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Category Archives: Collapsed & collapsing nations
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts
Preface. Venezuela is experiencing a double whammy of drought and low oil prices, which has lead to blackouts and inability to import food, ultimately due to their oil production peaking in 1997. The same fate awaits the U.S. So when … Continue reading
What collapse is like: Guadalajara Mexico
Preface. Collapse can be local rather than national. There are 5 states within Mexico the State Department warns not to travel to: Colima,Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas because violent crime, such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery, are widespread. There … Continue reading
Posted in Central & South America
Tagged collapse, crime, drugs, gangs, Guadalajara, kidnapping, mexico
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Book: John Perlin’s “A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization”
Preface. This contains excerpts from John Perlin’s “A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization”. It’s one of my favorite books about natural resources, exploring the role wood has played in the rise and fall of civilizations since they … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse of Civilizations, Collapsed, Deforestation, Life Before Oil, Limits To Growth, Peak Resources, Soil, Wood
Tagged civilization, collapse, deforestation, peak wood, wood
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Richard Heinberg: Energy and Authoritarianism
Preface. Heinberg wrote this a year ago. Brilliant and well structured, he conveys as much in this article as many books, and consolidates what must be many years of research. But Heinberg is not the only one to wonder if … Continue reading
Posted in Collapsed & collapsing nations, Politics, Richard Heinberg
Tagged Authoritarian, democracy, Dictator, heinberg
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The fall of the roman empire from plagues and climate change
Preface. This is a book review of “The Fate of Rome Climate Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper, which shows the brutal effects of plagues, climate change, and their joint interaction on the Roman Empire. But … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Pandemic, Roman Empire, Transportation
Tagged climate change, collapse, pandemic, plague, roman empire
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Lessons learned from how Cuba survived peak oil
[ After seeing the film “The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil” in 2006, I thought about how those lessons might apply to California agriculture. California grows about one-third of the U.S. food supply. Much of what follows … Continue reading
House hearing on Venezuela’s collapse March 2017
“The economy of Venezuela is largely based on the petroleum sector and manufacturing. Revenue from petroleum exports accounts for more than 50% of the country’s GDP and roughly 95% of total exports” (wiki). [ This is a summary of the … Continue reading
Posted in Central & South America, Energy Dependence, Mass migrations
Tagged collapse, house hearing, refugees, Venezuela
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House hearing: no solutions for North Korea in sight
[ This is a summary of the March 2017 house hearing titled “Pressuring North Korea–evaluating options”. First are some of the reasons why nothing is going to change –in my own wording–followed by congressional testimony. Then Chairman Yoho gives a … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Policy, North Korea
Tagged North Korea
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Pentagon video warns of unavoidable dystopian future for world’s biggest cities
[ I’ve found the military to be among the most climate-change peak-oil aware of any government institution (see my posts in experts/government/military here). Will be interesting to see how they use that awareness as decline unfolds (i.e. get the lion’s … Continue reading
Book review of “In order to live: A North Korean girl’s journey to freedom” by Yeonmi Park
[ Related posts: Inside North Korea’s Environmental Collapse Who Lives, Who dies in a never-ending energy crisis. Book review of Nothing to Envy. Ordinary Lives in North Korea North Korea: what happens to a country when the oil is cut … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse of Civilizations, North Korea
Tagged North Korea, survival
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