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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIII–Biophysical Economics
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIII–Biophysical Economics Today’s post is courtesy of a fellow traveller (Schuyler Hupp) on the collapse road that I’ve had the pleasure of communicating with and learning from for a number of years via a mutual Facebook Group (Peak Oil). I present a recent post of his to this Peak Oil FB group […]
The Bulletin: March 20-26, 2025
The Bulletin: March 20-26, 2025 Threats to U.S. Security: Aging Infrastructure, Fragile Systems, and Information Warfare The Planet Can’t Afford AI – by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume The Market Will Crash – Here’s When Here is how the government will force you to enlist in the army Sahara flooding, Amazon tributaries drying, warming tipping over 1.5°C—2024 […]
What War in Ukraine Means for Energy and Money
What War in Ukraine Means for Energy and Money
Meat Prices on the Rise
Meat Prices on the Rise (Image from Statistics Canada: Prices for meat products rise year over year in September) Canada’s CPI rose 4.4% YoY this September, according to Statistics Canada. Every major sector saw gains, but meat prices spiked 9.5%, marking the fastest pace of growth since April 2015. Canada’s Food Price Report for 2021, released […]
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux Giorgione The Tempest 1508“Mankind’s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that’s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from […]
un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial
un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial Six years ago this essay launched and defined un-Denial.com. I’m featuring it on the home page to celebrate 500 posts. This is the story of the two most important things that enabled the success and possible demise of humans: energy and denial. Simple single cell (prokaryotic) life emerges as a gradual […]
Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire
Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire (Natural News) California issued its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years last week as the state’s grid operator tried to keep the power system from complete collapse in the midst of a heat wave, and some are pointing out that […]
Energy vs DNA
Energy vs DNA Hmm, energy. Is it a good idea I be drawn back into the subject? We used to do so much on the topic, Nicole Foss and I, in the first years of The Automatic Earth, and before that at the brilliant Oil Drum, where we had all those equally brilliant oil professionals […]
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise I want to be optimistic about the future. I really do. But there’s virtually no chance of the world transitioning gently to an alternative energy-powered future. These Are The ‘Good Old Days’ I’m often asked where I stand on wind, solar and […]
Renewables Are Dead
Renewables Are Dead If I’ve said once that those among us who tout renewable energy should pay more attention to the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, I must have said it a hundred times. But I hardly ever get the impression that people understand why. And it seems so obvious. A quote I often use from […]
Living With Integrity
Living With Integrity It’s time to choose a new direction. Every so often, our work in the premium side of PeakProsperity.com is deemed so important that our paying subscribers request we share it with the general public. Last week’s ‘Off The Cuff’ podcast received so many of these requests that we are releasing it to […]
David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers’ Apology
David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers’ Apology There are days, though all too scarce, when very nice surprises come my way. Case in point: yesterday I received a mail from David Holmgren after a long period of radio silence. Australia’s David is one of the fathers of permaculture, along with Bill Mollison, for those few who […]
Bethany McLean: Saudi America
Bethany McLean: Saudi America The truth about fracking & how it’s changing the world by Adam TaggartFriday, March 1, 2019, 3:37 PM For years now we’ve been covering the false promise of the American shale oil “miracle”. Yes, it has extracted a lot more oil out of American soil that most thought possible. But at an […]
Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet
Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet Dr. D: Eat less meat to save the planet – report (1)The new diet that could save the planet (2)What to eat to save the planet: Report urges ‘radical changes’ to world’s diet – less meat, more veggies (3) These headlines, likely sourced from a recent article from “The Lancet” (4) are a regular feature of our time, in […]
Art Berman: Exposing The False Promise Of Shale Oil
Art Berman: Exposing The False Promise Of Shale Oil Estimates of recoverable oil are proving wildly wrong Art Berman, geological consultant with over 37 years experience in petroleum exploration and production, returns to the podcast this week to debunk much of the hopium currently surrounding America’s shale oil output. Because the US is pinning huge […]
