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- 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
- The insect apocalypse will kill billions more people than climate change
- The war on drugs. A book review of “Chasing the scream”
- Peak crude oil did not happen in 2018. But we are running out of time
- Sheriffs have too much power
- Book review “They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals”
- John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
- Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
Author Archives: energyskeptic
Hurricane Vulnerable Gulf area Supplies Over Half our oil, One-third of our Natural Gas
Energy infrastructure is very vulnerable to hurricanes in the gulf region, which: Produce or imports 60% of the country’s supply of crude oil Supplies a third of U.S. natural gas supplies Generates half of the United States refined products supplies … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Infrastructure, Infrastructure & Collapse
Tagged energy infrastructure, gulf, hurricane, natural gas, oil, pipelines
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Ozone Loss from Storms Increases Skin Cancer, Crop Damage
James G. Anderson, et al. 26 Jul 2012. UV Dosage Levels in Summer: Increased Risk of Ozone Loss from Convectively Injected Water Vapor. Science. Climate change is increasing the number and severity of storms, which is depleting the ozone layer … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, crop damage, crop DNA, global warming, ozone loss, skin cancer
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How to Buy Homeowners Insurance #3 Is the Insurance Company Financially Strong?
After the 2008 financial crash, many insurance company ratings went down. We’re far from the end of the financial crash, it’s been postponed by all the government spending and bank bailouts, but nothing has changed, much has grown worse. So … Continue reading
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How to Buy Homeowners Insurance #1 Determine the Value of Your Home
The odds are that your house is grossly under-insured. According to United Policyholders surveys, two-thirds of Californians who lose homes in wildfires are under-insured an average of more than $200,000. This is because the insurance companies don’t sell the necessary … Continue reading
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How to Buy Homeowners Insurance – Introduction
After the final financial crash, insurance may not be available for a while. Most if not all insurance companies will be broke. But meanwhile, you can’t afford to have major debt. In a deflation, being in debt is catastrophic, you … Continue reading
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$40 billion cost when levee system fails in California’s delta
Scientists estimate this would cost $40 billion dollars. 23 million Californians will have no drinking water. Up to 1 million acres of some of the best, most productive farmland in the world will disappear forever as salt water permeates the … Continue reading
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What Will Trigger the Financial Crash?
#1 An Energy Crisis My number one vote for when the financial system worldwide collapses is when the energy shortages begin, sometime between now and the next 5 years. Even if the depression grows worse meanwhile, that would only slow … Continue reading
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Tagged economic collapse
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USA: 47th in life expectancy despite most money spent & thousands die from lack of health care
Preface. In the USA, vote for democrats, Republicans are openly saying they want to end SSN and Medicare. Health care and insurance will decline and vanish as collapse accelerates from financial depressions caused by energy decline, so if you’ve been … Continue reading
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Rich nations grabbing land from poor nations
[ There are so many nations grabbing land from other nations that I gave up trying to summarize this excellent book and just used a few paragraphs from NewScientist. Having to import food is a clear sign of being over … Continue reading
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Magnetic Reversal could knock out power grids and communication systems
Peter Olson and Renaud Deguen. 1 Jul 2012. Eccentricity of the geomagnetic dipole caused by lopsided inner core growth. Nature Geoscience 5, 565–569 Lopsided growth of the Earth’s core could explain why its magnetic field reverses direction every few thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Grid & EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
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