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Tag Archives: peak oil
Survival: stay out of institutions
I’ve always been amazed at how many people are not in the labor force and that the taxes on those who work can support everyone else. Including those who are institutionalized. On the other hand, I ran across a survivalist … Continue reading
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Tagged institutionalized, juvenile detention, nursing home, peak oil, prison, wheelchair
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We are over the edge of the Energy Cliff
Figure 1. Conventional Oil Production vs. Conventional Oil Discoveries. NOTE: These conventional oil reserves DO NOT include Heavy oil or Oil Sands. Preface. I don’t know who wrote what follows, I was on the end of a chain of many forwarded … Continue reading
How long will concrete last if it isn’t maintained?
As energy grows scarcer and is devoted to growing food and other life-support services, our infrastructure will crumble. Bob Holmes. 12 Oct 2006. Imagine Earth without people. NewScientist.com Lack of maintenance will spell an early demise for buildings, roads, bridges … Continue reading
Posted in Concrete, Infrastructure & Collapse
Tagged concrete, peak oil
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Dan Allen: When collapse happens, help it crash faster
What Dan Allen writes below is what many scientists and ecological activists are thinking and saying privately. Read his entire post at resilience.org for context, since this slice of the article seems rather harsh and cruel. But all the other … Continue reading
Posted in What to do
Tagged deep ecology, derrick jensen, peak oil, rapid collapse, what you can do
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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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James Howard Kunstler “True Believers”
James Howard Kunstler. August 17, 2005. True Believers. There is a special species of idiot at large in the financial media space who believe absolutely in the desperate and tragic public relations bullshit that this society churns out to convince … Continue reading
Posted in Oil & Gas Fracked, Other Experts, Peak Natural Gas, Peak Oil
Tagged fracking, peak natural gas, peak oil
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When Life Nearly Died. The greatest mass extinction of all time
[ Benton shows why it was probably lava flows, not impact from meteors that caused the Permian extinction. I don’t know why everyone isn’t reading whatever they can find on the greatest mass murder of all time — the Permian … Continue reading
Posted in But not from climate change: Peak Fossil Fuels, Extinction Books
Tagged extinction, gas hydrate, methane hydrate, peak coal, peak natural gas, peak oil, permian
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