The FBI Can Access Your Personal Data in 15 Minutes
The FBI Can Access Your Personal Data in 15 Minutes (Click on image for higher resolution) The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) can legally access your “secure messaging app content,” according to a new report by The Epoch Times. In fact, it would only take officers about 15 minutes to access the contents of iMessages to collect […]
“Potential Polar Vortex Event” Could Spark Bullish Reversal In NatGas
“Potential Polar Vortex Event” Could Spark Bullish Reversal In NatGas Since mid-October, U.S. natural gas futures have been beaten down 40% as the narrative of colder weather and tight supplies quickly flipped and crushed bullish traders. As the Northern Hemisphere winter is less than two weeks away, new weather models suggest “significantly colder” temperatures could return for […]
New Climate Study Predicting More Rain Than Snow in the Arctic ‘Rings Alarm Bells’
Icebergs are shown near Ilulissat, Greenland. (Photo: Ulrik Pedersen/NurPhoto via Getty Images) New Climate Study Predicting More Rain Than Snow in the Arctic ‘Rings Alarm Bells’ “There are huge ramifications of these changes,” said the lead researcher, “all of which have implications on wildlife populations and human livelihoods.” Research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests rainfall will […]
Here’s the Fracking Truth About America’s Last Fossil-Fueled Hurrah
Here’s the Fracking Truth About America’s Last Fossil-Fueled Hurrah In order to recover the abundance of these fuels that the EIA claims will be there for the taking, between now and 2050 the industry will need to drill something on the order of 700,000 new wells at a total cost of over $5 trillion. As […]
Elon Musk: “Civilization Is Going To Crumble”
Elon Musk: “Civilization Is Going To Crumble” Even billionaires like Elon Musk can see that the current state of affairs is completely and utterly unsustainable. If we stay on the path that we are on, and there are absolutely no indications that we plan to reverse course, societal collapse is inevitable. In fact, as I […]
The Impending World Energy Mess with Robert L. Hirsch
The Impending World Energy Mess with Robert L. Hirsch
Let’s Talk About Agriculture
Let’s Talk About Agriculture An agricultural barn of the 1800’s located at Falls Mill, Belvidere, Tennessee Agriculture is a technology (like fire and the wheel) and a system of extracting minerals and nutrients from the soil through photosynthesis. The industrial method of agriculture adds the use of fossil fuels through the Haber-Bosch process for fertilizer, many different […]
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity?
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity? We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable “waste is growth” economy and toxic inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse. The possibility that the United States could fragment is no longer a marginalized topic. Maps displaying various post-U.S. regional configurations accompany […]
Caught Up in Complexity
Caught Up in Complexity From analogicus, via Pixabay Readers of this blog will know that I have come to some big-picture conclusions about success and failure that are unsettling. I don’t like them myself. Not only do they create an inner sadness about where I think the human endeavor is heading, but they result in a sort of isolation […]
U.S. shale oil and gas forecast: Too good to be true?
U.S. shale oil and gas forecast: Too good to be true? Earth scientist David Hughes—who is out with a new skeptical report on the future of U.S. shale oil and gas—has two very important things in common with Michael Burry. Burry is the investor made famous by The Big Short, the book that was later turned into a […]
Irish central bank raises gold reserves by 33%, worried by inflation
Irish central bank raises gold reserves by 33%, worried by inflation Recently the Central Bank of Ireland joined the ranks of sovereign gold buyers, adding 2 tonnes of gold to its monetary gold reserves in 2 months, consisting of a tonne of gold bought in each of September and October 2021. While in relative terms, […]
China Could Cause The Next Massive Crash In Oil Prices
China Could Cause The Next Massive Crash In Oil Prices China has been one of the main drivers of the 2000-2014 commodities supercycle Slower economic growth and a huge debt bubble pose a tremendous risk to oil markets China’s Evergrande crisis shows the fragility of the Chinese debt market Given the extreme disconnect between China’s […]
The Theranos Trial Shows Why We Should Be Suspicious of Nuclear Fusion
The Theranos Trial Shows Why We Should Be Suspicious of Nuclear Fusion Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Amy Osborne/Getty Images The Theranos story is an epic tale of folly with lots of twists and turns, but it’s by no means unique. At the very same moment the play-by-play of the Elizabeth Holmes trial sprawls […]
How the world embraced consumerism
How the world embraced consumerism (Image credit: Getty Images) Over the course of the 20th Century, capitalism moulded the ordinary person into a consumer. Kerryn Higgs traces the historical roots of the world’s unquenchable thirst for more stuff. _____ The notion of human beings as consumers first took shape before World War One, but became commonplace […]
Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high
Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high Current high food prices, combined with the ongoing pandemic, will make the global food supply highly vulnerable to extreme weather shocks in 2022. Aerial view of stranded barges along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, on August 30, 2021, in the wake of category […]
