Coles, Woolworths recycling scheme collapses after secret stockpiles revealed
Coles, Woolworths recycling scheme collapses after secret stockpiles revealed Australia’s largest plastic bag recycling program has collapsed amid revelations hundreds of millions of bags and other soft plastic items dropped off by customers at Coles and Woolworths are being secretly stockpiled in warehouses and not recycled. Instead of being taken to companies that use the […]
The Shortages Are Coming
The Shortages Are Coming Do you remember in early 2020 when they told us that the shortages that we were experiencing would just be temporary? Of course some of them were, but then more shortages just kept on erupting. That wasn’t supposed to happen, and now it appears that our supply chain problems could potentially […]
How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction
How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction Abstract This paper assesses how much oil remains to be produced, and whether this poses a significant constraint to global development. We describe the different categories of oil and related liquid fuels, and show that public-domain by-country and global […]
The Unintended Consequences of Unintended Consequences
The Unintended Consequences of Unintended Consequences Decades of central bank distortions and regulatory / market-share capture by cartels and monopolies have completely gutted “markets,” destroying their self-correcting dynamics. Unintended consequences introduce unexpected problems that may not have easy solutions. An entirely different set of problems are unleashed as unintended consequences have their own unintended consequences. This is the problem with complex […]
Climate change threatening ‘things Americans value most,’ U.S. report says
Climate change threatening ‘things Americans value most,’ U.S. report says John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, speaks during a briefing at the State Department on Wednesday. (Susan Walsh/AP) Climate change is unleashing “far-reaching and worsening” calamities in every region of the United States, and the economic and human toll will only increase […]
Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’
Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ Food companies and governments must come together immediately to change the world’s agricultural practices or risk “destroying the planet”, according to the sponsors of a report by some of the largest food and farming businesses released on Thursday. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP© Provided by The Guardian […]
One Of Spain’s Largest Hydro-Power Plants To Halt Operations As Drought Worsens
One Of Spain’s Largest Hydro-Power Plants To Halt Operations As Drought Worsens A large drop in renewable energy output is forcing Spain to increase natural gas demand to generate electricity at a time Europe is in the worst energy crisis in a generation. Spain’s hydropower output has been halved this year due to drought, and things could […]
Peter Schiff: Very Scary Admissions from the Fed
Peter Schiff: Very Scary Admissions from the Fed Last week, the Federal Reserve delivered a 75-basis point rate hike, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell failed to deliver the more doveish rhetoric that many expected. The messaging did not indicate much softening in the stance on the future trajectory of rate hikes, despite an apparent “soft pivot” […]
Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It)
Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It) Alberta’s Oil Companies Are the Walking Dead. Albert’s oil-patch is a zombie, the walking dead. The companies that extract oil there owe more money than they can pay, more than they can borrow, more than they can earn. If they were made to pay their lawful debts, they […]
Energy’s role in economic production is severely underestimated!
Energy’s role in economic production is severely underestimated! Another brilliant exposition by Prof Steve Keen. The wording below is from a LinkedIn post I made tonight, targeted to Megan Woods (NZ Energy Minister) and Tina Schirr (BEC Lead) I posted the following to LinkedIn tonight, here’s the link to the OP: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathansurendran_friede-gard-prize-lecture-05-energy-in-production-activity-6994962828289851392-oU7s Friede Gard Prize Lecture […]
Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’ Exposed By Australian Researchers
MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war. ‘Bot armies’ are on the march in the Ukraine-Russia war, with automated ‘bot’ accounts sending up to 80% of tweets in the study sample size of over 5-million tweets, […]
US NatGas Futures Jump As Frigid Weather Set To Swoop Across Country
US NatGas Futures Jump As Frigid Weather Set To Swoop Across Country US natural gas futures bottomed on Oct. 24 after a 50% haircut on warmer weather. In the last two weeks, prices have staged a rally on the prospect of cold weather and tighter supplies. Last Monday, we penned a note titled “US NatGas Spikes […]
