http://www.metafilter.com/3318/Were-overdue-for-a-big-disaster/ Comments on MetaFilter post We're overdue for a big disaster. en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/3318/Were-overdue-for-a-big-disaster <a href="http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4064231,00.html">We're overdue for a big disaster.</a> "Two years without a harvest? It would probably bust civilisation. People would survive all right. It really would cut us back, and that is the sort of thing nobody really prepares for. It's not some ecological poison or GM foods or nuclear that is going to get us, it is going to be some perfectly ordinary natural event." Almost enough to make me stock canned goods again. post:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3318 Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:15:38 -0800 norm JamesLovelock Gaia environment ecology disaster food farming Guardian