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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Antecedents — too much oil needed to make wind, solar, batteries, and so on
Fossil fuels are used in every step of every process AND as a component of material objects from plastics to medicine and 500,000 other products. Any kind of alternative energy you care to name requires fossil fuels from the very … Continue reading
Posted in Antecedents, Energy
Tagged alternative energy, antecedents, energy, fossil fuels
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Statistics. Michael Snyder’s “75 economic numbers from 2012″
Michael Snyder. 21 Dec 2012. 75 economic numbers from 2012 that are almost too crazy to believe. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com #1 In December 2008, 31.6 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, a new all-time record of 47.7 million Americans are on … Continue reading
ASPO 2012 Conference: What I found Interesting
A picture is worth a thousand words — you may want to scroll through these presentations yourself. ASPO 2012 slide presentations Robert L. Hirsch. Peak Oil. Some Knowns & Unknowns. Slide 6: Peak oil isn’t yet impacting oil prices — … Continue reading
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Wind and Solar Power Require MORE Fossil Fuels
Ralph Vartabedian. 9 Dec 2012. Rise in renewable energy will require more use of fossil fuels. Los Angeles Times. As California attempts to reach the goal of producing one-third of its electricity from wind and solar sources by 2020, more … Continue reading
Posted in Solar, Wind
Tagged more fossil fuel, power plants, problems with solar power, problems with wind power, solar, wind
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Birth Control Impossible due to Religion, they prefer you die of starvation, disease, and war
What a horror: so-called “Pro-Life” religions force their nasty beliefs on a woman’s right to control her own destiny and a civilizations ability to decently house and feed citizens, dooming societies of the future crazed from hunger and disease brought … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, What to do
Tagged birth control, collapse, disease, hunger, pro-life, religion, starvation, war, women's right to choose
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Overpopulation is destroying the planet — China for example
Kenneth R. Weiss. July 22, 2012. China’s population and economy are a double whammy for the world China’s ‘one-child’ policy has slowed population growth and brought prosperity — but it couldn’t avert massive damage to the environment. Los Angeles Times. … Continue reading
Worldwide hunger and starvation
Kenneth R. Weiss. 22 July 2012. As the world’s population grows, hunger persists on a massive scale. Nearly 1 billion people are malnourished, and a child dies of hunger every 11 seconds. Los Angeles Times series “Beyond 7 billion”. … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Climate Change, Hunger, Overpopulation, Starvation
Tagged climate change, deforestation, desert, disease, drought, hunger, overpopulation, pests, starvation
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Overpopulation will lead to Uprisings, Social Chaos, and Revolutions
Kenneth R. Weiss. July 22, 2012. Runaway population growth often fuels youth-driven uprisings. In fast-growing countries, many young men are unable to find employment or pay dowries. Frustrated ambitions can be an explosive force — and a reason for … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Social Uprising
Tagged birth control, overpopulation, population, revolution, social unrest
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Dan Allen: When collapse happens, help it crash faster
What Dan Allen writes below is what many scientists and ecological activists are thinking and saying privately. Read his entire post at resilience.org for context, since this slice of the article seems rather harsh and cruel from this small excerpt. … Continue reading
Posted in Demand Destruction, What to do
Tagged peak oil, rapid collapse, what you can do
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Robert Hirsch: Peak Transportation Fuel describes problem better than peak oil
Excerpts below are from Identifying the “Oil” We’re Most Worried About, 3 Dec 2012 ASPO Peak Oil Review. Hirsch says the tragedies that the Peak Oil community is concerned about will begin when transportation fuel declines, and that this concept … Continue reading