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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII–Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII December 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice Todays’ contemplation has been prompted by the usual shenanigans of government. In this case, the government of my home province of Ontario, Canada. As regular readers of […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXI–Diminishing Returns On Investments In Complexity
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXI December 4, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Diminishing Returns On Investments In Complexity Another very brief contemplation prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest writing regarding our energy predicament. What you have described so well is perhaps the conundrum faced by every complex society throughout history: diminishing […]
Dominoes Falling As Biden Admin Deals With Twin Energy Crisis In Russia, Middle East
Dominoes Falling As Biden Admin Deals With Twin Energy Crisis In Russia, Middle East A twin crisis is unfolding for the Biden administration as the US tax-payer-funded Ukrainian military bombs key crude refineries deep within Russian territory with suicide drones. The administration has pleaded with the Ukranians to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure as this will […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXX–Ignoring Ecological Systems Destruction
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXX November 28, 2023 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Ignoring Ecological Systems Destruction This contemplation shares a response of mine to another within an ongoing discussion regarding a Facebook post by Clean Energy Canada[1] highlighting one of Canada’s major energy companies’ offshore wind farm projects. This ‘think tank’ […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIX–Non-Renewable Renewable Energy-Harvesting Technologies (NRREHT): A Paradox For Our Times?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIX November 24, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Non-Renewable Renewable Energy-Harvesting Technologies (NRREHT): A Paradox For Our Times? A short contemplation after reading Richard Heinberg’s latest article and the apparent paradox that is evident in the musings of a number of writers in the energy-ecology nexus. Paradox: “…having qualities […]
Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018
Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018 Preface. When I first published this post in February of 2022, I said that peak world oil production might have arrived, but it takes 5 years in the rear-view mirror to call it. Now peak “crude oil including lease condensate oil” is officially here! […]
How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution
How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution We say we want solutions, but we actually want a specific subset of solutions: those that already meet with our approval. The possibility that none of these pre-approved solutions will actually resolve the problem is rejected because we are wedded to the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII–Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII November 20, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’ Let me begin this contemplation by stating that I do not hate ‘renewables’ nor am I a fossil fuel industry shill (the two common accusations lobbed at me whenever I criticise the notion of a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVII–It’s Too Late For Managed Degrowth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVII November 15, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. It’s Too Late For Managed Degrowth This contemplation is a ‘short’ comment I shared on an article by Martin Tye that showed up on my Medium feed and I read this morning. It asks an important question in whether […]
Swathes Of Ukraine Go Dark After Russia Pummels Electrical Power Facilities In Huge Retaliation
Swathes Of Ukraine Go Dark After Russia Pummels Electrical Power Facilities In Huge Retaliation We reported earlier on the clear escalation in Ukraine’s cross-border strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, during which time Moscow has in turn ramped up its own major airstrikes on Ukraine’s facilities. The Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) in a press briefing detailed its retaliatory […]
Bye-bye Carbon
Bye-bye Carbon Photo by K B on Unsplash Ours is a carbon based economy. On the other hand, carbon emissions are wrecking the climate; for proof just take a look at this short tour de force from Paul Beckwith. In related news UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879. But why is that so? Are we on a […]
EIA Confirms U.S. Producing More Oil Than Any Country in History
EIA Confirms U.S. Producing More Oil Than Any Country in History In mid-December, I wrote here that the U.S. had set a new annual oil production record: “The U.S. set a new annual oil production record on December 15, based on data from the Energy Information Administration. Although the official monthly numbers from the EIA won’t be […]
Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero
Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero The temperature extremes of 2023 and those coming in 2024, tell us we face the possibility of climate catastrophes that cause the collapse of whole societies and threaten the lives of millions, not at some distant point in our children’s futures but within our own lifetimes. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI–Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI November 12, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns Today’s contemplation is a quick rundown of three of the roadblocks I see preventing us from achieving the utopian dream of a seamless ‘clean’ energy transition from […]
