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We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It?
We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It? In just two decades, the total value of the energy being produced via fossil fuel extraction has plummeted by more than half. Now $3 trillion of debt is at risk. Photo Credit: Pixabay It’s […]
How Systems Break: First They Slow Down
How Systems Break: First They Slow Down Alternatively, we can cling to a state of denial, and the dominant system will be replaced by arrangements that are not necessarily positive. The reality that cannot be spoken is that all the financial systems we believe are permanent are actually on borrowed time. One way we can judge […]
Blowback Denial, Climate Denial, and Apocalypse
Blowback Denial, Climate Denial, and Apocalypse Last week Donald Trump suggested something Bernie Sanders would never dare: getting rid of NATO. I took some time to read people’s comments and tweets online about it, and a huge number seemed to believe that NATO and the U.S. military have been performing a service for Europe, and […]
The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit
The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in Michael Moore’s allegorical documentary, Roger & Me, has recently become a morality play of a different sort as it captures national headlines highlighting a controversial series of decisions […]
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial It used to be, and indeed children are still taught in schools, that the advances that have been made in the last five hundred years (antibiotics, electricity, computers etc) resulted from the application of Science and its overthrow of dogmatic belief. All ideas are put to the […]
Study Finds The ‘Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over’
Study Finds The ‘Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over’ Conservative think tanks in the United States are a sort of “ground zero” for the production of doubt about the links between fossil fuel burning and dangerous climate change. These think tanks produce reports, hold conferences, write books, go on television, produce columns and blogs […]
UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF ‘ready to shoot down’ Russian planes over Iraq
UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF ‘ready to shoot down’ Russian planes over Iraq © Daily Star / The Sunday Times UK media allegations that RAF pilots in Iraq had been authorized to shoot down Russian fighters in case of imminent threat have prompted a response from Moscow. Britain’s military says there is “no truth” […]
4 Charts Show Why This Rally Will Become a Rout!
4 Charts Show Why This Rally Will Become a Rout! There’s a reason why I warn you to get out of a bubble a little early rather than a little late. It’s because the first wave down tends to happen in a matter of a few weeks or months, sometimes days. It’s fast and furious. […]
Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, Why Climate Deniers Are Their Own Worst Nightmares
Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, Why Climate Deniers Are Their Own Worst Nightmares When I go out with my not quite three-year-old grandson, his idea of a good time is hide-and-seek. This means suddenly darting behind a bush too small to fully obscure him or into a doorway where he remains in plain sight, while I wander […]
In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril
James Steidl/Shutterstock In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril A requiem for planet Earth As we’ve been discussing of late here at PeakProsperity.com, humans desperately need a new story to live by. The old one is increasingly dysfunctional and rather obviously headed for either a quite dismal or possibly disastrous future. One […]
The Burden of Denial
The Burden of Denial It occurred to me the other day that quite a few of the odder features of contemporary American culture make perfect sense if you assume that everybody knows exactly what’s wrong and what’s coming as our society rushes, pedal to the metal, toward its face-first collision with the brick wall of […]
TIGHTEN THOSE CHIN STRAPS FOLKS BECAUSE HERE COMES A RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY (RUD)
TIGHTEN THOSE CHIN STRAPS FOLKS BECAUSE HERE COMES A RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY (RUD) Please stick with this piece dear reader for it does not end on the same path from which it starts. Being a child of the 50’s and 60’s, it comes as no surprise to anyone from that era that I’m a bit […]
Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question – Transition Milwaukee
Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question – Transition Milwaukee. Myth #1: Liberals Are Not In Denial “We will not apologize for our way of life” –Barack Obama The conservative denial of the very fact of climate change looms large in the minds of many liberals. How, we ask, could people ignore so […]
Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? – Peak Oil Matters. The economic effects of peak oil are as obvious as they are frightening. The most immediate effect is to increase oil prices, and this has its own effect of slowing the economy down. There was a period in which Saudi Arabia could modulate the […]
