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The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025
The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Terracotta Pot Heater: A DIY Guide To Cozy Emergencies ‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure | US news | The Guardian Confronting devastating […]
A quarter of America could experience LONG BLACKOUTS this winter due to energy supply problems
A quarter of America could experience LONG BLACKOUTS this winter due to energy supply problems (Natural News) Large parts of North America could face long blackouts and other energy emergencies this winter as supplies of natural gas and coal begin to tighten. According to the latest seasonal assessment of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), a large […]
Physical Preps and Tools
Physical Preps and Tools This is the article about “stuff” you can buy. What we are facing is not going to be short term, and it’s not going to affect one small area. The duration is forever. It will affect literally everything, in progressively compounding ways. First we’ll go through ever-increasing, and unending, scarcity […]
#219. The unravelling begins
#219. The unravelling begins THE REALITY OF SCARCITY, THE SCARCITY OF REALITY In nineteenth-century England, pictures of great events and famous personages could be purchased “penny-plain or tuppence-coloured”. Where the world economy is concerned, the price of flattering colouration has soared into the trillions, but the value of a “penny-plain” view has never been higher. The […]
‘Post-Scarcity Anarchism’
‘Post-Scarcity Anarchism’ Murray Bookchin, first published 1971 View the YouTube video of this post ‘A Book in Five Minutes’ Index ‘The Meta-Blog’ Index ‘A Book in Five Minutes’, Podcast no.5: Download this recording as: An MP3 file; or an Ogg Vorbis file Topped by a statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, what remains of Banbury’s Corn […]
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’ Today I’m going to begin my cycle of posts commenting on, expanding and perhaps occasionally qualifying the analyses in my book A Small Farm Future. You have bought your copy by now, right? Ah well … far be it from me to tell you what to do […]
The Downsides of Cheap Abundance
The Downsides of Cheap Abundance Having “a lot” is not necessarily a good thing. (Photo: Public domain) In college, Economics 101 is often described as the social science discipline that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. MIT Economist Paul Samuelson liked to focus on scarcity, or more specifically, the allocation […]
Flowing Toward Abundance
Flowing Toward Abundance Over the last year or so, a neighbor has stocked up eight or ten piles of firewood in his yard, probably fifteen or twenty cords. What’s he going to do with it all? The house has a wood stove, but the family mostly uses the furnace, and burns wood only occasionally to […]
Yes, You Do Understand Economics
Yes, You Do Understand Economics The following conversation between my good friend Michael McKay and a friend of his illustrates that we all understand and use economic principles every day. In fact we could not function without understanding these basic economic principles. Pat Barron The other day I was having coffee with a new friend, a […]
What’s Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways to Get Ahead and Innovation
What’s Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways to Get Ahead and Innovation Conserving what is failing is not a path to stability. What’s in demand but scarce is valuable. This is one of those scale-invariant principles: businesses large and small want what’s scarce and in demand, because that’s what generates profits. What’s abundant but not in demand is […]
