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- Excerpt from “The Geopolitics of Resource Wars”
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- Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
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- “More and More and More” one of the best books on energy ever written
- The staggering destruction of knowledge by Christians in the Roman Empire
- The staggering cost of Net Zero in Britain
- Why the R/P Reserves to Production ratio does not show when oil will run out
- Catton on Collapse “Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse”
- Book Review of Grain Brain: Extraordinary claim not backed up by evidence
- Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?
- What would happen if trucks stopped running?
- How to survive a nuclear winter
Author Archives: energyskeptic
Why World War III Could Start In Space Forbes
Why World War III Could Start In Space April 25, 2014. We are inextricably linked to hundreds of spacecraft racing around our planet. But near-Earth space is reaching a saturation point — a detail driven home in James Clay Moltz’s … Continue reading
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Gail Tverberg on why Oil Decline will be FAST
Will the decline in world oil supply be fast or slow? April 11, 2011 by Gail Tverberg Below are excerpts, read the link above to see all of this excellent article. Gail makes the case that the downslope of energy … Continue reading
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External costs of coal: probably over $500 billion per year in USA
Paul R. Epstein, et al. 2011. Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal in “Ecological Economics Reviews.” Robert Costanza, Karin Limburg & Ida Kubiszewski, Eds. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1219: 73–98. This paper tabulates a wide range of … Continue reading
Posted in Chemicals, CO2 and Methane, Coal, Hazardous Waste, Water Pollution
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Feedback Loops
1) Feedback loops that lead to oil prices drop below the cost of production Oil price rises or spikes from blockage of straits of hormuz, exports decline (ELM), Saudi Arabia and/or Middle Eastern high decline rates, China and India … Continue reading
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Iran succeeds in reducing birth rate without coercion
How Iran Became One of the World’s Most Futuristic Countries May 2, 2014 Annalee Newitz In Iran, during the 1980s conflict with Iraq, the Ayatollah Khomeini instituted new government regulations that encouraged women to have as many children as they … Continue reading
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Exporting Natural Gas from America
We don’t have the natural gas to export as you can see in Shale Oil and Gas Will Not Save Us. Nonetheless, it looks like we may be exporting it. Matt Simmons, a financier of very large energy projects thinks … Continue reading
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Other booklists
The Biophysical Economics Policy Center booklist from 1926 to present Books John Howe Astyk, S. (2008) “Depletion and Abundance, Life On the New Home Front.” Bartlett, A. (2004) “The Essential Exponential, For the Future of Our Planet.” Bligh, J. (2004) … Continue reading
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Chinese Economy Hits the Wall
June 10, 2012 The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy by John at Bronte Capital China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history. This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what makes … Continue reading
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California Shale Oil & Gas
US officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96% Sahagun, L. May 21, 2014. Los Angeles Times. Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated amount of recoverable oil buried in California’s vast Monterey Shale deposits, deflating … Continue reading
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Homer-Dixon Key findings on resources and war / violence
The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence Key Findings Abot 50 experts from 5 countries, developed a detailed set of conceptual tools for thinking about environmental scarcity and state capacity. Environmental scarcity has 3 sources: reduced resource … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Overshoot, Caused by Scarce Resources, Collapsed & collapsing nations, Scientists, Stages of, Violence, War
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