If you have to pose the question in today's title, then you have also gone a long way toward answering it. When I say "the world" I am referring to the global economy in the short-term (within 1 year). I don't doubt "the world" is falling apart in the long-term, but that will takes years (oil price shocks) or decades (dead oceans) to unfold.

While lying awake late at night worrying about what kind of world my children will inherit, I find it helpful to come up with schemas for the most obvious and inevitable of the large societal problems.  It makes them seem slightly more manageable to place them in order of importance, or time.

Oil prices fell below $70/barrel this week before recovering slightly.

A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including
-Prices and production
-Deepwater Horizon
-Iranian nuclear fuel

We were recently reminded yet again that regarding the Earth's biodiversity crisis, we need to get used to failure.

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-China, not U.S., will be tar sands’ market
-Tar Sands in Your Tank - report by Greenpeace UK
-Investors reject Royal Dutch Shell oil sands review

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Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history.  Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of Tough Oil, a time of ever i

Oilwatch Monthly for May 2010

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What to do? You're in an organization or process you see isn't working, but you suspect or know that people involved are assuming that change is impossible. Not an abstract question by any measure. Like me, you may frequently find yourself there.

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Laura S. Scott has surveyed and interviewed more than 170 people for her Childless by Choice Project.

-Growing problem needs radical ideas
-Grasshoppers Garden: What To Read
-Use of local food boosts hospital funds
-Derbyshire village to develop own food label

Is human activity altering the planet on a scale comparable to major geological events of the past? Scientists are now considering whether to officially designate a new geological epoch to reflect the changes that homo sapiens have wrought: the Anthropocene.

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Like the Indo-Aryan God Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, marine ecologist Jeremy Jackson is here to turn your comfortable, complacent Mental World upside-down. He's able to do that because we are destroying the Physical World—in this case, the Earth's Oceans.

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A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-the Deepwater horizon
-Venezuela
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
-Energy stat of the week

-Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
-Nature loss 'to damage economies'
-US climate bill or not, the world is on track