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Category Archives: Ugo Bardi
Ugo Bardi: Collapse. Where can we find a safe refuge?
Preface. This is from the excellent blog Cassandralegacy.blogspot.com of Ugo Bardi’s posted here. I agree that a small town or city might be best, but only if near agriculture, most towns in the desert SouthWest of the U.S. are not … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi: “Energy Dominance,” what does it mean? Decoding a Fashionable Slogan
Preface. A very good article about energy and war, explains a lot about how the world really works. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan … Continue reading →
Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. I’ve reworded/shortened some of the wording at times from this excellent book. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals and War Minerals: Natural gas Minerals: Coal … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi predictions of the future from “Extracted”
Preface. This is just a small sampling of what Bardi thinks might happen post fossil fuels, mostly shortened and reworded. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals … Continue reading →
Minerals & Energy from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is a small section of Ugo Bardi’s excellent book “Extracted”. His most important observation is that: “The limits to mineral extraction are not limits of quantity; they are limits of energy. Extracting minerals takes energy, and the more … Continue reading →
Minerals and War from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is an extract from Ugo Bardi’s book “Extracted”. He makes the case that once we were able to forge metal weapons was when predatory nations began to invade one another to gain resources like coal to make more … Continue reading →
Minerals: Coal from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is just a small sampling of what Bardi thinks might happen post fossil fuels, mostly shortened and reworded. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals … Continue reading →
Mineral: Soil from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. Ugo Bardi’s book on minerals covers a wide-ranging territory, including soil, which is a mineral. In this section of the book he shows how humans have damaged the soil so much we have greatly overshot carrying capacity by lowering … Continue reading →
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Ugo Bardi on money, gold, and silver
What follows is from a really great book: Bardi, Ugo. 2014. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, … Continue reading →
After a collapse will people grow their own food or plunder others?
[ In this post Ugo Bardi looks at what will happen if society collapses and we have to suddenly go back to pre-industrial agriculture conditions. A back to the land movement where people grow their own food may not happen. … Continue reading →
Posted in Agriculture, Peak Food, Phosphorus, Scientists, Soil, Ugo Bardi
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Tagged agriculture, collapse, greenhouse
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