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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 […]
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: […]
Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018
Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018 Preface. When I first published this post in February of 2022, I said that peak world oil production might have arrived, but it takes 5 years in the rear-view mirror to call it. Now peak “crude oil including lease condensate oil” is officially here! […]
Twilight of the Blobs
Twilight of the Blobs “Respect the blob, learn from the blob, love the blob.” — Robert Kagan, Arch Blob Monster, Brookings, 2020 HG Wells concocted a marvelous trick ending to his classic tale The War of the Worlds (1897). Remember: the colossal Martian tripod “fighting machines” swarm all over the planet zapping cities with “heat […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXI–Peak Oil: Not Ready For Mainstream Consumption
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXI July 29, 2022 (original posting date) Athens, Greece (1984). Photo taken by author. Peak Oil: Not Ready For Mainstream Consumption Today’s contemplation is based upon a post in a Peak Oil Facebook Group I belong to and the suggestion that the idea of Peak Oil is catching on more broadly and making […]
The Harsh Truth: We’re Using More Oil Than Ever
The Harsh Truth: We’re Using More Oil Than Ever In this age of climate crisis, the world is consuming more crude than ever. Peak oil demand? Not yet. Maybe one day, perhaps even soon, around 2030. For now, however, the global economy still runs on oil. It will take a while before governments certify it, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIX–Are We Being Duped Regarding Global Warming?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIX August 17, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Are We Being Duped Regarding Global Warming? Today’s contemplation was prompted by an email my mum sent me. As she closes in on 80, I find that she’s becoming a bit more open-minded about things but remains somewhat of a skeptic when it […]
Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate Change
Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate Change Even if there were no climate change, civilization would still collapse in the next few decades. Here’s why. I want to start by emphasizing that I have nothing but love and respect for the millions of climate activists in the world, many of whom work tirelessly to […]
