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The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A Key Longevity Antioxidant Is Fading From Our Food Supply The Limits of Business-as-Usual in AEO 2025 | Art Berman Complexity, Collapse, and the Lessons of Late Antiquity More Than 150 Nobel-Prize Winning Scientists […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCII– Hydrocarbons: Our Finite, Master Energy Resource and the Implications Of Its Peak For Modernity
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCII– Hydrocarbons: Our Finite, Master Energy Resource and the Implications Of Its Peak For Modernity Sun setting on an oil field (gettyimages.ca) If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. I’m finding that Large Language Models (LLMs) are a fantastic tool for skimming large amounts of information and […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future Pompeii, Italy (1992). Photo by author. Following on the heels of my Contemplation that looked at a Peak Oil article that focused upon whether our cities would ‘collapse’ or not as a result of waning hydrocarbons (see: Website; Medium; […]
The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025
The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025 US Flies Bomber Group Over Middle East In Warning To Enemies | ZeroHedge Bizarre Symptoms of Societal Collapse Peak Oil. Food. Fascism. Collapse. Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change – Carbon Brief Bird study finds much larger volumes of toxic PFAS chemicals than previously […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVIII–Beyond Peak Oil: Will Our Cities Collapse?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVIII–Beyond Peak Oil: Will Our Cities Collapse? Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. CLICK HERE For long-time readers of mine, you will know that I have emphasised repeatedly the importance of energy to human existence and its complex societies. It is the net surplus energy that we have been able to […]
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024 What Won’t Happen Trump’s Bold Energy Gamble: It’s Not What You Think | Art Berman We already have a date for the zenith of civilization: 2025-2026 – Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse The Geopolitics of Climate Change || Peter Zeihan The longest 10 minutes of your life have just […]
The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025
The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025 End Of An Era: Ukraine Halts Transit Of Russian Gas To Europe | ZeroHedge By Charles & Chris: Doomers Anonymous We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? | Climate crisis | The Guardian The System’s Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off Seeing overshoot – by Elisabeth […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIV–US Peak Shale Oil & Gas: When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIV–US Peak Shale Oil & Gas: When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down. Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. This Contemplation has been prompted by a publication (see summary below) focused upon the apparent peaking of shale oil and gas production within the United States. The commentary on US shale extraction by the natural […]
The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024
The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024 What We Refuse to Believe | how to save the world “That’s Bait…” Chumming the Media Waters Doesn’t Work Like it Used To – Gold Goats ‘n Guns US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record | ZeroHedge When The Show Is […]
The Bulletin: October 10-16, 2024
The Bulletin: October 10-16, 2024 Chaos is Coming – John Rubino | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog Social Trust: It’s Not Warm and Fuzzy, It’s the Money, Honey Disinformation Isn’t the Problem. Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem – Global Research The History Of “Round Up” and pathways for Glyphosate Detox (from the soil and human […]
The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024
The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024 Persecuted Former FBI Specialist Urges Americans to Stock Up on Food and Prepare For Hardship – modernity Our Violent Future New Book Investigates the Trudeau Government Response to the Freedom Convoy, by Using the Emergencies Act – Global Research US War Profiteers Bring World To Brink Of Armageddon | […]
Peak oil and the low-carbon energy transition: A net-energy perspective
Peak oil and the low-carbon energy transition: A net-energy perspective Highlights Global gross and net-energy of oil liquids production is determined from 1950 to 2050. Energy required for production is estimated to be 15.5% of the actual gross energy. Oil liquids become a limit to a rapid and global low-carbon energy transition. The peak supply […]
What Exactly is Peak Oil?
What Exactly is Peak Oil? PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK I could go on and on about acceptance for probably weeks if not months, but today’s article isn’t about acceptance. Today’s article is about energy and resource decline, one of the symptom predicaments of ecological overshoot and what is commonly referred to as Peak Oil. I have mentioned both […]
Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI–Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future
Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI February 13, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future Quite often I get involved in online discussions with others about our predicament(s). Most of the time these are quite friendly in nature and a sharing of ideas […]
