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The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025
The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Forests, Water, and Climate: Time for Re-Conceptualization A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness – resilience Modern Civilization is Proving to be a Very Fragile Thing The Reductionist Delusion: How We Got Climate […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVII–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVII–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 3 In attempting to bolster the mass rollout of supposed ‘clean/green/sustainable’ ‘renewable’ energy technologies (and the necessary ‘investments’, particularly in terms of finite resources–especially energy), the marketers of these industrial products and their enthusiastic supporters have created and pushed a narrative/mythos […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCV–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCV–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 1 A recent post on environmentalism as a meme states that ‘renewable’ energy supporters hold that these technologies solve some significant problems that humanity faces. ‘Renewable’ energy enthusiasts claim the following: wars are not created as a result of them; they fight pollution; and […]
The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024
The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024 The Federal Reserve and the Regime Are One and the Same | Mises Institute Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches. “There is Something being Concocted in the Dens of Power” – Global Research We’re Told This Is Progress, But It’s Actually Anti-Progress The Long Shadow of the Tar Sands Catastrophic Crop […]
A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle
A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle We all want solutions to the world’s many crises but do we understand the underlying problems? Everything in nature, including human society, relies on energy for production, consumption, recycling, and sustainability. Therefore, to understand things, we must first examine how energy is turned into work and […]
Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time
Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to “pay your fair share” of taxes. It turns out he’s right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn’t Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley or the Wall Street financial company “fat cats” or […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII–Differing Opinions on ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII October 19, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Differing Opinions on ‘Renewables’ While I work on a longer (perhaps several part) contemplation regarding the myth of infinite growth on a finite planet that infiltrates and dominates many mainstream narratives — especially economic in nature — I thought I would share a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXI–The Pursuit Of ‘Renewables’: Putting Us Further Into Ecological Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXI October 10, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Pursuit Of ‘Renewables’: Putting Us Further Into Ecological Overshoot Today’s very brief contemplation has been prompted by a couple of recent articles/posts (see links below) by thinkers/writers whose works/ideas I have followed for some time and respect greatly — but […]
Stragedy Unfolds
Stragedy Unfolds A bitter rant on Europe’s self-implosion The writing is on the wall, but who cares. Photo by Phil Goodwin on Unsplash It is now the second time I’m having afterthoughts upon publishing an article. After writing about how Europe’s well intended but disastrously planned environmental initiative puts us right on track to a […]
Unsustainable Goose Chases
Unsustainable Goose Chases As we look toward the uncertain future, it may occur to some among us that we’ll need energy on Mars. How are we going to get it? Presumably Mars has no fossil fuels—although on the plus side its atmosphere is already 95% CO2, compared to Earth’s 0.04%, so they’re likely to be […]
Telling the Truth About Our Future
Telling the Truth About Our Future Renewable energy is a poor substitute for fossil fuels. That’s because renewables are a diffuse form of energy and produce power only about one-third of the time. That doesn’t stop renewable energy true-believers from trying to bend the laws of physics to tell a story that’s not true. EROI** (energy […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVIII–Magic Permeates Our Thinking About ‘Solutions’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVIII Knossos, Greece (1993). Photo by author. Magic Permeates Our Thinking About ‘Solutions’ A few brief Facebook conversations I have had the past couple of days while I work on a longer Contemplation regarding binary thinking, particularly as it applies to sociopolitics. The first shared this article featuring a picture of a massive […]
Renewables Are Not the Cheapest Form of Power
Renewables Are Not the Cheapest Form of Power The CEO of TotalEnergies believes that the renewable transition will lead to higher—not lower—energy prices. That’s a very different view from the popular belief that renewable energy prices are falling so fast that electric power will become ever-cheaper. “We think that fundamentally this energy transition will mean […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVI–Confessions Of A Fossil Fuel Shill
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Confessions Of A Fossil Fuel Shill For anyone who has been following my writing over the past couple of years, you will know that I have been critical of non-renewable, renewable energy-harvesting technologies (aka ‘renewables’) and the ‘marketing’ that surrounds them[1]. My critiques are usually focused upon […]
