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Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security

December 13, 2018

Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security Image: Camilla MP. What is Energy Security? What does it mean for a society to have “energy security”? Although there are more than forty different definitions of the concept, they all share the fundamental idea that energy supply should always meet energy demand. This also implies […]

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America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost

November 1, 2018

America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost In the first two essays in this sequence, I sketched out the framework of Oswald Spengler’s vision of the process by which great cultures rise, work through their possibilities, and fossilize once those possibilities have been pushed as far as they can go. That vision of history pretty reliably […]

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Presuming to Care about the Earth

September 28, 2015

Presuming to Care about the Earth Photo: Mihnea Stanciu/Flickr CC. There are times that I find myself wandering pensively in the woods, asking aloud, “so how should I presume?” I just read about the land sinking — up to thirteen inches a year in some places — in the Central Valley of California. I also just read about there being […]

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Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement (Part 1)

July 31, 2015

Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement (Part 1) Is degrowth only conceivable in the context of “oversaturated” industrial societies while the global “South” remains dependent on growth? In two installments, this article questions such assumptions. In this first part it introduces positions critical of development which refuse to adopt the Western model of prosperity; […]

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The Mariner’s Rule

January 22, 2015

The Mariner’s Rule One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all. It’s a valid question, and it deserves a serious answer. Now of course not […]

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A Camp Amid the Ruins

January 8, 2015

A Camp Amid the Ruins Well, the Fates were apparently listening last week. As I write this, stock markets around the world are lurching through what might just be the opening moves of the Crash of 2015, whipsawed by further plunges in the price of oil and a range of other bad economic news; amid […]

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