay dormant.

In what must still be one of the strangest pairings in modern ideological history, the now bored far left put down their highly abstruse books by French post modernist writers and joined forces with the far left of the environment movement. Their mission? To save the world. The enemy? Capitalism.

Their ‘meta’ thinking – of rolling psychology, systems thinking, sociology, biology, climate analysis, Chaos theory and Marxist economics in to one discipline to explain everything - is an embarrassing nonsense.