How The Globalists Will Attempt To Control Populations Post-Collapse

There is an interesting disconnect with some people when discussing the concept of global centralization. Naturally, the mind reels in horror at the very idea, because many of us know, deep down at our core, that centralization is the root of tyranny.  We know that when absolute power is granted into the hands of an […]

America: You Will Go Insane Because Of What Your Eyes Will See

A cloud of madness is descending on America, and most of us are completely unprepared for the chaos that will be unleashed during the months ahead.  This morning, I was reading through Deuteronomy when I came to a phrase that really resonated with me.  In the Modern English Version, this is what Deuteronomy 28:34 says: “You […]

Peak Oil Research Outline

Image Courtesy: link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_peak_theory author: en.wikipedia.org description: Hubbert peak theory I. Categorized Documents Outline 1. PEAK OIL (53) 2. OIL PRODUCTION (45) 3. OIL PRICES (31) 4. CRUDE OIL (27) 5. CONVENTIONAL OIL (22) 6. OIL INDUSTRY (20) 7. WORLD OIL (19) 8. GLOBAL OIL (19) 9. OIL RESERVES (17) 10. OIL FIELDS (17) 11. […]

Less than 10 years left to save bananas

Scientists have sequenced the genomes of three fungal diseases that currently threaten banana crops, and found something disturbing – the fungi have evolved to the point where they could wipe out the most popular banana crops in five to 10 years. Before you let the darkness of a world without bananas swallow you up, the […]

The 100,000-Barrel Oil Output Increase That Didn’t Really Happen

Weekly data adjusted to end ‘disconnect’ with monthly report U.S. weekly oil production based on model except for Alaska Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Share on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on Google+E-mail U.S. crude oil production is holding up better than the government previously thought. The output estimate jumped by 152,000 barrels a day for last […]

Feeding the masses

It’s an unavoidable question, and right now it’s a problem. How do we feed 9 billion people on this planet? Leaders all over the world are furiously crunching numbers and developing strategies, preparing for one eventuality: There will be 9 billion people on Earth by 2050. Currently, 7.3 billion people inhabit this planet we call […]

Creating an Island of Sanity in a Sea of Global Chaos

From Deb Ozarko’s website: I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: our world is in a massive state of collapse. As a result, we’re living in very uncertain times. One would have to have their head firmly planted in the sand to not understand how dire things are on all levels: social, cultural, ecological […]

James Howard Kunstler: Racketeering Is Ruining Us

If you don’t understand what’s causing a particular problem, then it’s pretty difficult to come up with an effective solution. Author, commentator and longtime friend-of-the-site James Howard Kunstler returns to our podcast this week to discuss the importance of accurate diagnosis — in this case, of the scourge he sees as accelerating America’s downslide into […]

As Saudi Austerity Starts to Bite, a Testing Time for Its Prince

Fahad bin Raja sells cars for a living in Saudi Arabia’s capital. Abdullah Saeed drives them. In the kingdom’s new age of austerity, both men are finding it harder to make ends meet. Saeed, 63, says his monthly rent of about 2,000 riyals ($560) is covered by social insurance payments, but that leaves the cost […]

A Reality Check on Renewable Energy Potential

Highlights On a global level, the potential for renewable energy is more than sufficient. Problems emerge on a regional level, however, especially in developing Asia and Africa. Renewable energy technology forcing in these regions can have serious socio-economic consequences. Introduction We often see images like the one below which imply that the potential of renewable […]

US/Saudi Airstrike Kills 10 Kids at School in Yemen

At least ten children have been killed and almost thirty injured in north-western Yemen, Doctors Without Borders said after a reported airstrike on a religious school. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Twitter that at least ten school children have been left dead and 28 injured in Yemen’s Saada province. Al-Alam News Network and Iran’s […]

What Will You Do When The Lights Go Out? The Inevitable Failure Of The US Grid

Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday […]

The “stereosphere” and the upcoming photovoltaic revolution

It seems to be popular nowadays to maintain that photovoltaic energy is just an “extension” of fossil energy and that it will fade away soon after we run out of fossils fuels. But photovoltaics is much more than just a spinoff of fossil energy, it is a major metabolic revolution in the ecosystem, potentially able […]

Kunstler: Burning Down the House

here’s a new feature to the Anything-Goes-and-Nothing-Matters economy: Nothing-Adds-Up. The magicians who pretend to measure the growth of GDP (Gross Domestic Product — the monetary value of all the finished goods and services) came up with a second quarter “adjusted” figure of 1.2 percent. That would have to be construed by anyone acquainted with basic […]

Sustainability & Resilience of Our Food System

Over the past eight years Asher Miller has served as Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute (PCI), a nonprofit think tank that supports the transition to a more resilient, equitable and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises […]

Why I Am Skeptical Of Electric Vehicles

Before you start furiously typing out a retort, hear me out. First, I want to make it clear what I am not skeptical about. I am not skeptical about electric vehicles (EVs) continuing to grow rapidly for the foreseeable future. Indeed, I believe that will happen — although growth has slowed in the U.S. in […]

Why oil companies must look beyond oil

Persistently low oil prices have had a devastating effect on the economies of all major oil producers/exporters who are accustomed to a price regime of over $100/b. The lifting of sanctions on Iran and its ability to quickly ramp up to pre-sanction (2012) levels of production and exports has made the market even more liquid […]

The Myth of Self Reliance

A mass emailing went out a while back from a prominent permaculturist looking for “projects where people are fully self sufficient in providing for their own food, clothing, shelter, energy and community needs. . .” There it was, the myth of “fully self sufficient,” coming from one of the best-known permaculturists in the world. In […]

Oil #2: The Price Of Oil

This is the second of five episodes. In the first episode of our oil series, we bought oil — and we paid $40 a barrel. A few weeks earlier, the price of that same oil would have been about 25 percent more. A few weeks from now, it might be 25 percent lower. Oil is […]

If Oil Prices Don’t Rise, the Middle East Will Sink

he ongoing collapse in oil prices that began two years ago is setting the stage for a catastrophic situation in the Middle East if it continues. That catastrophe could come in three stages of war: civil war within the boundaries of each sovereign; war between sovereign states; and most broadly, for the intra-Islamic fight between […]

Collapse Fatigue

When we initially awaken and realize life is not what we were taught, inner alarms scream for our attention. Even though we can sense a danger we didn’t previously perceive, we cannot judge how close it is. There is no scale to measure proximity, only the palpable fear of a real and present danger. Naturally, […]

Saudi-Iran Oil Rivalry Heats Up As OPEC Seeks To Stabilize Price

Saudi Arabia and Iran are giving no ground in their market share war, just days after OPEC announced an informal meeting to discuss ways to stabilize falling prices. Oil’s return to a bear market last week prompted a flurry of words from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The group’s president Mohammed Al […]

Methane Hydrates, The Next Shale Gas?

The talk a few years ago about an imminent peak in oil and gas production was proven incorrect by the technological strides made to access shale oil and gas resources. It seems that governments, exploration companies, and even the United Nations are striving to make the next technological leap – this time into accessing the […]

New Era of Global Collective Psychosis

Anybody who has been unfortunate to be in a car or plane crash, but lucky enough to survive it and tell the story afterwards knows the inherent paradox: the event occurred in the blink of an eye, but seemed, in retrospect, to have unfolded in a dreadful slow-motion sequence. What can be called the crash […]

Robert Rapier: Midyear Prediction Check

In January of this year, as I do every year, I made several energy predictions for the upcoming year. (See My 2016 Energy Predictions). Now that half the year is in the books, I thought it might be a good idea to check in and see how these predictions are tracking. As a reminder, I […]

IEA Sees Oil Glut Easing

Global oil markets will continue to re-balance this year as a pick-up in demand from refiners absorbs record output from several Persian Gulf producers, the International Energy Agency predicted. Refiners around the world will process record volumes of crude this quarter as their intake rebounds after falling in the second quarter by the most since […]

Iraq, oil companies agree to restart investment, boost output

Iraq has reached agreement with BP, Shell and Lukoil to restart stalled investment in oil fields the firms are developing, allowing projects that were halted this year to resume and crude production to increase in 2017, Iraqi oil officials said. The agreements, reached in July and August, effectively delay to the second half of the […]

Heinberg: Is the Oil Industry Dying?

The peak oil controversy stages a comeback as the industry confronts a future of higher costs — and low prices. By Richard Heinberg A spindletop spouter gushes oil in 1902. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) Talking about “peak oil” can feel very last decade. In fact, the question is still current. Petroleum markets are so glutted and prices are […]

Venezuela’s Maduro Says He Discussed Oil Prices With Saudi King

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he spoke to Saudi Arabia’s king about boosting oil prices and is reaching out to the heads of state of fellow producers Russia, Iran and Qatar as his country reels under the crude crash. Venezuela, holder of the world’s biggest oil reserves, wants to stabilize prices that fell to a […]

Global glut of oil products

Gasoline and diesel stockpiles have swollen to record highs across the globe, leaving refiners and traders few places to dump excess supplies and threatening large-scale production cuts that could derail an oil price recovery. Typically, U.S. and European refiners deal with excess regional inventories by exporting extra supplies to markets where margins for diesel, gasoline, […]

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