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- What will future societies be like after fossil fuels are gone?
- Phosphate: All hopes for food and LFP batteries rest on Morocco with up to 85% of remaining reserves
- Floating Solar Farms add plastic, metal, PFAS & cut off light and oxygen to life below
- Peak Lithium
- Trump eliminates birth control abroad
- In a world without people, how long would NYC last?
- Network States to replace democratic governments with billionaire Silicon Valley CEO dictators & Republicans
- Why the kerogen in oil shale will never fill up your tank
- ‘The oil we eat’. Following the food chain back to iraq
- Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
- Admiral Rickover 1957: Energy Resources & Our Future
- The Green New Deal is not a solution for the real problem: Overshoot
- A transition from fossil fuels to renewables could take a century – if it ever happens
Author Archives: energyskeptic
What Happens When Weed Killers Stop Killing?
Robert F. Service. September 20, 2013. What Happens When Weed Killers Stop Killing? Science (341):1329 “U.S. farmers are heading for a crisis,” says Stephen Powles of the University of Western Australia, Crawley. Powles is an expert on herbicide resistance, a … Continue reading
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Dmitry Orlov Definancialisation, deglobalisation and relocalisation
Definancialisation, deglobalisation and relocalisation by Dmitry Orlov. Sep 2, 2011. Fleeing Vesuvius. Some excerpts: Collapse without preparation is a defeat. Collapse with preparation is an eccentricity. I concede that the choice is a difficult one: either we wait for circumstances … Continue reading
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Energy production requires a LOT of water
Energy and water – the real blue-chips August 20, 2011 by Nate Hagens and Kenneth Mulder Some excerpts from this article: The 2 most important natural resources are water and energy. In most cases, each is required to procure the … Continue reading
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On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy
On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy by David Koriwicz, 2011. Fleeing Vesuvius The systems on which we rely for our financial transactions, food, fuel and livelihoods are so inter-dependent that they are better regarded as … Continue reading
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Fleeing Vesuvius Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Enviromental Collapse
Fleeing Vesuvius. Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Enviromental Collapse This book has many ideas about what to do across many spheres. Escape routes: Fleeing Vesuvius – which way should we go? summarizes the “what to do” conclusions of … Continue reading
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Money – what is it?
The following are good articles to read about what money really is The supply of money in an energy-scarce world 2011. Richard Douthwaite. Summary of this article: Money has no value unless it can be exchanged for goods and services … Continue reading
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Twenty (Important) Concepts I Wasn’t Taught in Business School – Part I
Twenty (Important) Concepts I Wasn’t Taught in Business School – Part I by Nate Hagens September 20, 2013 theoildrum This article is full of great writing, charts, graphs, and illustrations, and explains quite well why nature and energy are our … Continue reading
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Society is fragile and vulnerable compared to 1930s, more prone to collapse
Oct 27, 2008. James Wesley, Rawles. The Depression of the 1930s–Why No Societal Collapse? survivalblog.com There are some substantial differences between our society in the early 21st Century, and America in the 1930s. With these differences, our society is now much … Continue reading
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Money versus Credit or Hyperinflation versus Hyperexpansion
I’ve put in several articles by Nicole Foss here on these topics. Resurgence of Risk – A Primer on the Develop(ed) Credit Crunch The Inverted Pyramid – Money versus Credit (or Hyperinflation versus Hyperexpansion) Money and credit are not the … Continue reading
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