We finally must create a planet - wide human family that joins together to fight against the environmental and social woes that otherwise will cause the first ever global collapse of a civilization. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
If you can't get a good start toward real solutions, then global collapse in the not - so - distant future seems nearly inevitable. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
However to me it seems quite clear that ecologists and biologists such as E.O. Wilson are telling us that we are already in deep ecological overshoot and almost all of our critical life support systems are in the throes of a massive global collapse as we speak. (realclimate.org)