growth

 Then there’s Limits to Growth from MIT

http://limits-to-growth.org/

You could make a bug jar and take it to the professor, as per my post on 4/12–it does make a point.  Or if you are the professor, keep the gross thing on your desk and you will have lots of opportunities to explain it.

A lot of the talking heads in Washington are scared silly and just keep talking a positive spin.  They are as afraid of mass panic as much as they are of anything else–They more they know, the less likely they are to get real with us.