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- 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 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
Summary of Hirsch & Bezdek 2005 DOE Peak Oil study
A summary of: Hirsch, R. L., et al. February 2005. Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, mitigation, & risk management. Department of Energy. The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. … Continue reading
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Extinction has Nearly Happened Before: The Human Bottleneck
Sam Kean. 19 Jul 2012. Blogging the Human Genome Entry 10: The chromosomal evidence that mankind nearly went extinct. Slate.com Take your pick for the cause of our near-extinction—ice ages, plagues, Indonesian gigavolcanoes. But humans have far less genetic diversity … Continue reading
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Tagged bottleneck, extinction, human survival
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Hirsch predicts Oil Shocks by 2017, panic, and stock market crash
I believe oil shocks could lead to a FAST CRASH Robert L. Hirsch was the author of the first US government report on peak oil in 2005, which recommended taking action to mitigate Peak Oil at least 20 years before … Continue reading
Posted in By People, Energy Books, Oil Shocks, Peak Resources, Robert Hirsch
Tagged hirsch, liquid fuel crisis, transportation
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Tad Patzek: Our complex civilization will cease to exist 20-30 years from now
Tad Patzek. 9 July 2012. What to do? Without the high energy density, fungible fuels flowing at high rates through our complex civilization, our society will cease to exist within 20-30 years from today. A Public Agenda survey in 2009 … Continue reading
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Gail Tverberg (Gail the Actuary)
Gail the Actuary at ourfiniteworld.com and theoildrum.com writes outstanding columns on peak oil and finance. There are so many graphs that I’m not going to summarize all of this article, you need to read it! Most people assume that lower … Continue reading
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Nicole Foss Podcasts and Miscellaneous
Nicole Foss, at theautomaticearth.com, writes about the intersection of Peak Oil and the economic system. Podcasts Nicole Foss – How I Prepared My Home for Peak Oil Harvard recently wrote a study that got a lot of coverage and convinced … Continue reading
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William Rees
Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) He is the originator of ‘ecological footprint analysis.’ He is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and a Founding Fellow of the One Earth Initiative. 23 … Continue reading
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Changing energy markets and U.S. National Security. House hearing 2011
House 112-89. December 16, 2011. Changing energy markets and U.S. National Security. House of Representatives Hearing. 69 pages. Excerpts follow: Edward R. Royce, California. Energy has become a national security issue in the United States. And one of the realities … Continue reading
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Tagged dependence, energy, oil, policy, security
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How will the American public act when oil decline can’t be denied
[ History and scientists and the obvious fact there are limits to growth have been ignored by the public for the most part. No doubt as a psychological defense, but when things do get bad, people will want a scapegoat … Continue reading
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Tagged peak oil, predictions, psychology
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2001 Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century
The government has known for a long time that an energy crisis was approaching as is shown in this document. 2001 Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the James A. … Continue reading
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