Another World is Inevitable

I don’t normally comment in these essays on the political affairs of other countries. As I’ve noted more than once here, the last thing the rest of the world needs is one more clueless American telling everyone else on the planet what to do.  What’s more, as the United States busies itself flailing blindly and […]

Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?.

Audio Player Whatever happened to “peak oil” – the assertion that the rate at which oil is extracted from the Earth is nearing a maximum or peak level? With falling oil and gasoline prices and a boom of new oil development in the United States and elsewhere, concern about global oil supplies have faded from […]

Peak oil, the next Kondratiev cycle, generational turnings, and ERE

If you’ve read practically all my posts and all the forum posts as well, you’re probably aware of the fact that one of the early catalysts for my own trajectory to what became ERE was my discovery of peak oil(*) in 2001. (I attribute the other two catalysts to the idea of anticonsumerism and fractional […]

Global Meltdown Begins

From the engineered financial meltdown to mass migrations of populations and the advent of frightening nano technologies and more, including manufactured terror and endless wars, we face an uncertain future and a historical vortex never before experienced. In this emergency update on the heels of a previous warning in June, Alex Jones enumerates the threats […]

How You Can Prepare Over The Next Six Months

I wouldn’t say that it is “never too late” to prepare for potential disaster because, obviously, the numerous economic and social catastrophes of the past have proven otherwise. There simply comes a point in time in which the ignorant and presumptive are indeed officially screwed. I will say that we have not quite come to […]

Great Distractions & the REAL Catastrophe Directly Ahead

If you do not believe in global warming, you likely do not understand math, science, or logical reasoning, and you likely are the sort who swallows propaganda hook, line, and sinker, in which case, you probably won’t believe in peak oil either. Go watch your Fox News, go shopping, and pretend nothing is wrong. *As […]

Robert Rapier: Lessons From a Failed Prediction

Why Make Predictions? While there are actually other stories unfolding in the world of energy, you would never know that by my inbox. Most of the correspondence I have received in the past week is still related to oil prices, particularly following the recent huge rally in crude futures. A few readers also wanted to […]

Economics At The End Of The Age Of Oil With Nicole Foss, Gail Tverberg, and Ugo Bardi

Streamed live on Aug 23, 2015 Economics at the end of the Age of Oil

Pondering Post-Peak Oil Theory

Although I would consider myself to be in broad agreement with “Peak Oil” theory, I am less sure about some of the recent approaches to it. The Oil Drum was the go-to site for peak oil analysis, and I am unaware of any comparable replacement. My diagnosis is that Peak Oil theory developed a public relations […]

The Limits to Growth in the Soviet Union and in Russia: the story of a failure

Above, you can see the full recording of a 2012 lecture given in Moscow by Dennis Meadows; one of the authors of “The Limits to Growth” report of 1972. It is long, more than an hour, but – if you don’t have the time to watch all of it – I suggest that you go […]

Stock up on canned food for stock market crash

A former adviser to Gordon Brown has urged people to stock up on canned goods and bottled water as stock markets around the world slide. Damian McBride appeared to suggest that the stock market dip could lead to civil disorder or other situations where it would be unreasonable for someone to leave the house. “Advice […]

The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space

We’re doing something a little different. Nicole wrote another very long article and I suggested publishing it in chapters; this time she said yes. Over five days we will post five different chapters of the article, one on each day, and then on day six the whole thing. Just so there’s no confusion: the article, […]

Mad Max: Fury Road

In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who is looking to make it back to her childhood homeland.

Malthusians v. Cornucopians

Reading Ronald Bailey’s The End of Doom, I was reminded that the debate between prophets of a looming apocalypse and self-styled cornucopians has a long history, the modern version of which can be traced to the writings of Thomas Malthus in the eighteenth century warning that humanity’s ability to reproduce would outstrip its ability to […]

Doomsday predictions come and gone

There’s never been a shortage of gloomy predictions about apocalypses to come. Here’s a rundown of recent cataclysms that never came to pass. The preppers of Horning’s Mill might seem an oddity in comparison to the millions around the world living without emergency shelters, stockpiles of supplies and plans to escape if a doomsday arrives, […]

TSHTF Podcast with Nicole Foss, Raul Ilargi Meijer & RE

Recently, Nicole Foss of The Automatic Earth returned to blogging after taking something of a hiatus over the last year.  I caught one of her recent pieces on the situation in China, and her partner Raul Meijer has been covering the situation in Greece extensively. Besides the two ongoing clusterfucks of China & Greece, there’s […]

Seven Books You Must Read If You Want to Understand Oil

Here is some light reading on light crude with a tilt to history, science, and talking your way out of a business meeting on various and sundry hydrocarbons. Read 1,000 pages, and you too can catch the commodity knife in the dark. The rite of passage. What is sick is how this Daniel Yergin required […]

Peak Oil and what our response should be

Peak Oil will change the way the world works and our long-held assumptions about the world around us is going to be overturned. Peak oil will render millions of people jobless. Those who depend on food made thousands of kms away from where they stay will find food very expensive. That includes all of us […]

Beyond The Rational Mind And Human Ego

Excerpt from The Lifeboat Hour on http://prn.fm 07.24.15 Carolyn Baker and Derrick Jensen discuss his book “Dreams,” culture, spirituality, and so much more. For more information: http://www.carolynbaker.net http://www.derrickjensen.org For all Xnotes: Field Notes from Extinction, please visit: http://bit.ly/1F0b0OE

Paying in a Broken World

It is a common reaction to ask, how much is that, when we see something we want or need. The question is answered with some monetary figure that people will recognize and use to determine if they can afford it. But what happens when the monetary system we know becomes so dysfunctional that common monetary […]

New Currencies and their Relationship with Fiat Currency

Complementary Currencies aim to work alongside the pound or the dollar. Classically they seek to broker exchanges of underused resources with unfulfilled need, and facilitate activity in niches neglected by the mainstream economy. They do much good work and are worthy of support. Intentional Currency designs on the other hand will generally be grounded in […]

The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream

Let’s take a moment to recap the argument of the last two posts here on The Archdruid Report before we follow it through to its conclusion. There are any number of ways to sort out the diversity of human social forms, but one significant division lies between those societies that don’t concentrate population, wealth, and […]

Heinberg: Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy

As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we are presently using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources annually. We are able to do this only […]

Peak Oil Reading List

The visionary and legendary M. King Hubbert. He was surely considered a tinfoilhatter when he predicted in 1949 that the U.S. would hit its production peak soon and then they were ready to put him in a straight-jacket when in 1956 he predicted that the U.S. would not only peak soon, it would peak between […]

Have Cash On Hand To Survive For Three Months: “No Institution Is Safe”

Economic forecaster Martin Armstrong, who is known for having accurately predicted major events like the Savings & Loan crash, the collapse of Japanese financial markets and the destruction of the Russian economy almost to the day, says that a major turning point is coming to the global paradigm this October. While stopping short of calling […]

The real ‘struggle of our generation’ is not terrorism

Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square should be removed to a museum. All busts and portraits of the great man in parliament and the prime minister’s residence should be taken down and placed in storage. Why? To discourage his successors from slipping their tiny feet into his shoes. Churchill was right when he claimed, in […]

A Financial Collapse Is Imminent Within This Six Month Time Period

Over the last six years Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse Blog has published over one-thousand research papers, articles and reports detailing the financial, economic and monetary crises sweeping the world. While he has often urged his readers to prepare for calamity, he has never issued a specific date or time-frame for the trigger that would send […]

The Last Days Of ‘Normal Life’ In America

If you have got family and friends that you would like to visit before things start getting really crazy, you should do so within the next couple of months, because these are the last days of “normal life” in America.  The website where I have posted this article is called “End of the American Dream“, […]

The End of the Oil Age

Norman Pagett (The End of More) But how can we define an oil age? It has been about 150 years since the first deep oilwells were sunk, and just over 200 years since the viable steam engine was developed. The two are linked, because the steam engine made deep drilling of oilwells possible and gave […]

Peak Oil by Jay Hanson Pt 4.. money..

Peak Oil by Jay Hanson Pt 4.. money..

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