Toward a Green Future, Part Three: The Barbarism of Reflection

One of the least helpful habits of modern thinking is the common but really rather weird insistence that if something doesn’t belong all the way to one side of a distinction, it must go all the way to the other side. Think about the way that the popular imagination flattens out the futures open to […]

The Decline of Oil

So-called environmentalists never tire of predicting the end of oil. They’ve been talking about “peak oil” for decades, after which annual production would inevitably decline as we drain the world’s finite supply. In fact, proven reserves (oil that we know is there and is recoverable with current technology and under current law) have been steadily […]

What Collapse Feels Like, Part 5: Hijacking Joy: The Civilized Cerebesphere And New Age Nausea

Perhaps the last emotion a collapse-aware reader would expect to see in a series on “What Collapse Feels Like” would be joy. Fear, anger, grief, and despair yes, but not joy. Yet I believe we have every reason to expect that the end of life as we have known it will be attended by joy […]

update on Peak Oil

I summarized my attitudes to Peak Oil in an (anonymous) contribution to the Azimuth discussion a couple of years ago, reproduced below. It seems right [except the dubious comment on shale oil was way off]. World economic growth continues to be constrained by the fact that we can only slowly change infrastructure. Fossil fuel use […]

Will the real International Energy Agency please stand up?

It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a third contradictory forecast in the space of a year. You may recall that on To Tell the Truth the host would begin by reading a statement from a […]

Rob Hopkins Introduces New Yorkers to the Transition Movement

The Transition movement, a grassroots response to climate change, focuses on local economic development.  In 2005 UK environmentalist Rob Hopkins created a unique organizing method to catalyze community level responses to climate change, as he set up what would be the first Transition initiative in the town of Totnes, England.  Hopkins co-founded the Transition Network in 2007 […]

Unsustainability Now!

Concerns over sustainability are usually directed towards the future–a pattern I have often been guilty of participating in. We talk about the environmental costs to our children and the world we will leave to them, the future consequences of our current action and inaction. Peak oil activists were likewise still using phrases like “after peak […]

Kunstler: The Turning

    In these northern climes, this turning into the year’s final quarter feels written in the blood, or at least into the legacy code of culture. The leaves skitter across the streets in an early twilight, chill winds daunt man and dog, the landscape buttons itself up for the long sleep, and human activity […]

Dmitry Orlov Reviews “Collapsing Consciously”

Carolyn Baker’s CollapsingConsciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times is perhaps the most approachable book on collapse you are likely to find. Compared to Jarred Diamond’s Collapse, which weighs in at just over 600 pages, Baker’s is well under 200. And yet in these few pages Baker manages to tackle a topic which Diamond studiously avoids: […]

Faith and trust in the system is collapsing

I began reading Dimitry Orlov’s recent publication, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit, last week and it has got me thinking about his thesis with respect to the revelations around the U.S. surveillance system being used globally by the-powers-that-be (both corporate and political), in combination with the ongoing exposure of manipulation of various markets and […]

Al Bartlett interview from Blind Spot documentary

Al Bartlett Interview 2008

Dueling forecasts: Why our energy future is actually a risk management problem

Optimistic, but unwarranted, energy supply forecasts permeate the media (courtesy of the oil and gas industry) even as the occasional dire scenario gets coverage. But, it is well to remember that none of people making forecasts can know the one thing they all desperately want to know: the future. The most important thing you need […]

Peak Oil: Using Energy To Get Energy

For parallelism with the language of finance, net energy should refer to energy produced minus energy invested, whereas EROI should refer to energy produced divided by energy invested…. The relationship between ROI and EROI is actually very simple and logical. The more energy you have to invest to produce a fuel, the lower your EROI […]

Economic Growth: A Social Pathology

The pathological pursuit of economic growth is central to the way in which our societies are run, and forms a major barrier to reaching a sustainable state for humanity. That such growth endangers our very survival by degrading and exhausting the environment upon which we are dependent upon, and per capita wealth above a given […]

Daniel Yergin Interview

The crisis began when Arab oil exporters declared an embargo on shipments in response to U.S. military support for Isreal in the Yom Kippor War, prompting lines at gasoline stations and fears that Americans’ lifestyle was changing in fundepental ways

Why Peak Oil Might Matter.

Peak oil has never been a popular theory among market analysts. After all, the peak has been prophesied repeatedly, but still hasn’t come to pass. Time after time, new areas have been opened to development and new technologies have come to the fore, putting off the peak for another day. Yet the specter of peak […]

10 Years After ‘The Party’s Over’: an interview with Richard Heinberg

While running the risk of sounding like a Hello! Magazine reporter, I must introduce this post by saying that while in the US recently, I joined Richard Heinberg and his wife Janet in their beautiful permaculture garden in Santa Rosa, California.  Richard will be known to most readers of this blog as the author of The […]

From the Mouths of Babes

A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL EXPLAINS HOW WE CAN STOP THE ADDICTION TO ECONOMIC GROWTH THAT’S DESTROYING THE EARTH Hi! I’m Amy Johnson-Martinez, the 14-year-old girl who’s saving the earth from environmental destruction. A lot of people don’t understand how the destruction of the earth is connected to our addiction to economic growth. Actually, a lot of […]

Noam Chomsky on Peak Oil, Economics, Financial Markets

Noam Chomsky on Peak Oil, Economics, Financial Markets, Bailouts, Investment, Climate Change (1998) Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production is expected to enter terminal decline. Global production of oil fell from a high point in 2005 at 74 mb/d, […]

Food riots, China cyber attacks, the rise of conscious AI and other ‘what if’ predictions

Where will you be when the food riots begin? What will happen when China unleashes a cyber attack on the power grid infrastructure? Will you say no to the government gunpoint vaccinations teams that go door to door administering “influencia” vaccines? (Those are vaccines that lobotomize your brain just enough to make sure you can […]

Lifeboat Hour with Mike Ruppert and Dimitry Orlov

This entry was posted in Lifeboat Hour and tagged collapse, Mike Ruppert, New White Trash, Nightclub At the End of the World, warrior wisdom on October 27

Communities that abide: Finland

[This week we continue the series with an article on Finland, by Eerik Wissenz. Few people know that before Russia came to exist as a country, and for many centuries after, communities of Finns were widely distributed over what is now Russian Federation territory, surviving mostly by hunting and fishing, and not making much of […]

Carolyn Baker Interview Regarding “Collapsing Consciously”

Interview with Carolyn Baker on Collapsing Consciously from Before It’s News Brought to you by North Atlantic Books 1. What was your prime motivation in assembling your book Collapsing Consciously knowledge wise?     In 2007 I became aware that what we are confronting is not a series of isolated problems but rather, the collapse […]

TheOilDrum writers: where are they now?

Nate Hagens is at TheMonkeyTrap JoulesBurn (Brian Maschhoff) is at Picojoule Euan Mearns is at Energy Matters Heading Out (Dave Summers) is at Bit Tooth Energy Rune Likvern is at Fractional Flow Gail Tverberg is at OurFiniteWorld Chris Vernon is at Chris Vernon Big Gav is at Peak Energy Australia Robert Rapier is at Energy […]

Peak Oil Denial: Skimming Over Facts

What is that mysterious concoction being shot underground into the shale rock, and how can it not be dangerous? Fears over pollution and contamination of drinking water and the environment from fracking fluid seem to stem from a lack of  information about what this rock-shattering mixture actually is. The secret to fracking fluid is water […]

Orlov: The Sixth Stage of Collapse

I admit it: in my last book, The Five Stages of Collapse, I viewed collapse through rose-colored glasses. But I feel that I should be forgiven for this; it is human nature to try to be optimistic no matter what. Also, as an engineer, I am always looking for solutions to problems. And so I […]

Peak Oil, Fact or Fraud? Climbing Mt. Hubbert

by Dale Ellis – “A world become one, of salads and sun…” This post is written for those who hold the view, understandably, that peak-oil may be a hoax. I sometimes forget that skepticism of corporate power distorted by bubble-vision makes the study of peak-oil seem like the quest of a knave. But if it’s […]

Peak Oil: A Splash of Cold Water

An observation worth noting … and pondering, from Steve LeVine: If Montana is a microcosm of the world, one message to glean is that we are not in the midst of a decades-long flood of oil supply in the United States, as many suggest. Instead, the red lights are blinking across the exuberant U.S. oil […]

Peak Oil And The Reality Of What’s Coming

Michael Ruppert, Colin Campbell and other experts explain what is coming!

Heinberg: Chapter 4 – Fracking Wars, Fracking Casualties

This article is an excerpt from Richard Heinberg’s new book SNAKE OIL: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Given the urgency and importance of the issues we are serializing the book here at Resilience.org. Read Part 4: Chapter 3 – A Treadmill to Hell BUY THE BOOK News item, dateline February 14, 2013: Ben […]

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