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Everything is Illuminated: The New Middle Ages

April 25, 2021

Everything is Illuminated: The New Middle Ages  The Enlightened Middle Ages: Prepare for a New Way of Running Society The concept of “back to the Middle Ages” is becoming more and more widespread. Indeed, we must begin to think seriously not so much about a “return” to the Middle Ages but a “New Middle Ages” that […]

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Saudi Arabia Goes the way of the Garamantes. Google Earth Confirms the Collapse of the Water Supply 

April 18, 2021

Saudi Arabia Goes the way of the Garamantes. Google Earth Confirms the Collapse of the Water Supply  In 2008, I noted the decline in Saudi Arabian water production and I published an article in “The Oil Drum” titled “Peak Water in Saudi Arabia.” Using a simple version of the Hubbert model of resource depletion, I […]

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Phrasing the Question Right is the First Step to Find an Answer. How to Prevent Nuclear War

March 27, 2021

Phrasing the Question Right is the First Step to Find an Answer. How to Prevent Nuclear War Professor Bernard Lown died this February at 99. A great man by all means: Physician, cardiologist, professor at Harvard University, and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was the inventor of the defribrillator, the […]

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The Tunnel Vision Problem. How Mineral Depletion Became Completely Incomprehensible to the Public and Decision Makers Alike

March 18, 2021

The Tunnel Vision Problem. How Mineral Depletion Became Completely Incomprehensible to the Public and Decision Makers Alike Image source A few days ago, I sent a comment to a blog where the author had cited the “abiotic oil” hypothesis by Thomas Gold. He had read Gold’s book “The Deep, Hot Biosphere” and, not being an expert in the […]

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Dealing With Collapse: The Seneca Strategy

October 1, 2018

Dealing With Collapse: The Seneca Strategy The ruins of the Egyptian Pyramid of Meidum, perhaps the first large building to collapse in history (*). The collapse of large structures is part of a fascinating field of study that we may call “Collapsology.” I already wrote a book on this subject, titled “The Seneca Effect” (Springer […]

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