Why The Climate Emergency is now The Methane Emergency
Why The Climate Emergency is now The Methane Emergency We are about to go through the most profound shift in the climate debate in 20 years. The result will be the end of the gas industry’s hope of being a transition fuel, a brutal market disruption to the agriculture and livestock industries and the arrival […]
Inflation, Covid, Central Banks and Politics – about half the things to really worry about…
Inflation, Covid, Central Banks and Politics – about half the things to really worry about… As markets shake off their summer slumbers, what should we be worrying about? Lots..! From real vs transitory inflation arguments, the long-term economic consequences of Covid, the future for Central Banking unable to unravel its Gordian knot of monetary experimentation, […]
The Myth of The “Energy Transition”
The Myth of The “Energy Transition” Today I want to tackle once again the subject of the much-hyped “energy transition” which has been thoroughly debunked from articles, books, documentaries, and presentation videos such as Planet of the Humans, Bright Green Lies (also located here), Life After Fossil Fuels, Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality, The Hydrogen Economy Myth, Energy and Human Ambitions on […]
The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications
The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications Beyond the headlines: what climate science now shows about Earth’s future. Can we act in time? The UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest comprehensive report on the state of the earth’s climate. The much-anticipated report dominated the headlines for a few days […]
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset It’s a corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines Last year’s WEF summit had the theme ’the Great Reset’ EThamPhoto / Alamy Stock Photo ‘The Great Reset’ conspiracy theories don’t seem to want to die. The theories […]
OMG Afghanistan Is Invading Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
OMG Afghanistan Is Invading Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ During the Trump years the media wept for the poor kids in cages and ignored all the bombs he was dropping. Now the media ignore the kids in cages and weep for the poor […]
Germany Schnitzels Itself After Ditching Nuclear, Coal Power For Green Pipe Dreams
Germany Schnitzels Itself After Ditching Nuclear, Coal Power For Green Pipe Dreams As Germans continue to ‘enjoy’ the highest power bills in Europe, critics are warning that green energy solutions aren’t being deployed quickly enough amid the closure of its last nuclear reactor, and a sharp (and possibly early) reduction in coal electricity generation – putting the […]
Australian Truck Drivers Vow To Block Every Major Highway In Radical Anti-Lockdown Strike
Australian Truck Drivers Vow To Block Every Major Highway In Radical Anti-Lockdown Strike As Australians take to the streets to protest the country’s lockdown measures – most recently clashing with police over the weekend, Aussie truck drivers are planning to shut down every major highway across the country and have advised people to ‘stock up on groceries.’ One driver, […]
Whatever happened to China’s revolutionary molten salt nuclear reactor program?
Whatever happened to China’s revolutionary molten salt nuclear reactor program? Several years ago during a radio interview, the host told me that the Chinese were planning on deploying a commercial modular molten salt reactor (MSR) by 2020. For context, these nuclear reactors are based on existing technology demonstrated by previous operating prototypes, can use fuel that is […]
Global Solidarity: Toward a Politics of Impossibility
Global Solidarity: Toward a Politics of Impossibility The Imprisoned Imagination As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly subsides, it is not clear what lessons will be drawn by political leaders and publics around the world. Entrenched power, wealth, and conventional wisdom have demonstrated the overwhelming resilience of the global order even while the virus continues to ravage […]
You’re Not Going to Homestead Through Collapse
You’re Not Going to Homestead Through Collapse No matter how self-sufficient you become Photo by Roger Darnell on Unsplash “By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” — Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005) People […]
Potemkin Nation
Potemkin Nation There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just before other societies went through the important inflection points in their life cycle, you can tolerably often figure out when one of those is about to […]
The Fed Says, “Let Me Squeeze Your Dollars…5 Basis Points at a Time”
The Fed Says, “Let Me Squeeze Your Dollars…5 Basis Points at a Time” I still maintain no one will mark June 16th, 2021 as the day the world changed. Watching the dollar surge into this weekend thanks to a breakdown in the euro only validates that conclusion in my mind. Remember, on June 16th Presidents […]
The dollar’s debt trap
The dollar’s debt trap On the fiftieth anniversary of the Nixon Shock, this article explains why fiat currencies have become joined at the hip to financial asset values. And why with increasing inevitability they are about to descend into the next financial crisis together. I start by defining the currencies we use as money and […]
