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MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths
MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths A new MIT study indicates that retiring U.S. nuclear power plants could lead to an increase in burning fossil fuels to fill the energy gap, resulting in over 5,000 premature deaths due to increased air pollution. Nearly 20 percent of current electricity in the U.S. […]
Was the Club of Rome & MIT study right about soon-arriving resource shortages and the collapse of humanity? Part 2 of a 3 Part Series
Was the Club of Rome & MIT study right about soon-arriving resource shortages and the collapse of humanity? Part 2 of a 3 Part Series The book, Limits to Growth, published in 1972 was designed to publicize the findings of an MIT study funded by a group of European industrialists calling themselves the Club of Rome. Was this MIT collapse […]
Are You Ready for Collapse?
Are You Ready for Collapse? MIT analyzed it and KPMG updated it: economic collapse is nigh. © Skorzewiak / Shutterstock In 2019, Pierre Charbonnier penned an article for the French journal Revue du Crieur on the emerging trend known as collapsology. “Theories about the imminent collapse of industrial civilization are in vogue,” he writes in an […]
MIT Computer Model Predicts Dramatic Drop In Quality Of Life Around 2020 And The “End Of Civilization” Around 2040
MIT Computer Model Predicts Dramatic Drop In Quality Of Life Around 2020 And The “End Of Civilization” Around 2040 Is humanity approaching a major turning point? A computer model that was originally developed in 1973 by a group of scientists at MIT is warning that things are about to dramatically change. If the computer predictions […]
Is The EIA Overestimating The U.S. Shale Boom?
Is The EIA Overestimating The U.S. Shale Boom? The American shale boom may be overstated by the U.S. Energy Department, according to a new MIT study that suggests the agency may be over-attributing a rise in shale drilling to technological advances. “The EIA is assuming that productivity of individual wells will continue to rise as […]
How an economic theory helped mire the United States in Vietnam
How an economic theory helped mire the United States in Vietnam Rostow, front right, visited Vietnam in 1961. AP Photo/Fred Waters Questions of how the U.S. got mired in the Vietnam War and whether it was ultimately winnable have fascinated historians for half a century – most recently in Ken Burns’ new 18-hour documentary. A […]
They Have No Proof: MIT Professor Explains Why the Assad Gas Attack Was a Sham
They Have No Proof: MIT Professor Explains Why the Assad Gas Attack Was a Sham The mainstream narrative surrounding the sarin gas attack in Syria simply doesn’t add up. Even if you assume that Assad is nothing but a vile monster who would have no problem with gassing his own people, the attack still doesn’t […]
CERN Discovers New Particle Called The FERIR
CERN Discovers New Particle Called The FERIR This is an article by our friend Steve Keen, which was yanked by Forbes yesterday after just a few hours due to, according to Steve, their ‘parody policy’. I did some research and it turns out the Automatic Earth has no such policy. So I offered Steve to […]
Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years
Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on […]
Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science
Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science Guest essay by Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences (Emeritus) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the text of a lecture delivered on August 20, 2015 to the 48th Session: Erice International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies In many fields, governments have a monopoly on the […]
Noam Chomsky: How America’s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes
Noam Chomsky: How America’s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes The scholar talks about the seemingly innocuous elements of our socialization that promote one-world view over another. Tavis: Noam Chomsky is, of course, internationally recognized as one of the world’s most critically engaged public intellectuals. The MIT professor of linguistics […]
From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption
From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption American spy agencies have intentionally weakened digital security for many decades. This breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by – for example – creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through. The spy agencies […]
