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The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026
The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Requiem For An Oil Glut | Art Berman Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To) Life Before Petroleum – by Ugo Bardi – Chimeras […]
The Bulletin: February 4-10, 2026
The Bulletin: February 4-10, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Beyond The Appearances. – by Aurelien Nuclear survival advice they never broadcast – by Craig How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe’s Industrial Decline Biology Lessons […]
The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world Should We Be Talking About Collapse This Is What It Looks Like When Shit Hits The Fan Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance – […]
The Bulletin: November 26-December 2, 2025
The Bulletin: November 26-December 2, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. EU Moves to End Private Messaging with Chat Control 2.0 ‘Venezuela, for the American Oil Companies, Will Be a Field Day,’ Says US Lawmaker Pushing Invasion | Common Dreams People are […]
The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025
The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Thermodynamic drag It’s Already Started: The Oil Crisis They Said Would Never Happen As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn – Inside Climate News From Fear to […]
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 […]
The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease – Inside Climate News Book Review: Small is Beautiful – by Shane […]
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett Collapse and Recovery What’s the relationship between our energy consumption, our material footprint and our economies? Tim Garrett and I come to refer to these as “the holy trinity”. Tim is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, and over two years ago, he joined me […]
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
Dr Sid Smith Rocks the Boat on Nature Bats Last
Dr Sid Smith Rocks the Boat on Nature Bats Last The August 2020 episode of Nature Bats Last featured an excellent discussion with Dr Sid Smith, the episode is embedded here: Dr Smith is former co-chair and current secretary of the Green Party of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he is a writer and […]
More on the thermodynamic black hole…
More on the thermodynamic black hole… I recently wrote about the thermodynamic black hole; articles about ERoEI keep popping up in my in tray that truly baffle me…… As Alice Friedemann told Chris Martenson in the podcast I discussed in the aforementioned blog post, “everyone disagrees on what to leave in or out of their ERoEI […]
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation Abstract Climate change has become intertwined with the global economy. Here, we describe the contribution of inertia to future trends. Drawing from thermodynamic principles, and using 38 years of available statistics between 1980 to 2017, we […]
Energy and Institution Size
Energy and Institution Size This week was a first for me. I participated in an academic conference that was entirely online. The conference — called Thermodynamics 2.0 — was designed to connect the natural and social sciences. It was a fitting place to discuss my research, and there were many interesting (virtual) talks. I’ve posted here a […]
Renewables Are Dead
Renewables Are Dead If I’ve said once that those among us who tout renewable energy should pay more attention to the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, I must have said it a hundred times. But I hardly ever get the impression that people understand why. And it seems so obvious. A quote I often use from […]
