Drastic action is needed to prevent European bond markets from drying up. Trichet has said repeatedly that current ECB interventions do not target interest rates.

However, statistical estimates of its depletion hide much more than they reveal.

Most of the people at risk of hunger and malnutrition live in rural areas.

Meanwhile, the US is suffering from the hollowing out of its defense industrial base.

Today, however, the US empire is in relative decline and fiscally over stretched.

And, in many places, oil supplies are declining as old oil fields are depleted.

In the 1980 s, Mikhail Gorbachev warned that Soviet oil resources were exhausted.

To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land.

The Pakistani military finds militant outfits useful tools to bleed their adversaries in India and Afghanistan, and has shown little inclination to clamp down on them, despite years of assurances that action would be taken to curb their activities.

The threat of depleting the world s scarce energy resources has maintained a powerful hold on popular thinking ever since the oil shocks of the 1970 s.

I do not envy future generations for having to address the possible ramifications of global warming and fresh water depletion.

Some deep wells are approaching the point of exhaustion, with salinity set to rise as ocean water infiltrates the aquifer.

Ruby was taken to the vets for a check up and was found to be fine other than exhaustion and dehydration.

This will put pressure on the rural economy and place more strain on areas already grappling with meagre resources.

A rash predication, perhaps, given global violence, climate change, and threats to food, energy, and water supplies.

And I'm so worn out at this point in my life, I look at her and I actually say, It was a frickin' spiritual awakening.

They say that fears of running out of resources, notably food and energy, have been with us for 200 years, and we never succumbed.

A world where I could escape and spend as much time as I could without running out of new things to see and feel.

The developed world fears the depletion of vital resources by the developing world, which in turn blames the developed world for destroying the environment in pursuit of profit.

Kavitha, only one and half years old, died of malnutrition last week, adding to the staggering statistics of the dead tribal children in Attappady, a tribal belt area in Kerala, India with a dense population of indigenous people.

Rapidly intensifying water scarcity reflects bulging populations, depletion of groundwater, waste and pollution, and the enormous and increasingly dire effects of manmade climate change.

In the physical world, governments have a near monopoly on large scale use of force, the defender has an intimate knowledge of the terrain, and attacks end because of attrition or exhaustion.

In China, for example, military planners developed a strategy of unrestricted warfare that combines electronic, diplomatic, cyber, terrorist proxy, economic, and propaganda tools to deceive and exhaust US systems.

According to the document, released on September 13, China will seek to modernize its state owned enterprises, enhance state assets management, promote mixed ownership, and prevent the erosion of state assets.

With nuclear power regarded as the main technological bulwark against depletion of the world's oil supplies suddenly suspect, oil prices doubled again by the year's end.

The challenges of poverty, resource depletion, climate change, and human rights will dominate Ban s second term, and the work of those who will follow him as Secretary General.

Investors also need to consider carbon bubbles, the overvaluation of fossil fuel companies based on the assumption that they will be able to continue burning the world s reserves until depletion.

I will try to explain briefly the roots of this debate, which has not surfaced this year because of exhaustion, or perhaps because we have given up on pinpointing the exact date which ushered in the revolution.

Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.

And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, in which we lose what we have, which oscillate, and they oscillate until we lose everything we've got.

Or perhaps there just isn't a name for this broken, soft indifference, this cracked exhaustion crushing our civic consciousness, this simple perception of reality we endure day by day.

Gabungan antara perubahan iklim, hilangnya keanekaragaman hayati dan pengikisan sumber daya alam mendorong planet bumi menuju titik kritis, bahkan melebihi titik dimana tujuan tujuan seperti pembangunan berkelanjutan dan pengentasan kemiskinan akan jauh lebih sulit untuk diwujudkan.