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The Limits to Growth and Greece: systemic or financial collapse?

June 30, 2015

The Limits to Growth and Greece: systemic or financial collapse? The results of the “standard run” (or “base case”) scenario of “The Limits to Growth” 1972 study. Could it be that the ongoing Greek collapse is a symptom of the more general collapse that the model generates for the first two decades of the 21st […]

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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi gave a powerful speech on the need of acting against climate change….. or did he?

June 25, 2015

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi gave a powerful speech on the need of acting against climate change….. or did he? The international media seem to be fascinated by the similarities in the physical aspect of Mr. Bean and of Mr. Matteo Renzi, prime minister of the Italian Government. There may be some similarities, indeed, but it […]

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Sustainability is boring! (or: why Wayne Visser is right)

June 24, 2015

Sustainability is boring! (or: why Wayne Visser is right) Results of a “google trends” search of the term “sustainability”. Note the 6-month periodic oscillations. People regularly lose interest in sustainability in summer and at Christmas time. A clear evidence that they found the concept boring. Some days ago, I tried a Google Trends search of […]

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The climate encyclical: hang the pope?

June 19, 2015

The climate encyclical: hang the pope? Image above: an internet site with wild accusations against Pope Francis. That’s, of course, just the work of an isolated crackpot, but, a hundred years ago, Pope Benedict XV was widely accused of “defeatism” and threatened with hanging when he requested to stop the “useless slaughter” of the first […]

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The coming “tipping point” of the climate perception: enough to solve the problem?

June 16, 2015

The coming “tipping point” of the climate perception: enough to solve the problem? Recognizing the existence of world scale problems takes time. For instance, the above Google “Ngram” search show that world hunger was not recognized as a serious problem until relatively recent times. However, starting in the 1960s, considerable efforts were dedicated to increasing […]

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The Great Oil Game: Resource Crisis in Russia?

May 6, 2015

The Great Oil Game: Resource Crisis in Russia? Weekly pageviews of “Resource Crisis.” My blog seems to be having a remarkable success in Russia, but do the Russians understand the problem of resource depletion? Complex structures, such as states and empires, are always prone to collapse and they usually give little or no previous warnings. […]

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Climate change: can the Seneca effect save us?

April 26, 2015

Climate change: can the Seneca effect save us? Nothing we do (or try to do) seems to be able to stop carbon dioxide from accumulating in the atmosphere. And, as a consequence, nothing seems to be able to stop climate change. With the situation getting worse and worse (see here for an example), we are hoping that […]

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Seneca’s pyramids: how fast did the Mayan civilization fall?

January 14, 2015

Seneca’s pyramids: how fast did the Mayan civilization fall? Monument building cycle of the Mayan civilization. From “Sylvanus G. Morley and George W. Brainerd, The Ancient Maya, Third Edition (Stanford University Press, 1956), page 66.”. Courtesy of Diego Mantilla. Once you give a name to a phenomenon, you can focus your attention on it and […]

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