Category Archives: Experts

experts in energy, ecology, collapse, carrying capacity, biophysical and neoclassical economics, etc.

Automaticearth World View

Posted on April 14, 2014 by

Here is an updated distillation of our worldview. The Resurgence of Risk, which appeared at The Oil Drum Canada in August 2007 provides the background to how we came to be in our present predicament. It is by far the … Continue reading →

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Ashvin Pandurangi on social disorder and the military

Posted on April 14, 2014 by

The Debt-Dollar Discipline: Part III – Future Reorganization Dec 13, 2010. Ashvin Pandurangi [giant snips and rearrangement of material] Machines of societal oppression, whether they are equipment or computerized devices, cannot continue to function at their current rates of activity … Continue reading →

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Charles Hall on EROEI

Posted on April 1, 2014 by

[ For a full understanding of EROI, which Hall invented in 1973 as a way of evaluating which energy resources could best replace fossil fuels, see Hall’s latest book: Hall, Charles A.S. 2017. Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle … Continue reading →

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Gail Tverberg’s posts at Our Finite World

Posted on March 27, 2014 by

Gail, like Nicole Foss, writes about how the financial system and (energy) resources are intertwined at www.ourfiniteworld.com Gail connects the dots of energy, networks, collapse, the economy, supply chains and much more with great charts and graphs, and writes beautifully … Continue reading →

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Science editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt : Climate Change + other ecosystem damage = extinction

Posted on March 25, 2014 by

Climate Change Impacts Marcia McNutt is Editor-in-Chief of Science. 2 August 2013. Science: Vol. 341 no. 6145 p. 435 We are not just experiencing increases in greenhouse gas emissions but also eutrophication, pollution of the air and water, massive land … Continue reading →

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Twenty (Important) Concepts I Wasn’t Taught in Business School – Part I

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

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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William Rees: Culture and behavior: The human nature of unsustainability

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

Read the full report:»  Download the PDF (1 MB) William Rees.  (2011) The Unsustainability Conundrum. Post Carbon Institute In 1992 the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issued the following gloomy assessment of the prospects for civilization: We the undersigned, senior … Continue reading →

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Nature : Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture

Posted on March 3, 2014 by

Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture Charles Hall et al. 20 NOVEMBER 2003     NATURE. VOL 426 Most of the progress in human culture has required the exploitation of energy resources. About 100 years ago, the major source of energy … Continue reading →

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President Carter’s energy solutions 1977

Posted on March 1, 2014 by

This speech is one of the reasons he wasn’t elected.  Reagan’s “Morning in America” happy talk was far more appealing. Jimmy Carter delivered this televised speech on April 18, 1977. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_energy.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tPePpMxJaA  (1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlRVy7oZ58  (1979, bad audio) Tonight I want … Continue reading →

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Why neoclassical economics is wrong about energy (and just about everything else)

Posted on March 1, 2014 by

The Need to Reintegrate the Natural Sciences with Economics Neoclassical economics, the dominant form of economics today, has at least 3 fundamental flaws from the perspective of the natural sciences, but it is possible to develop a different, biophysical basis … Continue reading →

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