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The Bulletin: October 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: October 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. EIA Data Shows Record U.S. Oil Output After Major Upward Revision | OilPrice.com Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – Stockholm Resilience Centre How To Keep Warm If You’re Temporarily Homeless […]
World’s biggest economies pumping billions into fossil fuels in poor nations
World’s biggest economies pumping billions into fossil fuels in poor nations G20 countries spent $142bn in three years to expand operations despite a G7 pledge to stop doing so, study finds The world’s biggest economies have continued to finance the expansion of fossil fuels in poor countries to the tune of billions of dollars, despite […]
The #1 Reason I Became A Doomer
The #1 Reason I Became A Doomer We’re not doomed because of climate change, resource depletion, or biodiversity loss. We’re doomed because human nature made those things inevitable. There are many reasons I became a doomer. Climate change is accelerating and governments aren’t taking it seriously. The sixth mass extinction event is well underway and most people don’t care. […]
The Delusions of Davos and Dubai – Part Three: Alternatives to Wind & Solar Energy
The Delusions of Davos and Dubai – Part Three: Alternatives to Wind & Solar Energy Can humanity eventually overcome its reliance on fossil fuel? The answer to that is certainly yes in the very long run, but an emphatic no in the next 25 years. If the delusional but dead serious demands coming out of […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIII–We Are Not Prepared For Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIII Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author We Are Not Prepared For Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry To be or not to be, that is the question… Prince Hamlet’s well-known soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is apropos to a question I have been pondering: should we shut down immediately the […]
Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil
Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil Aerial View of Haifa oil refineries. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed. It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. To my left I spotted a man, grim-faced and […]
Ten Things that Change without Fossil Fuels
Ten Things that Change without Fossil Fuels It is now popular to talk about leaving fossil fuels to prevent climate change. Pretty much the same result occurs if we run short of fossil fuels: We lose fossil fuels, but it is because we cannot extract them. Practically no one tells us about the extent to […]
It’s Not About Saving the Planet, It’s the Big Daddy We Need To Look For
It’s Not About Saving the Planet, It’s the Big Daddy We Need To Look For Don’t tell Greta, but the hits keep coming for wind projects… For perspective, $4 billion equals about 28 billion DKK. Orsted’s equity is 76 billion DKK, so that $4 billion hit is equivalent to some 37% of its market cap. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIX–Fossil Fuels: Contributing to Complexity and Ecological Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIX June 7, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Fossil Fuels: Contributing to Complexity and Ecological Overshoot Andrew Nikiforuk is an author and contributing editor of the online media site The Tyee. He has been writing about the oil and gas industry for close to 20 years. In his most recent […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX–Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX June 9, 2021 Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking Today’s contemplation is once again generated by way of an article from the online media site The Tyee. It’s topic is the city of Vancouver’s (British Columbia, Canada) attempts to require ‘electrification’ of all […]
What alternatives are there REALLY for fossil fuel use? – Dialogue with Mark Taylor
What alternatives are there REALLY for fossil fuel use? – Dialogue with Mark Taylor Hint: it’s not solar John: “What alternative to carbon-based fuels do you suggest, if not solar? Since the WPP is engaging in the process of policy development, we need one for transitioning away from carbon-based fuels. Any ideas?” Mark:”First, to set […]
Climate Change Has Come Full Circle
Climate Change Has Come Full Circle Photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash Our modern technological civilization was born out of fossil fuels. Coal. Oil. Natural gas. To this very day most of our industry, transportation and agriculture is still powered by these incredibly dense, portable, storable sources of energy. There is a fly in the ointment though: the […]
Renewables: Plug & Pray?
Renewables: Plug & Pray? Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash We are made to believe by PR articles and mainstream media pundits that “renewables” are just plug and play. Like computer screens. That all we need to do is to shut down old fossil fuel power plants and replace them with wind and solar. We are […]
The End Of Fossil Fuels Will Be The End Of Modern Capitalism
The End Of Fossil Fuels Will Be The End Of Modern Capitalism That which is unsustainable can not be sustained Ed Yourdon from New York City via Wikimedia Commons None of us are ready for the chaos of the we are stoking, caused by the rapacious growth of what Kurt Vonnegut Jr. referred to as […]
A Deep Dive Into the Future
A Deep Dive Into the Future Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash Thinking more than a couple of days ahead is not one of humankind’s greatest strengths, especially not beyond the scale and scope of our immediate surroundings. In the rare occasion when thinking of this type does happen, however, it usually takes two directions: the future will […]
