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WANTED. Planet in crisis seeks leaders up to the job
WANTED. Planet in crisis seeks leaders up to the job When the essence of leadership tends in the direction of doing injury and inflicting harm, it is a collapse of leadership, for which we do not have a name. – Stephen C Rose, in the introduction to his book: The Coming Collapse of Leadership. Why is it that […]
Commentary on Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition
Commentary on Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition “Planetary boundaries” research constitutes an important advance in our ability to identify and quantify the components of global overshoot. Permit me to suggest that all presentations on planetary boundaries should include a discussion of Liebig’s Law—an ecological truism that can be boiled down to “a […]
Peak oil, ten or so years on
Peak oil, ten or so years on This blog began seven years and almost a thousand posts ago, and I thought it a good time to take stock. Since the blog itself was inspired by the “peak oil” movement, and since it’s been ten years, by some measures, since the peak, I wanted to assess […]
Looking for Some Answers
Looking for Some Answers A few months back John Michael Greer, over at the Archdruid Report, wrote an essay about how we might begin to tackle the huge mental and emotional burden of dealing with collapse. It was noted that, for the most part, the majority of people simply don’t want to think about or discuss the […]
“There Are Big, Big Problems” – The Shocker Crushing The Economy Revealed
“There Are Big, Big Problems” – The Shocker Crushing The Economy Revealed We are grateful to Alexander Giryavets at Dynamika Capital for pointing us to something which is far more troubling than even the Atlanta Fed’s collapse in Q1 GDP tracking: namely the latest Credit Managers Index for the month of March which “deteriorated significantly over the last two months […]
The Six Too Big To Fail Banks In The U.S. Have 278 TRILLION Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
The Six Too Big To Fail Banks In The U.S. Have 278 TRILLION Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives The very same people that caused the last economic crisis have created a 278 TRILLION dollar derivatives time bomb that could go off at any moment. When this absolutely colossal bubble does implode, we are going to be faced […]
COLLAPSE PHENOMENON: Michael Ruppert’s Last Book, First Starring Film Role, and Ascendancy to the National Stage in 2009
COLLAPSE PHENOMENON: Michael Ruppert’s Last Book, First Starring Film Role, and Ascendancy to the National Stage in 2009 Michael C. Ruppert, who died one year ago this week, was an icon of the peak oil and sustainability movements. A narcotics cop turned independent journalist, he distinguished himself as a determined and intrepid follower of the truth, […]
This Could Sink Banks in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy
This Could Sink Banks in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy Not that much has changed in Spain since the climax of the debt crisis during which its collapsing banks were bailed out. Some of them were recombined into a bank with a new name – Bankia – and sold to the public via an IPO […]
The Law of Diminishing Returns
The Law of Diminishing Returns Part one of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Is modern society hitting our defining moment, the point of diminishing returns? In this brand new short video released today, Richard Heinberg explores how — in our economy, the environment, and energy production — we may well be. When […]
5 Charts Which Show That The Next Economic Crash Is Dead Ahead
5 Charts Which Show That The Next Economic Crash Is Dead Ahead When an economic crisis is coming, there are usually certain indicators that appear in advance. For example, commodity prices usually start to plunge before a recession begins. And as you can see from the Bloomberg Commodity Indexwhich you can find right here, this […]
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis If you believe that ignorance is bliss, you might not want to read this article. I am going to dispel the notion that there has been any sort of “economic recovery”, and I am going to show that we […]
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 3
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 3 In the previous installments of this series, we discussed the hidden and often unspoken crisis brewing within the employment market, as well as in personal debt. The primary consequence being a collapse in overall consumer demand, something which we are at this […]
Venezuela To Start Fingerprinting Supermarket Shoppers
Venezuela To Start Fingerprinting Supermarket Shoppers Back in August, when we wrote about the latest instance of trouble in Maduro’s socialist paradise, we cautioned that as a result of the economic collapse in the Latin American nation (and this was even before the plunge in crude made the “paradise” into the 9th circle of hell), Venezuelans soon may […]
The Art of Blending in: 5 Tips from a Counterintelligence Special Agent
The Art of Blending in: 5 Tips from a Counterintelligence Special Agent As some of you know, before I was a blogger, I spent many years as a Counterintelligence Agent, training and working with some of the best government agents and Special Forces personnel in the world. Most of that involved either conducting surveillance or counter-surveillance […]
