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5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
That Untraversed Land
That Untraversed Land It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the situation has become steadily worse. As I write this, rolling blackouts are leaving millions of people in China to huddle in the dark and […]
Fertilizer Prices Hit Record Highs, May Pressure Food Inflation Even Higher
Fertilizer Prices Hit Record Highs, May Pressure Food Inflation Even Higher Fertilizer prices have risen to a record high in North America, threatening to boost food inflation even higher. Nitrogen products are increasing due to the cost of natural gas, which is used in the manufacturing process. The Green Markets North America Fertilizer Price Index […]
An energy crisis is gripping the world, with potentially grave consequences
An energy crisis is gripping the world, with potentially grave consequences How China and Europe are catching the brunt of it The cooling towers at the coal-fired NTPC Ltd. Dadri Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh, India. The country, which relies on coal for about 70 percent of electricity generation, has already seen signs of power […]
British industry warns of factory closures without help on fuel costs
British industry warns of factory closures without help on fuel costs Stainless steel tubes are stored ready to be made into exhausts at the Eminox factory, during a post-Budget visit by Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, in Gainsborough, Britain October 30, 2018. Christopher Furlong/Pool via REUTERS LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Britain’s most […]
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction Dear Mr. Paulson, You arguably are one of the most powerful, famous, and networked men in the world, with many important accomplishments. I am the completely ordinary, middle class, volunteer steward of 53 acres of publicly owned, remnant floodplain woodland situated on the […]
It’s all happening…..
It’s all happening….. Anyone who has been following this blog long enough will know that I predicted 2020 was crunch time and that we were heading into the mother of all energy crises. As I write, the UK is in deep turmoil, Germany is making contingency plans for blackouts, Lebanon has turned power off, China’s rationing electricity and India is doing the same. Low rainfall […]
The Perfect Storm Is Bearing Down
The Perfect Storm Is Bearing Down Time, the saying goes, is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once. So now, maybe, we’re at the event horizon where nature is suspended because everything seems to be happening at once. The weeks ahead could determine whether we are a coherent society that can […]
Billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s flawed obsession with growth
Billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s flawed obsession with growth Image: courtesy of Tom Leishman/pexels.com Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t seem to worry a new generation of space entrepreneurs intent […]
Oil Prices Rebound As U.S. Walks Back Plan To Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Oil Prices Rebound As U.S. Walks Back Plan To Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve The U.S. Department of Energy is walking back previous comments that it was considering a release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and a ban on crude oil exports The DoE isn’t considering tapping the SPR “at this time” Goldman Sachs: SPR release […]
Weekly Commentary: Contagion
Weekly Commentary: Contagion Another big miss for non-farm payrolls, with September’s 194,000 jobs gain less than half the 500,000 forecast. But with the Unemployment Rate down to 4.8% and Average Hourly Earnings up 4.6% y-o-y (not to mention almost 11 million job openings), there’s ample evidence that much of the labor market has turned exceptionally […]
“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?The war on cash’s endgame is here: money replaced by vouchers subject to complete state control.
“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?The war on cash’s endgame is here: money replaced by vouchers subject to complete state control. Building on the bitcoin model, central banks are planning to produce their own “digital currencies”. Removing any and all remaining privacy, granting total control over every transaction, even limiting what […]
Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines
Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines Solar energy comes to Earthlings in many ways. Ancient Persians used passive solar architecture. East Africans about the same time funneled cool ocean wind through tunnels to cool themselves. Now at long last, solar energy is outpacing new fossil fuel and nuclear facilities on price, environmental safety, […]
One Ring to Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency
One Ring to Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency We’ve written extensively about the “war on cash.” In a nutshell, governments would love to do away with cash in order to better track and control their citizens. There have been numerous moves closer to a cashless society in recent years, from capping ATM withdrawals to doing […]
Here’s Why the Housing Market Has Gone from Overheated to Raging Inferno
Here’s Why the Housing Market Has Gone from Overheated to Raging Inferno Image credit: Creative Commons (CC0) The housing market is on the verge of spinning out of control. Just about everything that could be going wrong is going wrong. The only holdout for the moment is home prices, which are up an astonishing 22.5% just this year. For many […]
