What Are We Not Seeing?

To say the Pagan community has been distracted over the past few weeks would be a massive understatement. I won’t perpetuate the distraction by listing all the teapot tempests and serious-but-distant crises that grabbed our attention. Though there were notable exceptions, we didn’t do a lot of Paganing and polytheisting in November. Not all of […]

Carolyn Baker Interviewed On Dreamvisions

CAROLYN BAKER, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. (She is not, and never has been, a licensed psychologist.) Carolyn’s latest book is Love In The Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating The Relationships We Need To Thrive, published in 2015. She […]

Kunstler: The Story Line Dissolves

Sometimes societies just go crazy. Japan, 1931, Germany, 1933. China, 1966. Spain 1483, France, 1793, Russia, 1917, Cambodia, 1975, Iran, 1979, Rwanda, 1994, Congo, 1996, to name some. By “crazy” I mean a time when anything goes, especially mass killing. The wheels came off the USA in 1861, and though the organized slaughter developed an […]

Fourth Turning – Social & Cultural Distress Dividing The Nation

I wrote the first three parts of this article back in September and planned to finish it in early October, but life intervened and truthfully I don’t think I was ready to confront how bad things will likely get as this Fourth Turning moves into the violent, chaotic war stage just over the horizon. The […]

Let’s be thankful that now is a fantastic time to be alive

Thanksgiving celebrates human cooperation. And even though the European colonization of America was not exactly a cooperative venture, the inaugural 1621 Plymouth Thanksgiving feast certainly was. That historical reality reminds us why Thanksgiving is worth celebrating today — that one of humanity’s best traits is our ability to take something dark and make it bright. […]

Kunstler: Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart

MP3 Download Chatting with Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart, authors of Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting. Both Chris and Adam were corporate executives who dropped out to pursue more a resilient way of life in a rapidly and increasingly hazardous changing world. Chris Martenson began that phase […]

Asia Faces Fertility Crisis

China is not alone. The Asian giant recently abandoned its one-child policy. But other Asian countries, seeking to maximize economic growth, are also struggling with population and family-size policies as they cope with lower fertility rates among their population. However, demographers say socioeconomic changes – not government policies – are the fundamental reasons for low […]

Abiotic Oil, Peak Oil, and Saudi Arabia

Over the past few weeks I’ve been drawing attention to the growing crisis facing Saudi Arabia, a crisis exacerbated in part by Russia’s intervention in Syria. Regular readers will recall that I even blogged about recent Saudi overtures to Russia, in some versions, even holding out a membership in OPEC to that country. Russia is […]

A Conversation with Gail Tverberg of OurFiniteWorld.com

A conversation with Gail Tverberg of OurFiniteWorld.com. Gail Tverberg is an analyst who has been researching the connection between oil limits and the economy for nearly 10 years.  She writes a widely-followed blog called Our Finite World. Her background is as an actuary, working as a consultant to insurance companies. She also has a foot […]

Kunstler: Good Little Maoists

Sometimes societies just go batshit crazy. For ten years, 1966 to 1976, China slid into the chaotic maw of Mao Zedong’s “cultural revolution.” A youth army called the Red Guard was given license to terrorize authorities all over the nation — teachers, scientists, government officials, really just about anyone in charge of anything. They destroyed […]

Is it the end of the world again?

My last two pieces argue the US is fragile and could go into meltdown at any time given over-extended supply lines, a morally weak population, and fiat currency. I wanted to see if the apocalyptic vision of the Christian End Time prophecy is on the money. It’s hard not to get apocalyptic when the world […]

What Happens If the Yuan Becomes a Reserve Currency?

Paul Donovan, UBS Investment Bank global economist, discusses the possibility of the yuan joining the IMF’s basket of reserve currencies and the outlook for the global economy with Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal on “What’d You Miss?”

Peak Oil Info-Graphic

Have we peaked? Interesting info graphic put together by Chiltern Thrust Bore LTD.  

What you gonna do when the bombs start to fall?

  It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.   -Noam Chomsky   Let’s imagine for a few minutes that the ongoing-global-currency war and proxy wars somehow, unexpectedly, blow up into a world war directly involving you, wherever it is that you live.  Specifically, imagine that one side is able to […]

Peak Oil, Fascism, and Genocide

In this broad­cast, we exam­ine the fascis­tic, geno­ci­dal under­belly of the Peak Oil doctrine—one which asserts that the world is run­ning out of oil and that dras­tic mea­sures must be taken as a result. The Peak Oil phe­nom­e­non is dis­cussed in FTR#’s 478, 506. A paper writ­ten and pub­lished by lead­ing fig­ures in the Peak […]

The Depopulation Time Bomb

The future of nations is not written in the stars but in their demographics. In particular, a futurist can study national fertility rates, urbanisation trends and the age structure of population groups to get a picture of a country’s long-term future. Remarkable polymath Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of America and, back […]

America is a bomb waiting to explode

The United States is in decline. While not all major shocks to the system will be devastating, when the right one comes along, the outcome may be dramatic. Not all explosives are the same. We all know you have to be careful with dynamite. Best to handle it gently and not smoke while you’re around […]

Heinberg: Unconventional Energy

Interview with Spanish website FUHEM Ecosocial “This economic system cannot be sustained, and the longer we cling to it, the worse and fewer our options will be as it fails.” FUHEM Ecosocial: Oil and gas extracted by fracking from slightly porous rocks, such as schist, are part of the so-called “unconventional oils”. What does this […]

The Club of Rome, almost half a century later

Almost half a century ago, in 1968, Aurelio Peccei convened for the first time the group that was later to be known as the “Club of Rome”. The aim of the group was not what the Club was to become known for, “The Limits to Growth”. At that time, the concept of limits was vague […]

Is Peak Oil Just A Myth?

As Niels Bohr famously said: “predictions are difficult, especially about the future.” And they are doubly difficult if you are talking about the future of oil. The more uncertain the future, the more vehemently each side presents its case. For years a debate has raged about peak oil, the dreaded moment when we start running out of accessible […]

Kunstler: Bang, You’re Dead

Apropos of the recent Roseburg, Oregon, school massacre that left nine dead, President Obama said, “we’re going to have to come together and stop these things from happening.” That’s an understandable sentiment, and the president has to say something, after all. But within the context of how life is lived in this country these days, […]

Peak oil round up

2015 Could Be The Year Of Peak Oil … I am now more convinced than ever that 2015 will see the peak in world crude oil production. I have very closely studied the charts of every producing nation and my prognosis is based on that study. I see many nations in steep decline and most […]

Why Are The IMF, The UN, The BIS And Citibank All Warning That An Economic Crisis Could Be Imminent?

The warnings are getting louder.  Is anybody listening?  For months, I have been documenting on my website how the global financial system is absolutely primed for a crisis, and now some of the most important financial institutions in the entire world are warning about the exact same thing.  For example, this week I was stunned […]

A Landscape of Dreams

Maybe it’s just the psychology of selective attention, but tolerably often when I want to go into more detail about a point made in a previous essay here, stories relevant to that point in one way or another start popping up on the news. That’s been true even during this blog’s forays into narrative fiction, […]

Sociocultural Boundaries

Some years ago now a team of Swedish scientists proposed an interesting framework for understanding planetary environmental problems. It generated a range of responses from the environmental community, mostly positive. I had what is undoubtedly a very unusual response to their framework, and while it is perhaps old news, it may still be useful to […]

Oil Price Forecasting Lessons From 2008

Most people who attempt to predict the price of oil in either the short- or long-term soon learn humility, but some are so, shall we say, self-confident that they have no problem ignoring their records or ability to understand why they have been wrong, let alone correct it. For example, I have openly admitted my […]

We Were Supposed to Run Out of Oil This Year

According to a 1975 report by petroleum industry experts, the United States was set to be completely independent of Mid East oil by 2015. So was every other country on Earth, “because, statistically, that will be the year the last barrel of oil is pumped from the last well on Earth.” This prediction came from […]

Shale Oil and the 2014-15 Price Collapse

Art Berman is out with a new deck: “The North American Unconventional Revolution & The 2014-2015 Oil Price Collapse” (pdf) and it’s a great review of US shale, Saudi/OPEC response, and the great price fall over the past year. As always, Art is out to tell you some facts you don’t often see in the […]

Fate of Countries in Collapse – Results: Currency Collapse

One of the longest running arguments on the Diner is how various different countries will fare as collapse progresses forward. Most often, this pits the FSoA against China, and the Diner has some China Bulls and some China Bears.  I am a notorious China Bear gong back to my days on the Peak Oil Forum, […]

What happened to peak oil? The cycle of a meme and of its antimemes

The result of a Google Trends search for the term “Peak Oil”. The fading out of the concept may be due not so much to reasons related to the validity (or non validity) of the concept but, rather, to a memetic phenomenon equivalent to the development of an immune response in the human body. Not […]

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