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Canada Heavy Oil Drops Below $35 As Rig Count Hits Record Low For January
Canada Heavy Oil Drops Below $35 As Rig Count Hits Record Low For January Think Texas and Pennsylvania have a problem with plunging oil prices, don’t look North. West Canada Select (Heavy) crude oil prices have collapsed to below $35 per barrel (the lowest since Feb 2009). This is a 60% plunge in the last 6 […]
Prepare for Property Prices to Fall in U.S. and Globally
Prepare for Property Prices to Fall in U.S. and Globally At the start of the New Year, there are increasing signs that the recovery seen in property prices in many cities in western countries — namely New York and other U.S. cities, and Dublin, London and other UK cities — is beginning to peter out. Many cities […]
Forecast 2015 — Life in the Breakdown Lane
Forecast 2015 — Life in the Breakdown Lane Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned. For connoisseurs of civilizational collapse, 2014 was merely annoying, a continued pile-up of over-investments in complexity with mounting diminishing returns, metastasizing fragility, and no satisfying resolution. So we enter 2015 with greater tensions […]
ClubOrlov: Are Americans Prepared For A Soviet Style Collapse?
ClubOrlov: Are Americans Prepared For A Soviet Style Collapse?. Last week I gave an interview to Barry at DR Escapes which is now up on Youtube. Please follow the link to listen to the interview. Barry’s notes on it are pasted in below. If the social and financial structure around you collapsed tomorrow, as it did for […]
The Archdruid Report: Waiting for the Sunrise
The Archdruid Report: Waiting for the Sunrise. By the time many of my readers get to this week’s essay here on The Archdruid Report, it will be Christmas Day. Here in America, that means that we’re finally most of the way through one of the year’s gaudiest orgies of pure vulgar greed, the holiday shopping season, […]
Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014
Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014. Worried about the shit hitting the fan on climate change and other major crises? Good. Because those crises prove that civilization is in the midst of a phase shift to new forms – and we’ve got the opportunity, right now, to ride the wave of five […]
Revolution, Part 1: The End of Growth? | Degrowth 2014
Revolution, Part 1: The End of Growth? | Degrowth 2014. New research suggests that the ongoing global economic crisis is symptomatic of a deeper crisis of industrial civilization’s relationship with nature. The continuation of the crisis, though, does not imply the end of the world – but rather is part of major phase shift to […]
What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication | The Climate Psychologist
What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication | The Climate Psychologist. Why are we morally obligated to fight climate change? Climate change is a crisis, and crises alter morality. Climate change is on track to cause the extinction of half the species on earth and, through a combination of droughts, famines, […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Suicide of Science
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Suicide of Science. Last week’s discussion of facts and values was not as much of a diversion from the main theme of the current sequence of posts here on The Archdruid Report as it may have seemed. Every human society likes to think that its core cultural and intellectual projects, whatever […]
Waking up to the Water – An ecocentric vision of human identity in the 21st Century | The Dark Mountain Project
Waking up to the Water – An ecocentric vision of human identity in the 21st Century | The Dark Mountain Project. Life is all about information. Whether you are a plant, a tree, a chimp or a human, all living things are continually influenced by information from the past. The more useful the information we […]
The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man
The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man. Jeff Thomas: What is your present residential/citizenship situation worldwide? Ron Holland: I’m an American citizen, living, working, and playing in Canada and elsewhere. Jeff: What countries have you previously lived or spent significant time in? Ron: I’m adopted, but I think I was born in North Carolina. I’ve lived in […]
The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer
The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer. Over the last eight and a half years, since I first began writing essays on The Archdruid Report, I’ve fielded a great many questions about what motivates this blog’s project. Some of those questions have been abusive, and some of them have been clueless; some of them have […]
Learning from Icarus
Learning from Icarus. A reflection on how making society more resilient may be worse than doing nothing at all. What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient? What if he had used bone and string and not just wax to bind them? Would this […]
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?. Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike? Well, you might want to start paying attention again. Three of the ten largest economies on the planet have already fallen […]
How To Get a Family of Four Prepped for The Coming Collapse – In The Quickest and Easiest Way Possible…
How To Get a Family of Four Prepped for The Coming Collapse – In The Quickest and Easiest Way Possible…. Because I gotten so many emails and questions about this article, I decided to repost it here today for all of out new readers. This morning as I was trying to catch up on my […]
