Ignored Warnings
corona, climate, peak everything
2019 - corona
2020 - Dr. Li Wenhuang
many exercises before - Gates just before, but many others
Pandemic Playbook
CDC
Dark Winter
Anthrax attacks - stimulated response of more biodefense preparation
The Coming Plague
Michael Osterholm
SARS, MERS, Ebola 2014 and newer in Congo
HIV
antibiotic resistance
Smallpox
Hollywood - Contagion, The Omega Man, zombie movies (in range of accuracy)
climate
1988 - most famous
1978 - basic call
earlier - greenhouse effect known since 1800s
oil companies knew
but it would wreck the growth based economy - similar to the tension between quarantine and economy with coronavirus
1962 - Silent Spring
1972 - limits to growth
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and many more - slow raising of radioactive backgound
we will always have ten years
1990 UNEP
1992 - UCS scientists
2006 Gore
Greenpeace
IPCC - 12 years
peak vmt - 1973, 1979, 2000s, fracking peak, corona crash
peak electricity - 2007, 2019, corona crash
peak airplanes - 9/11, 2007, corona crash
peak oil consumption
peak
Hubbert was right
Pennsylvania
OPEC quota war
offshore
polar
global conventional plateau
unconventional - tar sands and fracking
natural gas
coal
peak ore - metals, rare earths, lithium, sand, phosphorus
peak renewable resources - soil, fish, forests, water
corona crash
solar budget for a steady state society
exponential growth based money