Extreme Energy and Planetary Decline

TOMDISPATCH — The very definition of success—more middle-class consumers, more car owners, more shoppers, which means more energy used, more fossil fuels burned, more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—is also, as it never would have been before, the definition of failure. The greater the “success,” the more intense the droughts, the stronger the …

[source: http://ecowatch.com/2013/extreme-energy-and-planetary-decline/]