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Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies
Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. The main oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, even though prices are high and threatening to go much higher. The solutions being proposed—electric cars and renewable energy technologies—are […]
Peak Oil Has Finally Arrived. No, Really
Peak Oil Has Finally Arrived. No, Really Those who have called a top in oil may finally be proven right as sharp global rate hikes hurt consumption. Is the sun setting on oil? Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg I’ve rarely felt more trepidation about writing a column than this one. But here goes: After more than a century […]
James Howard Kunstler: It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller
James Howard Kunstler: It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller “I’m not a techno-narcissist. I don’t think there are technological rescue remedies that will allow us to keep doing what we’re doing…”— James Howard Kunstler There is a prevailing fallacy, despite warning signs to the contrary (looming peak oil, fragile markets, and climate weirdness, […]
What are our leaders doing?
What are our leaders doing? What force is powerful enough to synchronize every leader in almost every country to do the wrong thing on almost every covid action without assuming every leader is evil and/or stupid? Why has no one figured out what’s going on, including normally intelligent alt-media? Let’s assume that most of our leaders […]
Science Snippets: Peak Oil Has NOT Gone Away
Science Snippets: Peak Oil Has NOT Gone Away The video embedded below is scheduled to Premiere on YouTube at noon Eastern time on 13 June 2022. An online conversation will ensue shortly before, during, and slightly after the video is shown. Professor Guy McPherson’s AVID Audio Course Described and Available Here The Washington Post, 7 […]
Running On Empty
Running On Empty Well, we definitely seem to have passed a threshold of sorts. For most of the sixteen years since I started blogging, one of the things I had to point out constantly to my readers was the slow pace of historical change. Whenever I posted an essay on the twilight of industrial society, […]
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series Keowee Toxaway State Park, South Carolina I have a backlog of articles I have started but haven’t yet finished, so I’m starting with this one which has to do with our impending impasse. I think William Catton, Jr. worded that very well. It actually comes from his […]
Saudi Arabia warns that the world is running out of energy capacity: ‘I have never seen these things’
Saudi Arabia warns that the world is running out of energy capacity: ‘I have never seen these things’ The EU is planning a complete ban on Russian oil imports. iznashih/Getty Images Saudi Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman warned Tuesday that the world is “running out of energy capacity at all levels.” “I am a dinosaur, […]
Whispers of the Fall
Whispers of the Fall It’s been sixteen years now since I first started posting these weekly essays to the internet. Though I didn’t originally intend them to focus on the crisis of industrial society, that theme was impossible for me to evade, and I soon gave up trying; there was too much that had to […]
Will the world ever reach peak crude production of November 2018 again? (part 1)
Will the world ever reach peak crude production of November 2018 again? (part 1) According to EIA data global crude & condensate production peaked in November 2018 at 84.5 mb/d. The peak was short-lived: 2 months above 83 mb/d plus 3 months above 84 mb/d while the average for the remaining months was 82.2 mb/d. […]
The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead
The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead Media outlets tend to make it sound as if all our economic problems are temporary problems, related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In fact, world crude oil production has been falling behind needed levels since 2019. This problem, by itself, encourages the world economy […]
Peak Oil Might Be Just Three Years Away, McKinsey Says
Peak Oil Might Be Just Three Years Away, McKinsey Says The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade – perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by leading global consultancy McKinsey & Company. McKinsey’s Global Energy Perspective research was launched at a time when global […]
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break?
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break? Preface. This is a long preface followed by two articles about how supply chains and complex tractors may be affected by energy shortages and consequent supply chain failures in the future.Which we’re already seeing as massive numbers of ships sit offshore waiting to be […]
As oil declines, the threat of a greenhouse earth & extinction from climate change decline
As oil declines, the threat of a greenhouse earth & extinction from climate change decline Carbon sequestration, wind, solar, geo-engineering, and other remedies are trivial compared to the effect declining fossil fuels will have on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The natural rate of decline today is 8.5%, exponentially increasing, and offset by 4%, so the […]
Preparing for Peak Oil Part 1
Preparing for Peak Oil Part 1
