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The Strategic Importance of the World Food Supply by Leif Roderick Rosenberger; From Parameters, Spring 1997, pp. 84-105.: The place is Rome, Italy, between 13 and 17 November 1996. Thousands of policymakers, bureaucrats, and environmentalists from 196 countries have descended on this historic city for a World Food Summit; they are polarized between the pessimists (latter-day Malthusians) and the optimists, whether technologists or those dedicated to modifying the behavior of food producers and consumers. Each group believes itself to represent realism. Many of the attendees are alarmed about clear signs that the world is running out of food, characterized by images of people starving in Somalia in 1992. They're quick to tell you that the famine in Somalia is merely representative of the ongoing food crises in Africa and parts of South Asia. They remind you that as recently as 1983 and 1984 a million Ethiopians died in another terrible famine... [Link updated 4/19/11]

Analysis of the US-Mexican Border: A Strategic Literature Yet to Come by Russell W. Ramsey: The US national security community bases its policies and strategies on the legitimacy of sovereignty, the philosophical centerpiece of the nation-state since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. The national security planner and the strategist who would visualize the massive flow of illegal immigration and the related narcotrafficking problem at the US border with Mexico through the eyes of the contemporary strategic literature is in for a rude surprise. The US-Mexican border literature is not strategic in nature; it is little more than an inventory of problems... [Link updated 4/19/11]

Terrorists, WMD, and the US Army Reserve by CHARLES L. MERCIER, JR.; From Parameters, Autumn 1997, pp. 98-118.: Knowing that there are those who wish us significant harm and that they have both the ability and the will use weapons of mass destruction to cause that harm, we clearly have a problem. Weapons of mass destruction have been within the technological grasp of terrorist groups for some time; they were not employed until a Japanese religious cult crossed that invisible barrier in March 1995.[3] While the cult's target--the Tokyo subway system--was what a terrorist might call "appropriate," Tokyo was fortunate that the cult's agent was impure and dissemination techniques were primitive. Unfortunately, fanaticism is not synonymous with stupidity, so we can expect the next attack with a weapon of mass destruction to be considerably more deadly. [Link updated 4/19/11]

Survival Is Looking After No. 1 by Kurt Saxon (1976): Alarmists all around the country are promising disasters such as super inflation, famine, foreign invasion, the triumph of communism/fascism, nuclear war, etc. Unfortunately, they may be right, even though their timing is wrong; we hope. You have only to compare this year's food prices over last year's; this year's quality of life is going down and the difficulty of maintaining a decent living standard is a greater worry to most Americans. There are two main reasons for this which no political system can help. One is that the Age of Exploration and Development and the Industrial Revolution is over and the other is that the good crop weather, world-wide, is also over, maybe for centuries...

It's Not Who's Right, But Who's Left By John Williams: We seasoned survivalists have a saying, "It's not who's right but who's left." Survival has ALWAYS depended upon one's ability and capability to survive. It has nothing to do with who is right or wrong. And one's ability to survive is becoming more crucial every day...

"We Are Survivalists" [Author unknown] A fireman is a fireman, not because he believes everything will burn, but because he believes much can be saved. Doctors don't believe in death, they believe in life, and a survivalist is not a survivalist because he believes everything must be destroyed and everyone must die, he believes that life and freedom can be saved, if people of good will are prepared. A fireman does not start fires, a doctor does not make disease and a survivalist does not make disaster...

The Killer Caravans by Kurt Saxon (1979): When the collapse comes, whether from a total economic breakdown or nuclear war, surviving city dwellers will scatter like their cockroaches when they turn on their kitchen lights. Millions not killed by the war, the fires, the rioting and the street battles, will take to the countryside....

ROADBLOCKS by Kurt Saxon (1979) Following a nuclear war or total socio-economic collapse, surviving city populaces will panic. Every highway out of every sizeable city and town will be crowded with refugees. Most main highways will become clogged to the point of disuse with wrecked vehicles.

Keeping a Low Profile, by Massad Ayoob: Slogans, stickers, signs and T-shirts that show you to be a gun owner or to have strong feelings about guns and crime and violence and killing, can come back to haunt you in more ways than one. The display of such insignia on your car, in your home, or on your body can cause you a world of grief...

Warnings From The Past by Kurt Saxon (1981): The imminent collapse of world civilization is becoming apparent to more people as the economy grinds down and international frictions accelerate. Even so, most people still believe the overall decline is due to some kind of plot, political bungling or economic miscalculation...

'The end of the world' has already begun, UW scientists say In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun. [PDF link recovered 4/19/11]

SURVIVAL AND THE PARANOID by Kurt Saxon (1977) Paranoids can't accept our social decline as a result of climatic change, surplus population, reduced resources, mental defectives and other natural influences which have been knocking out civilizations throughout history. No, paranoids see a plot behind the whole thing...

Probability of Sea Level Rise - An EPA Report . Planning for sea level rise in response to changing climate depends on the probability that the sea will rise by a given magnitude. This report from the EPA develops probability-based projections that can be added to local tide-gauge trends to estimate future sea level at particular locations. EPA no longer updates EPA's Global Warming Site. [PDF link recovered 4/19/11] Please see EPA's Climate Change site for current information on climate change and global warming.

"Diary of the Planet" Really cool interactive map of the world uses clickable symbols to highlight locations of events around the globe. Click on a symbol to read a short article related to the event. Updated weekly and has archives of past weeks.

"Natural Hazards Center Database" CU-Boulder database for natural hazards. Articles on innumerable topics. Search forever, you won't be able to read it all – but read the instructions for use or you’ll only get frustrated (trust me, I did!)

THE COMING WARLORDS by Kurt Saxon (1978) When governments fail, or are too weak to control the outlying provinces, warlords arise and take over those regions where there is no order. Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe and England, men little better than bandit chieftains established their rule over populations too weak to protect themselves...

"The Global Change Master Directory" Want to read some really scary stuff? Search here

FRIENDS OR ALLIES: CHOICE FOR SURVIVAL by Kurt Saxon (1977) In the 1950's, several thousand people had nuclear fallout shelters built, usually in their back yards. At first they met only ridicule by those neighbors who considered themselves above such hysteria. In time, however, it occurred to those neighbors that something had changed in their relationship with the shelter builders. Often, those who had been friends for years came to despise each other...