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Oil Producers May Ditch Old FPSO Offshore Projects In This Downturn
Oil Producers May Ditch Old FPSO Offshore Projects In This Downturn The swift oil price crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will reduce the combined free cash flow of FPSO fields, which have produced above three quarters of their original resources at just $2.20 per barrel this year. This is a jaw-dropping decline from 2019’s […]
Will covid-19 delay peak oil?
Will covid-19 delay peak oil? With global demand having fallen by about 29 million barrels per day from a year ago, it seems like this pandemic might delay peak oil production while the pandemic and consequent depression lasts, since so much less oil is being consumed. Since storage is getting full, many oil producers are […]
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: The corruption of science, the falsification of science, and we […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings Editorial Note: This is Part 4 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, and Part 3 on Agriculture here. Part 4: Buildings Estimations for the percentage of greenhouse gases emitted by the buildings sector vary wildly. But […]
Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture
Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture listen to the author read this post: or watch on YouTube It’s early days yet, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already proven to be revelatory, exposing much that is ugly about the “normal” functioning of the US: the sorry state of health care, the unresponsiveness […]
Coronavirus: The “Rescue” Is Stealing Your Wealth
Coronavirus: The “Rescue” Is Stealing Your Wealth The elites get richer and we lose our jobs & future prospects As we begin to get a better handle on what happens inside the body when covid-19 infects, it’s clear that early treatment makes a big positive difference. And we’re learning of effective measures you can take […]
Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge
Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge Raw Realities of Renewable Energy Something that long hasn’t set well with me in the green movement is that so much of it is based on marketable products. For example, not long ago, the world was set alight by the idea of plant-based soda bottles. It was as if making plastic […]
More Evidence Covid-19 May NOT Be Natural
More Evidence Covid-19 May NOT Be Natural The data is starting to mount on the side of at least *some* manipulation Natural or man-made/manipulated? The debate rages on, though evidence is starting to mount on the side of at least *some* manipulation. In Tuesday’s video, Chris talked about the polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA which […]
Disobedience, Protest, and the Pandemic: Climate Change and Citizen Action under Conditions of Social Distancing
Disobedience, Protest, and the Pandemic: Climate Change and Citizen Action under Conditions of Social Distancing Civil disobedience is not just a checklist of components, but a tradition of morally purposeful action and an expression of citizenship, CUSP Fellow Graeme Hayes writes. As the pandemic ushers in new social norms, and political and economic interests may […]
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself?
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself? If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires. The coronavirus pandemic is, among other things, a tribute to human ingenuity and our relentless pursuit of globalization, an impulse thousands of years old. Previous civilizations, from the […]
Planet of the Humans: Reviewing the Film and its Reviews
Planet of the Humans: Reviewing the Film and its Reviews If you haven’t seen the latest (and arguably the most contentious) documentary on renewable energy, be prepared for an aftertaste of mixed feelings. Joining hands with the controversial Michael Moore, environmentalist and filmmaker Jeff Gibbs has sent an eerie message that is now somewhat dividing […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Agriculture
False Solutions to Climate Change: Agriculture Editorial Note: This is Part 3 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here and Part 2 on Transportation here. It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real but beginning to bite. Now that much of the population is […]
China’s Covid Cover-Up, Economic War And The Elites Who Benefit
China’s Covid Cover-Up, Economic War And The Elites Who Benefit “Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge, which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. […]
The vital role local authorities could have in shaping food systems
The vital role local authorities could have in shaping food systems In a world where most of us buy our food from big food retailers with global supply chains, and governments set the policy framework, it might not seem that local authorities have much of a role to play in our food system. However, they […]
