http://insidehpc.com/2010/01/04/computer-science-is-where-the-jobs-are/

As a result we’re fast becoming a police state, our money is becoming worthless, and environmentally we’re in the beginning stages of what Wm. Catton describes as the next great die-off of humanity on this planet.
We are all being constrained by: the rampant use of finite resources of all kinds (among them being potable WATER and oil); steady non-diminishing pollution (see the Great Pacific Gyre, oil spills all over the place)causing dying coral and marine species, algae blooms and dead-zones, overfishing of the ocean and many other short-sighted or outright greedy policies by fishermen from all over the world; failure to change our ways when we could have in areas of farming, conservation and recycling; misuse and abuse of our environment rather than stewardship, and too many other human actions.

The earth has to adjust to these deleterious biological and chemical effects and has begun to do this an a consistent measurably increasing rate. No one has to make up “climate change”, the jellyfish knew it was real for a long while, while we blithely went along oblivious to scientists’ and others’ warnings (remember all the incidents of frog disappearance and mutation, bee colony collapse, butterfly population drop, migrating tree lines, long established wine-growing areas under stress, etc.?). The ice is melting.

Now the weather is becoming ever harder to predict with the accuracy we once had (based on out-dated climate MODELS), and is becoming more erratic, with droughts, floods, storms, and living conditions becoming stressed, not to mention our ability to grow FOOD for us all.

It’s gonna get ugly, soon, and it’s too late to avert it now.