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Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you’ll find that he already knew that better than you

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you’ll find that he already knew that better than you Image from “Pexels” The UN program “The Ocean Decade” is starting this year. It is supposed to be ten years of research, assessment, and development of […]

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A Concise History of the Concept of “Hydrogen Economy”

A Concise History of the Concept of “Hydrogen Economy” The concept of “hydrogen economy” has a distinct “1960s” feeling. It is the idea of maintaining the lifestyle of the post-war period, with suburban homes, green lawns around them, two cars in every garage, and all that. The only difference would be that this world would […]

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Cataclysms and the Megamachine: Is History a Cycle or a Progression?

Cataclysms and the Megamachine: Is History a Cycle or a Progression? This image by the Tuscan painter Piero della Francesca exudes such power that it may truly blow your mind. Apart from the mastery of the composition, the perfection of the details, the fascination of the human figures, a canvas in the hands of a […]

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The Future of the Oceans: The two Souls of the Club of Rome

The Future of the Oceans: The two Souls of the Club of Rome I was very happy when I finally managed to find a copy of the old report to the Club of Rome, “The Future of the Oceans” by Elizabeth Mann Borgese. A book published in 1986, one of a long series of reports that the […]

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

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

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

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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The Death of Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the “Oil Sheik” who Understood Everything

The Death of Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the “Oil Sheik” who Understood Everything Ahmed Zaki Yamani, oil minister of Saudi Arabia until 1986, died in London last week. In memory of the “oil sheik,” I reproduce here a comment that appeared on the ASPO-Italia blog in 2006. The interview of Yamani by Oriana Fallaci in 1976 is a good example of […]

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Seneca and the Virus: Why does the Pandemic Grow and Decline?

Seneca and the Virus: Why does the Pandemic Grow and Decline? Seneca, the Roman philosopher, knew the term “virus,” that for him had the meaning of our term “poison.” But of course, he had no idea that a virus, intended in the modern sense, was a microscopic creature reproducing inside host cell. He also […]

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The End of the Megamachine: A Seneca Cliff, by any Other Name, Would Still be so Steep.

February 18, 2021

The End of the Megamachine: A Seneca Cliff, by any Other Name, Would Still be so Steep. Our civilization seems to be acutely aware of an impending decline that nowadays is rapidly taking the shape of a collapse. It is still officially denied, but the idea is there and it appears in those corners of […]

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Why the Hummingbird is the Most Dangerous Animal in the World

February 12, 2021

Why the Hummingbird is the Most Dangerous Animal in the World This is a revised translation of a post that I published in Italian a couple of years ago. The concept that the Hummingbird is NOT a good example of how to deal with the problems we have is also explained in some detail in […]

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Censorship: How the West is becoming more and more like the old Soviet Union

February 8, 2021

Censorship: How the West is becoming more and more like the old Soviet Union A message I received from Facebook on Jan 29, 2021. Five of my posts were deemed “spam” and erased. Some were somewhat “political” although non-partisan, but two were purely technical. That these posts were erased is an indication that censorship is […]

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The Ghost Shirt Rituals: Preparing for the End of the World

January 26, 2021

The Ghost Shirt Rituals: Preparing for the End of the World Ishi, (c. 1861 – 1916), the last member of the Native American Yahi people, photographed as he was in 1911 when he came out of the woods in California. How did the Yahi react when they saw that the Whites were going to exterminate them? […]

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Ugo Bardi’s The Universal Mining Machine

January 21, 2021

Ugo Bardi’s The Universal Mining Machine Preface. Below I’ve excerpted some of Ugo Bardi’s “The Universal Mining Machine” (24 January 2008 europe.theoildrum), but I’ve left a great deal out of this excellent article, I encourage you to read all of it if you have time. The biggest problem the world faces is “Peak Diesel”, which […]

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