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We Have A Scalability Issue
We Have A Scalability Issue When the sea refuses to scale up to accommodate your shipwreck. Image credit Timur M via Unsplash At the dawn of the industrial revolution less than 1 billion humans inhabited this earth. We’ve consumed only a small proportion of the easy to access ores of iron, copper and coal. With the […]
World Has Just ’10 Weeks’ of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage, Analyst Warns
A combine drives over stalks of soft red winter wheat during the harvest on a farm in Dixon, Illinois, on July 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Jim Young) World Has Just ’10 Weeks’ of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage, Analyst Warns The world has only about 10 weeks of wheat supplies left in storage amid the conflict in Ukraine and […]
The End Of Growth Is Here
The End Of Growth Is Here Thank God and not a moment too soon Photo by author — old truck — Slab City February 2022 It was bad before. Before we decided to exponentially increase the thermodynamic whoopee Kurt Vonnegut Jr. warned us about, but now, not only have we decided to add a whole […]
Half a million Indians flee floods in northeast brought by rain
Half a million Indians flee floods in northeast brought by rain GUWAHATI, India, May 18 (Reuters) – More than 500,000 people have fled their homes in India’s northeastern state of Assam to escape heavy floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains that drowned seven, authorities said on Wednesday, as they warned the situation could worsen. One of […]
Quick Shot Of Heat To Roast 100 Million People In Northeast
Quick Shot Of Heat To Roast 100 Million People In Northeast About 100 million people in the Northeast will be blasted with a quick shot of heat and humidity this Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures are expected to range between the upper 80s and mid-90s from Ohio to Washington, D.C. to Baltimore to Philadelphia to […]
Now We Are Being Told To Expect Food And Diesel Shortages For The Foreseeable Future
Now We Are Being Told To Expect Food And Diesel Shortages For The Foreseeable Future If you think that the food and diesel shortages are bad now, then you will be absolutely horrified by what the globe is experiencing by the end of the year. All over the planet, food production is being crippled by […]
Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis Abstract In this paper we afford a quantitative analysis of the sustainability of current world population growth in relation to the parallel deforestation process adopting a statistical point of view. We consider a simplified model based on a stochastic growth process driven by a continuous time random […]
Texas Power Grid Warns Of Record Demand Amid Back-To-Back Triple-Digit Heatwaves
Texas Power Grid Warns Of Record Demand Amid Back-To-Back Triple-Digit Heatwaves An early summer heatwave pattern continues to boil parts of the Central and Southern Plains. This means parts of Texas will continue to roast with temperatures forecasted to reach triple digits next week. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state’s power grid […]
It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us (Episode 55 of Crazy Town)
It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us (Episode 55 of Crazy Town) Back in the day, the World’s Fair was a global showcase of innovation and a peerless cultural event where visitors envisioned a neon future filled with technological wonders. These international expos featured miracle inventions […]
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series Keowee Toxaway State Park, South Carolina I have a backlog of articles I have started but haven’t yet finished, so I’m starting with this one which has to do with our impending impasse. I think William Catton, Jr. worded that very well. It actually comes from his […]
Digging In: Why powering a green future means more mines
Digging In: Why powering a green future means more mines “It’s absolutely ironic. But to save the planet, we are going to need more mines.” Government geoscientist Around Australia new mining operations are being established and old sites, shuttered decades ago, are being brought back to life. These miners aren’t digging for coal or gold, […]
Whispers of the Fall
Whispers of the Fall It’s been sixteen years now since I first started posting these weekly essays to the internet. Though I didn’t originally intend them to focus on the crisis of industrial society, that theme was impossible for me to evade, and I soon gave up trying; there was too much that had to […]
