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- 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
- What is the plan for an electric grid outage that lasts for months?
- Where to be? Links to Superfund, hazardous waste and other toxic sites in U.S.
- Why methanol cannot replace petroleum in shipping
- Why is everyone afraid of AI taking over? It makes stuff up!
- Do you want to eat, drink, or fly?
Monthly Archives: November 2012
How to find a good Property insurance company
What is a good homeowners insurance company? Solvent enough to pay your claim in a large disaster such as a fire or earthquake, and willing to pay you a reasonable amount of money in timely manner. After the 2008 financial … Continue reading
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David Korowicz: Tipping point near-term systemic implications of a Peak in global Oil production
[ This is the most brilliant and succinct paper I’ve ever seen that explains the interdependencies of our economic, energy, infrastructure, food, and other systems. It is so well-written that you ought to read the entire paper, my summary can’t … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Crash Coming Soon, David Korowicz, Interdependencies, Organizations
Tagged collapse, investment, peakoil
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Tariel Mórrígan: Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization.
Morrigan, Tariel. Oct 2010. Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization. The current peak oil Crisis. University of California, Santa Barbara. Peak oil is happening now. The era of cheap and abundant oil is over. • Global … Continue reading
Posted in Scientists
Tagged collapse, peak coal, peak energy, peak uranium, predictions, Tariel Mórrígan
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Stock Market will Crash when Investors realize Peak Oil is Real
David Fridley, an expert on oil economics, worked under Chu. In an interview given in 2009, Fridley claims, “[Chu] was my boss…He knows all about peak oil, but he can’t talk about it. If the government announced that peak oil … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Instability
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Nate Hagens rebuttal of Bill McKibbens “Politics: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”
Timeline: die-off: event odds low 10-15% next 10-20 years, though higher after that (1 Dec 2012). End-of-growth realized by public: 90% next few years, 99% in 5-7 years (1 Dec 2012) 17 Oct 2012 Rebuttal of Bill McKibbens 19 July … Continue reading
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Corporate Welfare
Big business sets the agenda for what legislation our elected officials spend their time on at the national, state, and local levels, and even write the legislation and pass it on via lobbyists. What ever your issue is, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, Corruption & Finance
Tagged collapse, corporate welfare
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Drought cost more than hurricane in 2012
Jeff Masters. 16 Nov 2012. Lessons from 2012: Droughts, not Hurricanes, are the Greater Danger. wunderground.com The colossal devastation and loss of life wrought by Hurricane Sandy makes the storm one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history. The storm … Continue reading
Prison System – 2.2 million in jail, 5 million on parole
How can Americans be so proud of themselves when our society has imprisoned one in a hundred people, more than any other nation on earth? And many of them subjected to the most cruel kind of torture — isolation — … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption & Finance, Drug wars and the prison system
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Fungi threatens crops feeding billions of people
Preface. And the World Health Organization (2022) released a list of health threatening fungi. In California and the southwest more people are catching valley fever, oaks are dying sudden oak death (SOD) from a fungus. Some scientists expect that climate … Continue reading
Posted in Peak Food
Tagged agriculture, fungi, pests
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China Water issues
China is one of a few and often only place making products from computers to furniture, as well as the components of most products, so if China collapses, the ripple effects will be felt elsewhere. On the other hand, if … Continue reading
Posted in Water Infrastructure
Tagged china, water issues, water problems
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