Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition
Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition Abstract We add to the emerging body of literature highlighting cracks in the foundation of the mainstream energy transition narrative. We offer a tripartite analysis that re-characterizes the climate crisis within its broader context of ecological overshoot, highlights numerous collectively fatal […]
The Insecurity Industry
The Insecurity Industry The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it 1. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart. I don’t do this to satisfy a tinkerer’s urge, or out of political principle, but simply because it is unsafe to operate. Fixing […]
Why methanol is not an option to replace gasoline or diesel
Why methanol is not an option to replace gasoline or diesel Preface. Methanol, or CH₃OH, is primarily used to make chemicals for plastics, paints, and cosmetics. It is made from coal or natural gas. “Green” methanol is made from biomass or biogas from landfills or sewage plants. Or it can be made by combining hydrogen […]
Markets Next “Minsky Moment”
Technically Speaking: The Markets Next “Minsky Moment” In this past weekend’s newsletter, I discussed the issue of the markets next “Minsky Moment.” Today, I want to expand on that analysis to discuss how the Fed’s drive to create “stability” eventually creates “instability.” In 2007, I was at a conference where Paul McCulley, who was with PIMCO at the time, discussed the idea […]
Weekly Commentary: Dangerous Addiction
Weekly Commentary: Dangerous Addiction July 20 – Reuters (Karen Pierog): “Risk-off sentiment that drove Monday’s sell-off on Wall Street and rally in U.S. Treasuries widened credit spreads on corporate bonds to multi-month highs. The spread on the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index, a commonly used benchmark for the junk bond market, spiked from 318 […]
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games “The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games hosts”. – Martin Müller, European Urban and Regional Studies, 2015 The organisers of the Olympics have always been into appearances and grand theatre. And the International Olympic Committee has always been […]
The prolific, inimitable Nate Hagens strikes again: This time with a new book on the human predicament
The prolific, inimitable Nate Hagens strikes again: This time with a new book on the human predicament “This will be the century which tests the human potential for mediocrity against the human potential for greatness.” — … “Earth’s currently most successful large creature is now in a predicament; a predicament brought about by a compelling combination of […]
Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson
Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson A few weeks ago, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee on the surveillance of journalists in a long series of scandals from the Bush to the Obama to the Trump to the Biden Administrations. These scandals have occurred with almost seasonal regularity. There was a rare sense of bipartisanship in […]
Consciousness And Dysfunction Cannot Coexist
Consciousness And Dysfunction Cannot Coexist Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If you are reading this, it’s likely the result of a long and ongoing process where at some point you got very curious about what’s going on in the world and managed to punch through the fog of mass media psyops with […]
Report: Russia Moving to Curtail Israeli Airstrikes on Syria
Report: Russia Moving to Curtail Israeli Airstrikes on Syria Russia looking to upgrade Syria’s air defense systems With several Israeli airstrikes against Syria seemingly every week, it has come to feel like the new normal. There are rarely serious engagements in Syria’s own war anymore, but airstrikes are consistent, and generally without Israel wanting to […]
Governments to Control What You Are Allowed to Buy
Governments to Control What You Are Allowed to Buy People are unaware that this drive of central banks to replace paper money with cryptocurrency is far more than they will ever comprehend as an end goal. Aside from the fact that governments could then impose a negative interest rate effectively confiscating money from your account […]
Cascade of Consequences
CASCADE OF CONSEQUENCES “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell 1984 “People will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.” – Frank Zappa Orwell and Zappa’s words of wisdom have […]
The World Will Run Out Of EV Batteries By 2025
The World Will Run Out Of EV Batteries By 2025 In many ways, the world is not ready for the EV revolution. While electric vehicles are an absolutely invaluable and essential component of the clean energy revolution and combating climate change and imperative which grows more urgent with each passing second, the world has been […]
World’s Food Supplies In Jeopardy Amid Climate Disasters
World’s Food Supplies In Jeopardy Amid Climate Disasters Devastating floods in Germany, China, Turkey, and India. Scorching hot weather in the Western U.S. and Canada. Worst frost in two decades across Brazil. These recent weather phenomena are rapidly intensifying and threaten further food inflation already at decade highs. We documented last week Brazil had some of the […]
Some inconvenient questions. Open letter to the politicians responsible for the Ecological Transition, in Spain and in Europe
Some inconvenient questions. Open letter to the politicians responsible for the Ecological Transition, in Spain and in Europe (First published at the author’s blog. Translated with permission by Amelia Burke / Fabricants de Futur.) Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: I am writing to you with the intention of raising a series of relevant questions regarding the current […]
