The Story of Seeds: Our Collective Legacy, Our Stolen Birthright
The Story of Seeds: Our Collective Legacy, Our Stolen Birthright What Is a Seed? Seeds are potential: These tiny, living organisms contain an entire root, stem, and leaf curled dormant in a shell. Seeds are richly various, and sometimes delicious: Pine nuts, almonds, nutmeg, mustard, coffee, cocoa beans, peanuts, beans, and peas — all of these are […]
Fourth Turning Winter of Death
FOURTH TURNING WINTER OF DEATH “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. […]
The press are completely crazy and they are going to get us all killed
The press are completely crazy and they are going to get us all killed Remarks on the rocket strike in Poland, and the heedless jingoistic war rhetoric of the German media Yesterday, at around 3.40 in the afternoon, a rocket exploded in the Polish village of Przewodów. Two people died. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky immediately blamed […]
Germany Preparing For Emergency Cash Deliveries, Bank Runs And “Aggressive Discontent” Ahead Of Winter Power Cuts
Germany Preparing For Emergency Cash Deliveries, Bank Runs And “Aggressive Discontent” Ahead Of Winter Power Cuts While Europe has been keeping a generally optimistic facade ahead of the coming cold winter, signaling that it has more than enough gas in storage to make up for loss of Russian supply even in a “coldest-case” scenario, behind […]
Oil Production by Country 2022 – Monthly Update
Oil Production by Country 2022 – Monthly Update https://youtu.be/qTR0uFZbcjY
Arthur Berman: The Devil is in the Diesel
Arthur Berman: The Devil is in the Diesel
Welcome to the oil death spiral
Welcome to the oil death spiral There is something deeply tragic about watching people who would be dead within a fortnight without oil nevertheless calling for oil – and fossil fuels more broadly – to be banned immediately. It is possible, of course, that these people believe that food grows inside supermarkets or that the […]
Crude Prices Jump After Israeli Tanker Hit By Iranian Drone Off Oman Coast
Crude Prices Jump After Israeli Tanker Hit By Iranian Drone Off Oman Coast Crude prices are higher Wednesday morning after a bomb-carrying drone on Tuesday evening struck an oil tanker owned by an Israeli billionaire, The Associated Press reported. The Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon was approximately 150 miles off the Omani coast at 730 pm local […]
Will the American Empire Collapse in Our Lifetime?
Will the American Empire Collapse in Our Lifetime? All good things must come to an end. Even the greatest of civilizations has an expiration date. This happened to the likes of Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the most advanced civilizations of their respective epochs. Once prosperous civilizations, eventually met their demise after years of […]
Economist Steve Keen says the planet cannot sustain 8 billion people | The Business | ABC News
Economist Steve Keen says the planet cannot sustain 8 billion people | The Business | ABC News
Climate Action- Right Way, Wrong Way
Climate Action- Right Way, Wrong Way It seems everywhere I go these days I see signs saying, “Climate Action- Now!”. But what do people mean by climate action? What exactly are they calling for? Are they calling for the right actions? Is our climate message the right one? Are our demands workable? Will the necessary […]
Friede Gard Prize Lecture 05 Energy In Production Functions
Friede Gard Prize Lecture 05 Energy In Production Functions Both Neoclassical and Post Keynesian economic models have been “energy blind”: postulating output from inputs of Technology, Labor and Capital, but ignoring energy (and matter, for that matter…). In this lecture I show how tautological and wrong the Cobb Douglas Production Function is, and that incorporating […]
Imperialism Of The Apocalypse
Imperialism Of The Apocalypse Rich people are depriving poor people of cheap energy in the name of climate change. Why? Clockwise from upper-left: Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex; Jennifer Lawrence; Prince Harry; Leonardo DiCaprio. Center: Pakistani boy with woodfuel for cooking (Getty Images) Few appear to care about climate change more than global celebrities. In […]
Pakistan ‘Has No Option But To Ration’ Natural Gas Supply This Winter
Pakistan ‘Has No Option But To Ration’ Natural Gas Supply This Winter The energy crisis in Pakistan has deepened this year. Gas supplies available for households will be very limited this winter. Pakistani households will have gas available for three hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon, and three hours in the evening. […]
