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We Should Aspire to be Peasants
We Should Aspire to be Peasants Painting by Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern – Public Domain Rising food prices — as the USDA has forecast for 2022 — may seem like a good thing for farmers. After all, who wouldn’t like to see some more cash? Farmers, like everyone else, have been through a lot lately. Years of stagnant […]
Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity?
Image by author Home/General/Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity? Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity? This post shares four things. The one that takes up the most space is about those two little words “food crisis” that are starting to make headlines. There’s a reason they’re making […]
The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe
Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sun at Black Law wind farm, in Black Law, Scotland, on Jan. 29, 2010. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images) The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe Almost every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, pays homage to the Big Green Lie. So do all the past and remaining […]
Phase Shift — Part 2
Phase Shift — Part 2 Putting tipping points into context Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash When you start to see the world as a massively complex self-adapting system with its innumerable actors and all its tipping points — as discussed in Part 1 of this essay — you start to see phase transitions everywhere. The world as […]
Germany’s Industrial Heartland Faces Crisis As Rhine River May Become Impassable By Friday
Germany’s Industrial Heartland Faces Crisis As Rhine River May Become Impassable By Friday Water levels on the Rhine River are nearing dangerously low levels, and new forecasts expect Europe’s most critical waterway for inland commodity shipments via barges could be impassable by the end of the week. The river at Kaub, Germany, is 47 centimeters (18.5 […]
Phase Shift — Part 1
Phase Shift — Part 1 Loosing polar ice, the Amazon and the fight against a coming recession Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash News stories and popular narratives on recent — and not so recent — events like how the economy got broke or why inflation is soaring focus too much on human decisions. As if ‘choices’ leading […]
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics”
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics” On this episode, we meet with Economist, Author, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London, Steve Keen. Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and […]
“Situation Is Really Precarious”: World’s Largest Rice Exporter Faces Output Decline Amid Heatwave
“Situation Is Really Precarious”: World’s Largest Rice Exporter Faces Output Decline Amid Heatwave The effects of elevated food prices have rippled worldwide and forced governments to impose price controls and trade restrictions. Price increases are due to supply constraints driven by several variables, including high energy prices, geopolitics, and weather. Ukraine restarted maritime transport of […]
Green technocracy’s dirty secret
Green technocracy’s dirty secret Germany is in trouble. The IMF has revised its projected growth figures down to just 1.2 percent for 2022. Even this may prove to be optimistic now that gas imports from Russia have dropped to just 20 percent of what was anticipated prior to the EU sanctions. With autumn approaching, German industry is anticipating […]
Norway Considers Limiting Electricity Exports To Prevent Domestic Crunch
Norway Considers Limiting Electricity Exports To Prevent Domestic Crunch Norway may soon introduce a rule to reduce its vast electricity exports if levels at reservoirs for hydropower generation drop to critically low levels in a bid to prevent power shortages and further rises in energy bills domestically. Norway’s Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Norwegian media, […]
UK Water Restrictions Go Into Effect As Heatwave Persists
UK Water Restrictions Go Into Effect As Heatwave Persists Britain has recorded one of its hottest and driest summers on record. Rivers and reservoirs are drying up as towns in the southern part of the country imposed the first hosepipe ban on Friday. The country’s record heat in July — above 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) — melted […]
The Lowdown on the “Climate Act”
THE LOWDOWN ON THE “CLIMATE ACT” This past week the media announced an historic climate legislation deal was struck in the Senate. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, ( a misleading title because the Act will do nothing to tame inflation) will allocate $370 billion in spending toward a “Green Energy” future. Where is the money […]
Peak lithium makes transportation & electricity storage pointless
Peak lithium makes transportation & electricity storage pointless Preface. The lithium batteries in cars need electricity to recharge, but the electric grid can’t stay up with just wind and solar, that’s why natural gas is the energy storage today. Nor do pumped hydro or compressed air energy storage scale up. And battery storage doesn’t either. Barnhart […]
‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?
‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown? Record high temperatures and extreme weather events are being recorded around the world. Photograph: Ian Logan/Getty Images Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading […]
