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- Oil choke points vulnerable to war, chaos, terrorism, accidents, & piracy
- Nuclear weapons must be reduced or we risk nuclear winter
- Fusion is already running out of fuel
- Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018
- Wood, the fuel of preindustrial societies, is half of EU renewable energy
- Rare Earth updates: recent research on why complex & intelligent life are rare in the Universe
- Book review of “Chip War” and the Fragility of microchips
- The tremendous material and energy toll of the digital economy
- Nuclear attack on U.S. could kill 90% of Americans
- What percent of Americans are rational?
- Book review of Lights Out. A Cyberattack. A Nation Unprepared. Surviving the Aftermath
- Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel
- Book review of “Prime Movers of Globalization: the History & Impact of Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines”
- Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse”
- Tesla Semi trucks hauling corn chips
Monthly Archives: August 2012
$40 billion cost when levee system fails in California’s delta
Scientists estimate this would cost $40 billion dollars. 23 million Californians will have no drinking water. Up to 1 million acres of some of the best, most productive farmland in the world will disappear forever as salt water permeates the … Continue reading
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What Will Trigger the Financial Crash?
#1 An Energy Crisis My number one vote for when the financial system worldwide collapses is when the energy shortages begin, sometime between now and the next 5 years. Even if the depression grows worse meanwhile, that would only slow … Continue reading
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USA: 47th in life expectancy despite most money spent & thousands die from lack of health care
Preface. In the USA, vote for democrats, Republicans are openly saying they want to end SSN and Medicare. Health care and insurance will decline and vanish as collapse accelerates from financial depressions caused by energy decline, so if you’ve been … Continue reading
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