Iben Browning: Volcanoes, Weather, Food, Revolutions, HDTV, and the Copycat Effect
The link between global food shortages and the collapse of poorer world governments is certainly not new thinking. Lester R. Brown writing in Scientific American Magazine on April 22, 2009, entitled the article, " Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? " In the January 8, 2011, Economic Forecast 2011 by John Mauldin, widely reproduced on the interweb, his " Russia and the Roots of World Inflation " reinforced the growing concerns. Of course, by that date, governments were already changing (although, of course, he was mentioning previous predictions that had come to pass). The one man who is often forgotten in what we are seeing unfold on our cable news channels nightly is Iben Browning. Some of us have been students of his work for decades. He was a futurist. He predicted many things that have come to pass. He is credited with predicting a massive Hubble Space Telescope, for example. But those are just the trinkets. Few today know Browning is the man that i...