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How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer The mainstream environmental movement is unintentionally re-creating Dr. Strangelove, a cautionary tale about the perils of unexamined beliefs and one of the greatest films in cinematic history In Spring of last year, I was sitting on top of an excavator in Nevada as part of a protest […]
We’re Supposed To Be Done Finding New Oil and Gas. We’re Not.
We’re Supposed To Be Done Finding New Oil and Gas. We’re Not. Oil and gas reserves discovered and approved just since 2021 would add an entire year of China’s emissions to the atmosphere. That’s according to a new analysis from Carbon Brief, using Global Energy Monitor Data, and boy is it grim. A total of 14 billion tons […]
Post-Modernity
Post-Modernity As sketched in the previous post, I believe modernity to be an unsustainable flash that will not persist into future millennia. Uncomfortable with untethered speculation, I have said little about what might come after, but feel I owe something in this vein. Semantically, what follows the modern age must be the post-modern age, right? Except […]
Yale Study Unveils Asteroid Strikes As Possible Trigger for Earth’s Ice Ages
Yale Study Unveils Asteroid Strikes As Possible Trigger for Earth’s Ice Ages A Yale-led research team has proposed that large asteroid impacts could have abruptly triggered “Snowball” Earth periods, where the planet was encased in ice, resolving a long-standing debate about these dramatic climate shifts. Their study, using sophisticated climate models, suggests that under certain […]
‘Devastating to See’: Russia’s Orenburg Region Battles Historic Flood
‘Devastating to See’: Russia’s Orenburg Region Battles Historic Flood Experts say the floods, which have caught the authorities off-guard and left many people to fend for themselves, are just a preview of what is yet to come in the climate crisis. A view of a flood-hit area in the town of Orsk.Yegor Aleyev / TASS […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCVI–Technological ‘Breakthroughs’, Ponzi Schemes, and ‘Green’ Energy
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCVI February 3, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. Technological ‘Breakthroughs’, Ponzi Schemes, and ‘Green’ Energy A collection of my recent comments on posts/articles that have been shared with me via FB groups/pages. I share these to provide further ‘insight’ into where I am coming from in my […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCV–We All Believe What We Want To Believe
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCV January 31, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. We All Believe What We Want To Believe The following Contemplation is my comment in response to a thought-provoking post I read by Dave Pollard at his site How to Save the World. Great read, thanks for sharing. A […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIV–‘Representative’ Democracy: A Ruse To Convince Citizens That They Have Agency In Their Society
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIV January 29, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. ‘Representative’ Democracy: A Ruse To Convince Citizens That They Have Agency In Their Society A friend recently posted on my FB timeline the link to an article about the plans of our provincial government in opening up sections of […]
India’s most innovative cities including Bengaluru run out of water
India’s most innovative cities including Bengaluru run out of water Tech professionals are leaving India’s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season A thirsty growth engine | Photo: Bloomberg At the time Egypt’s pyramids were being constructed, one of the cradles […]
Open comment post: the AMOC shutdown and the future of agriculture
Open comment post: the AMOC shutdown and the future of agriculture It’s time to move on to pastures new from my Saying NO… book, as I mentioned in my last post. Seems like an opportune moment to try an ‘open comment’ post to signal the change of direction, an idea I trailed at the start of the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIII–Energy Future, Part 3: Authoritarianism and Sociobehavioural Control
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIII January 16, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. Energy Future, Part 3: Authoritarianism and Sociobehavioural Control In Part 1, I argue that energy underpins everything, including human complex societies. In Part 2, I suggest that the increasing need for diminishing resources, especially finite or limited ‘renewable’ ones, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCII–Ecological Overshoot and Collapse: Rearranging the Deck Chairs On the Titanic
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCII January 22, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. Ecological Overshoot and Collapse: Rearranging the Deck Chairs On the Titanic My comments prompted by two recent articles by The Honest Sorcerer (whose writing I highly recommend). January 13 post: I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head […]
Distilled Disintegration
Distilled Disintegration Photo by Nigel Brown; licensed under Creative Commons My adult life has run on two diverging tracks. On one, I played science. The other track branched off at age 34—twenty years ago this month—when I started teaching a class on Energy and the Environment. I was eager to piece together our likely energy future: […]
No water, no oil: How the parched western provinces could hamper the oilpatch
No water, no oil: How the parched western provinces could hamper the oilpatch Water shortages could have devastating effect on oil and gas sector, says new report Pumpjacks pull oil from the ground near Three Hills, Alta. Limited water supply could have significant effects on the production of oil and gas, warns a new report. […]
Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different, Part 5
Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different, Part 5 January 19, 2023 (original posting date) While I take a break from my Contemplation posts and specifically the energy series I began (see here for Part 1, Part 2), here is the sixth installment of chapters from the fourth book in my fictional novel series (that […]
