Oil and Debt: Why Our Financial System Is Unsustainable
Oil and Debt: Why Our Financial System Is Unsustainable How much energy, water and food will the “money” created out of thin air in the future buy? Finance is often cloaked in arcane terminology and math, but the one dynamic that governs the future is actually very simple. Here it is: all debt is borrowed against […]
Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away
Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away Collapse is a frightening subject. The question of why collapse occurs is something I have pieced together over many years of study from a number of different sources, which I will attempt to explain in this post. Collapse doesn’t happen instantaneously; it happens many years after an […]
Marti’s Corner – 07
Marti’s Corner – 07 Hi Everyone, Being prepared means trying to plan for a variety of contingencies. Having no power is one of those possibilities. I’m sure that most Texans could NEVER have foreseen having no power in the middle of freezing weather. In Texas!!!! Now is a good time to ask, “What if that […]
New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms
New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms Soil on hilltops in this photo is lighter in color, revealing a loss of fertile topsoil. Evan Thaler for NPR Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America’s Midwestern prairie. A team of scientists just came up with a staggering new estimate for […]
Power Down
Power Down One of the articles of faith I have held for a long time is that we are not, collectively, going to deal with the troubles of our future willingly. We are not going to reduce our energy and resource usage in an effort to mitigate the worst impacts of ecological destruction and climate […]
Is it Taxes or Debt Default Which Cause Revolution?
Is it Taxes or Debt Default Which Cause Revolution? QUESTION: Marty, do you agree with other analysts who claim debt defaults create revolutions? From reading your work for decades now, I think you would say it was taxes. Am I correct? Hopefully, see you at the next WEC again KL ANSWER: You are correct. Rome never […]
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley. […]
60 Years After Eisenhower’s Warning, Distinct Signs of a ‘Digital-Intelligence Complex’
60 Years After Eisenhower’s Warning, Distinct Signs of a ‘Digital-Intelligence Complex’ In June 2019, Susan Gordon stood on a stage at the Washington Convention Center. Behind her loomed three giant letters, “AWS,” the abbreviation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the giant Internet retailer. After three decades at the Central Intelligence Agency, […]
Olduvai: Excerpt read by author, Steve Bull
Olduvai: Excerpt read by author, Steve Bull
A Practical Exercise Suggestion for Peak Oil Sceptics
A Practical Exercise Suggestion for Peak Oil Sceptics (Translated from Spanish by Amelia Burke, originally published in two parts.) When someone calls into question the existance of a peak in the production (extraction) of a non-renewable resource, which oil is, you should invite them to study carefully the curves of the Energy Export Databrowser. This Databrowser […]
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene Abstract The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures from the status quo to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve sustainability. The steering arms of society including embedded financial, legal, political, and governance systems must be radically realigned and […]
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms Democrats’ justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media — “they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism” — is what despots everywhere say. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) with other House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol January 15, 2020 […]
Bert Dohmen Warns “Forget Global Warming – The True Danger may be Global Cooling”
Bert Dohmen Warns “Forget Global Warming – The True Danger may be Global Cooling” “The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.” ― Dr. Wayne Dyer Because of the winter storm disaster in Texas and some other states, and the “global warming” crowd telling us it is […]
How to Beat Facial Recognition Software
How to Beat Facial Recognition Software Outline Already In Use How It Works Hiding in Plain Sight How You Should Avoid Detection Imagine a world where everywhere you go, you are being watched, scrutinized, penalized, or rewarded for your behavior. In some countries, this is is their reality. If you run a temperature, a camera […]
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation Abstract Climate change has become intertwined with the global economy. Here, we describe the contribution of inertia to future trends. Drawing from thermodynamic principles, and using 38 years of available statistics between 1980 to 2017, we […]
