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The core theme of the authors blog is to chart out a realistic view of the future that awaits us, and planning our lives accordingly. My impression (from reading the blog these past few years) is that the author is a happy positive person, but you may have to dig into more of his work to see that.

There's plenty of information out there about water problems (California's loss of ground water for example).. I can't really post those articles though as they're not directly relevant to HN.