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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 still 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
- Become a Bison rancher
- Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
- Prisoners are treated worse than slaves in America
- Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
- Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government’s plans to save civilians from nuclear war
- Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity
Category Archives: Experts
Paul Kingsnorth on Collapse
It’s the End of the World as We Know It . . . and He Feels Fine APRIL 17, 2014 DANIEL SMITH New York Times [excerpts from a very long article] Kingsnorth is 41, tall, slim and energetic, with sweeping … Continue reading
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Automaticearth World View
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
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
[ 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
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
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
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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Nature : Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture
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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Why neoclassical economics is wrong about energy (and just about everything else)
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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