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2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle
2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle What is ahead for 2016? Most people don’t realize how tightly the following are linked: Growth in debt Growth in the economy Growth in cheap-to-extract energy supplies Inflation in the cost of producing commodities Growth in asset prices, such as the price of shares of stock […]
$10 Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price Spike Says OPEC
$10 Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price Spike Says OPEC OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note […]
Extinction, the New Environmentalism and the Cancer in the Wilderness
Extinction, the New Environmentalism and the Cancer in the Wilderness The word is in from the wildlife biologists. Say goodbye in North America to the gray wolf, the cougar, the grizzly bear. They are destined for extinction sometime in the next 40 years. Say goodbye to the Red wolf and the Mexican wolf and the […]
To feed growing cities we need to stop urban sprawl eating up our food supply
To feed growing cities we need to stop urban sprawl eating up our food supply New season asparagus from farmland on Melbourne’s city fringe. Matthew Carey If you’ve eaten any of the new season’s asparagus recently, it probably came from Koo Wee Rup, a small town 60 kilometres to the south east of Melbourne. Koo Wee Rup […]
One True Measure of Stagnation: Not in the Labor Force
One True Measure of Stagnation: Not in the Labor Force This is a stark depiction of underlying stagnation: paid work is not being created as population expands. Heroic efforts are being made to cloak the stagnation of the U.S. economy. One of these is to shift the unemployed work force from the negative-sounding joblesscategory to the benign-sounding Not […]
Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist
Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist Paul Ehrlich writes in Nature Climate Change that Francis is wrong to fight climate change without also addressing the strain from population growth on resources One of America’s leading scientists has dismissed as “raving nonsense” the pope’s call for action on climate […]
Leveling the Playing Field of Death
Leveling the Playing Field of Death In April 2015, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility released a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as two million. However, Nafeez Ahmed begs to differ, writing that western […]
Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb
Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb The master predicament that remains unaddressed In 1968, Paul Ehrlich released his ground-breaking book The Population Bomb, which awoke the national consciousness to the collision-course world population growth is on with our planet’s finite resources. His work was reinforced several years later by the Limits To Growth report issued by the Club of […]
Can We Really Cut CO2 Levels By Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground?
Can We Really Cut CO2 Levels By Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground? Population growth in the world’s developing economies, particularly Africa and Asia, has been and will continue to be a primary driver of demand for energy resources into the near and distant future. As more babies are delivered into the world, they will […]
To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia
To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia. November 12, 2014 — The 2008 global food price spikes were a wake-up call to global policy-makers, shaking them from the lethargic slumber of the overfed. The rhetorical responses were swift, but policies and practices have changed little. That is in part because they […]
