Wow! Hedges makes some valid points here, but I can't seem to stomach his abrasive doomsday approach of informing the public. Yes, I understand that our predecessors have done a valid job at screwing over generations to follow, but this article is lacking the inspiring angle that gives us any positive motivation to help ourselves, as consumers of the Earth's resources, to change. Convincing the world that we are all greedy consumers of resources that are doomed with "false hopes," does nothing more but leave readers feeling overwhelmed and angry at their grandfathers. Although, he does incorporate a certain bluntness that many environmental activists don't seem to voice in their writing. In other words, someone had to lay it all ... More »

Although extremely controversial, the idea of the end of society is a captivating concern ever present in the subconscious of everyone. The end of the world, could it be real? Something we see to be so infinite and vast may have a time limit and with the way we are treating our resources, we may be approaching that time limit in the near future. The currency of global warming adds to the newsworthiness of this article. As well as the noted and researched authors whom were quoted. I enjoyed the language this author used and was drawn in by the idea of the: "the modern capitalist myth that you can expand forever" and how he paralleled the white Euro/American domination to civilizations of the past who have rose and fallen.