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Category Archives: Experts
Gail Tverberg: How this collapse differs from past collapses
Converging Energy Crises – And How our Current Situation Differs from the Past May 29, 2014 by Gail Tverberg At the Age of Limits Conference, I gave a talk called Converging Crises (PDF), talking about the crises facing us as we reach energy … Continue reading
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My Favorite James Howard Kunstler podcasts
You can subscribe to these on iTunes, or go to http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ I haven’t listened to all of his podcasts yet, these are the ones I’ve best liked so far (I’ve left a lot of good ones out): KunstlerCast 253 – … Continue reading
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Energy price increases and the 2008 financial crash: a practice run for what’s to come?
Hall, C.A.S., Groat, A. 2010. Losing Faith in Economics. Energy price increases and the 2008 financial crash: a practice run for what’s to come? The Corporate Examiner. 37: No. 4-5: 19-26. The summer of 2008 saw the third year in … Continue reading
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Charles Hall “Peak oil, declining EROI and the probability of degrowth”
Charles A. S. Hall . March 2010. Peak oil, declining EROI and the probability of degrowth. Second Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity March 26-29th 2010, Barcelona Peak oil is not some fuzzy academic concern but … Continue reading
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Charles A. S. Hall “The End of Faith Based Economics”
Charles Hall deserves the Nobel Prize in Economics for his book “Energy and the Wealth of Nations” and “Making World Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory” Gowdy, J., Hall, C., Klitgaard , K., and L. Krall. 2010. Losing … Continue reading
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Miscellaneous predictions
Prediction: there will be more large and Megacities in the Future [As fossil fuels decline, large and super-large “megacities”, with over 20 million people, will emerge as rural populations are forced to migrate to cities as gas stations close and … Continue reading
Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
University of Cambridge: Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Some of Britain’s finest minds are drawing up a “doomsday list” of catastrophic events that could devastate the world, pose a threat to civilization and might even lead to … Continue reading
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Steven Kopits – peak 2014-2016
29 April 2013. ASPO-USA Peak Oil Review. Commentary: Interview with Steven Kopits by Steve Andrews My summary/edited down version (the full version is below): Oil companies are cancelling projects because their costs are going up, yet the price of oil … Continue reading
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Reaching Oil Limits – New Paradigms are Needed by Gail Tverberg
Reaching Oil Limits – New Paradigms are Needed April 30, 2013 by Gail Tverberg Also see the April 21, 2013 column: Low Oil Prices Lead to Economic Peak Oil I have written in recent posts that oil limits are more complex than … Continue reading
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