This issue of the venerable periodical includes a cogitation on Blackwater mercenaries (in relation to their home base in ex-maroon territory); a critique of collapsism, thoughts on Hurricane Katrina as an image of things to come; a personal story of living without power in rural Canada; a piece called "After the Fall" which states, appropriately, "we should all just agree that we live in a post-apocalyptic era, and none of us were saved"; two pieces (one an interview) on Daniel Pinchbeck--author of 2012: the return of Quetzalcoatl, and other thoughts on disaster and our future.