I’ll be delivering the Friday night keynote presentation at the sold-out CIRQUE’09 conference, January 30-31 2009. CIRQUE is the annual Conference on Industry and Resources at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This year’s theme is “Extreme Engineering”. My talk is going to be about industry and resources alright, about the permanent decline of both and what it means for civilization. Much of the talk will be drawing from Derrick Jensen’s Endgame talk on Google Video, David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios web-book, and the shock-u-mentary What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.