Just a little something for 2010. By Roland Reiner Tiangco.

Typhoon Morakot has so far claimed around 600 people in Taiwan, with figures up to 10,000 are missing, may feared to be dead. We are living during some of the strangest times in history, where we have some of the wildest environmental catastrophes man has seen, however we also have technological advancements that this world has achieved. We can go to the moon, we can do brain surgeries from another continent, we have nano technology that have infinite possibilities. We have the most amazing special effects tv have ever witnessed, 24hours of entertainment, infinite arrays of choices for your mobiles, yet, we still have to face the same problems year after year, as if we never knew this was coming.

The coming years will be interesting. People are losing their homes if not to environmental disasters, then the economical crisis is going to be lurking around the corner. If you somehow survive all that, don’t worry there’s still the energy crisis waiting to catch everyone. What are you going to do when peak oil becomes a daily problem?

Remember the red skies in Blade Runner? This is probably the craziest idea I’ve heard in a while. These guys are thinking about pumping the chemical gasses into the atmosphere to help reduce global temperatures as reducing carbon emissions seems to be more costly than most ideas. But then is this really the answer? Will money always be the reason we do and don’t do certain things? When will we be free from the chains of money?

(via The Atlantic)