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A Transition for Humanity Into the Post-Petroleum Age: 10 Commandments.
A Transition for Humanity Into the Post-Petroleum Age: 10 Commandments. On her blog, “Our Finite World”, Gail Tverberg outlines the likely prognosis for humanity, and our best possible choices, as we run up against the Limits of Growthhttp://ourfiniteworld.com/2014/02/17/reaching-limits-to-growth-what-should-our-response-be/ The case she unveils is, to say the least of it, sobering, but I am reminded of an […]
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards (part 1): PeakOil, Meet Fractional-Reserve Banking
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards (part 1): PeakOil, Meet Fractional-Reserve Banking (image by Viktor Hertz) If the ongoing crash of oil prices over the past year – and now the stock market crashes of last week – have continuously taught me one thing, that would be that I’ve got very little clue regarding the economic implications ofpeak oil. […]
Nicole Foss Talks Energy Industry Issues and Oil Price Collapse
Nicole Foss Talks Energy Industry Issues and Oil Price Collapse Part I- Energy Industry Issues The Doomstead Diner site blurb: Coal Industry Collapse-Carbon Sequestration One of the biggest effects we see lately is a collapse in commodity prices, through all sectors. Most intriguing to me is the collapse in coal prices, since coal is used […]
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett’s Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and Viktor Frankl’s From Death Camp to Existentialism (later republished under the title Man’s Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced […]
True Believers
True Believers There is a special species of idiot at large in the financial media space who believe absolutely in the desperate and tragic public relations bullshit that this society churns out to convince itself that the techno-industrial high life can continue indefinitely, despite the mandates of reality — in particular, the fairy tales about […]
Europe oil consumption peaked 2005
Europe oil consumption peaked 2005 This is the 3rd article using data from the BP Statistical Review published in June 2015 Fig 1: Western Europe oil consumption, oil prices in $2014 Total oil consumption peaked 3 times at around 14 mb/d: (1) In 1973, the 1st oil crisis which was triggered by the Yom Kippur war. […]
EIA Confirms: Oil Production Peaked
EIA Confirms: Oil Production Peaked U.S. oil production has peaked…at least for now. That is the conclusion from a new government report that concludes that U.S. oil production is on the decline. After questions surrounding the resilience of U.S. shale and when low oil prices would finally cut into production, the EIA says the month […]
Top 5 Oil Producing Countries Could See Production Peak This Year
Top 5 Oil Producing Countries Could See Production Peak This Year The EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook came out a few days ago. That is where they try to guess the future production and price for oil, for the USA as well as the world. As of late they seem to be getting a little timid with their […]
How Pope Francis’s climate encyclical is liberating the world
How Pope Francis’s climate encyclical is liberating the world In my life there are two things that have the effect of at least somewhat isolating me from others. The first is being a writer on climate change, peak oil, and the economic crises bound up with those modern predicaments. The other is being a Christian […]
