The decline of oil has already begun
The decline of oil has already begun In 1961, when I was 14, working on a science fair project, my father – a geologist and petroleum engineer – explained oil depletion to me. To grow production, oil companies were drilling deeper and deeper wells, developing technologies to extract more oil from spent fields, and would […]
Russia running out of oil? Profitable reserves may last only another 20 years, Moscow says, citing improved tech as only solution
Russia running out of oil? Profitable reserves may last only another 20 years, Moscow says, citing improved tech as only solution Employees work on a drilling rig at an oil field owned by Russia’s oil producer Tatneft near Almetyevsk, in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. © Sputnik / Maksim Bogodvid Russia’s lucrative role as one […]
Chevron CEO Warns “New Dynamics” To Boost Energy Prices Amid Global Supply Crunch
Chevron CEO Warns “New Dynamics” To Boost Energy Prices Amid Global Supply Crunch Soaring energy prices are stoking new concerns about a stagflationary environment of high prices and waning economic growth. Natural gas prices in Europe and the US are through the roof, and WTI futures are over $70 per barrel. Chevron Corp.’s CEO Mike […]
Seven Possible Causes of the Next Financial Crisis
Seven Possible Causes of the Next Financial Crisis The great financial historian, Charles Kindleberger, pointed out in the 1970s that over several centuries, history showed there was a financial crisis about once every ten years. His observation still holds. In every decade since his classic Manias, Panics and Crashes of 1978, such crises have indeed continued to […]
Cat 1 Hurricane Nicholas Makes Landfall On Texas Coast, Multiple Nuclear Power Plants In Path
Cat 1 Hurricane Nicholas Makes Landfall On Texas Coast, Multiple Nuclear Power Plants In Path Hurricane Nicholas made landfall early Tuesday morning on the Matagorda Peninsula just south of Houston, Texas. Nicholas hit the area as a Category 1 but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph. […]
Central Bank Visions of Absolute Control
Central Bank Visions of Absolute Control There’s not much you can do in the year 2021 that doesn’t leave a digital trail. The collusion of big tech and big government has assured this. Still, there does remain one simple way to elude the busybodies. In fact, one of the last ways to preserve some level […]
Eating Weeds – Everything You Need to Know!
Eating Weeds – Everything You Need to Know! At eattheplanet.org we have been eating weeds for a long time. Foraging for wild edibles can be a safe and fun way to strengthen our relationship with the natural world and each other. Eating weeds, in particular, is a great place for a novice forager to begin […]
What is a Planetary Boundary?
What is a Planetary Boundary?
The gritty reality of solar power
The gritty reality of solar power Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line and begin phasing out fossil fuels at the accelerated pace that the climate emergency demands. And if they can manage to do that, they clearly will […]
WikiLeaks Puts Afghanistan Back on Media Agenda
WikiLeaks Puts Afghanistan Back on Media Agenda Immigration Dominates Cable News The war in Afghanistan — a subject that has generated periodic spikes in media interest but not a high level of sustained coverage — was back atop the mainstream news agenda last week. And this time, the catalyst was neither violence on the ground […]
The Next US Civil War
The Next US Civil War COMMENT: Marty, You have been right about everything! This nightmare has unfolded exactly as you said it would globally not just here in the USA and nobody listened. I have attended many WEC’s and I’m so grateful for you and your staff. This feels hopeless. Is it time to leave the […]
The Banality of (Financial) Evil
The Banality of (Financial) Evil The financialized American economy and State are now totally dependent on a steady flow of lies and propaganda for their very survival. Were the truth told, the status quo would collapse in a putrid heap. Go ahead and be evil, because everyone else is evil, too, because being evil serves […]
Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We live in a world of manufactured lack, manufactured enemies, manufactured crises and manufactured consent. We’ve had sufficient resources to care for everyone for generations. All our wars are based on lies. All our problems are cooked […]
These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months
These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months Photo by Connor Daylenko The U.S. and most of the world is at the threshold of what I would call a nexus point in history. There are establishment forces at play that seek to impose a permanent authoritarian presence within our nation in […]
Soil salinity and erosion
Soil salinity and erosion Preface. Civilizations fail when their soils are ruined or eroded. One way conquerors made sure that those they enslaved during wars was to salt their land and burn their homes so they had nowhere to escape to. Erosion is an even larger nation killer, since not all soils are prone to […]
