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- 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?
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- 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
- Part 5 Raven Rock. Hidey holes for government and military officials to carry on democracy after nuclear war destroys the planet
Author Archives: energyskeptic
Sheriffs have too much power
Preface. In August 2017 President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio for disobeying a 2011 court order that barred his deputies from detaining people based on their immigration status. He was found guilty of continuing these traffic patrols for 18 months after … Continue reading
Posted in Drug wars and the prison system, Politics
Tagged Arizona, Authoritarian, drug war, ice, jail, Joe Arpaio, prison, Trump
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Book review “They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals”
Preface. This is a book review of Blake’s 2025 They Poisoned the World: Life & Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. This is a history of how the existential threat of PFAs and other forever chemicals came to be. … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Pollution, Extinction Books, Health, Planetary Boundaries, Pollution
Tagged 3M, cancer, DuPont, forever chemical, PFAS, planetary boundary, TFA, Trump
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John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
Preface. I first published this post in 2012 and have updated it today. Below I summarize a part of a 2012 article by John Howe on having one child … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, Overpopulation, Population
Tagged collapse, fertility, overpopulation, population
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Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
Projections of business as usual from Meadow’s et al “Limits to Growth” Preface. Clearly infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Returning the world to ecological health requires humans to live within ecological boundaries in a steady state economy. … Continue reading
Posted in Debt, Economic Decline, Investing advice, Other Experts
Tagged Daly, economics, limits to growth, steady state, Trainer
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Part 5 Raven Rock. Hidey holes for government and military officials to carry on democracy after nuclear war destroys the planet
Preface. This is the fifth part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. There are many doomsday shelters listed in this … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear War, Politics, War Books
Tagged bunker, government, nuclear war
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Become a Bison rancher
Preface. Far more buffalo can be grazed per acre than cattle and improve rather than destroy the ecosystem like cattle do. It’s likely wild bison will return to the Great Plains in the future. Already there are fewer people in … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Farming and Ranching
Tagged bison, buffalo, natural history
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Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
Preface. This is the fourth part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. Clearly if the U.S. government … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear War, Politics, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged bomb shelter, continuation of government, nuclear war
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Prisoners are treated worse than slaves in America
Source: It’s Time to Stop Using Inmates for Free Labor Preface. United States Prisons have 2.2 million in jail, 5 million on parole. How can Americans be so proud of themselves when our society has imprisoned one in a hundred … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption & Finance, Drug wars and the prison system
Tagged fees, jail, prison, slavery
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Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
This is the third part of a book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. This book stresses that a full … Continue reading
Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government’s plans to save civilians from nuclear war
Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. At the outset of the cold war, scientists proposed that nationalism had to go away to prevent nuclear wars, … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear War, Politics, Refugee Camps
Tagged bomb shelter, emergency plans, evacuation, FEMA, homeland security
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