Saudi princess appears in O.C. court in slave labor case

Dressed in a jail-issued blue jumpsuit, a woman described by authorities as a Saudi royal princess appeared in an Orange County courtroom Thursday to face human trafficking charges that accuse her of forcing a Kenyan woman to work as a domestic servant. Meshael Alayban, who stood in a gated section of the courtroom and had […]

Should we stop worrying about peak oil?

Demand for oil will reach its own peak and decline before humans deplete the Earth’s supply of oil, experts say. “Peak oil” prognosticators have painted pictures of everything from a calm development of alternatives to calamitous shortages, panic, and even social collapse as the world reaches its peak of oil production—and then supplies fall. But […]

Stanford researchers say ‘peak oil’ concerns should ease

Fears of depleting the Earth’s supply of oil are unwarranted, according to new research, which concludes that the demand for oil – as opposed to the supply – will reach its own peak and then decline. “Peak oil” prognosticators have painted pictures of everything from a calm development of alternatives to calamitous shortages, panic and […]

Peak oil’s death has been greatly exaggerated

Fans of the the Oil Drum website are blaming the success of fracking for its demise. Not so fast Sad news from the world of Peak Oil-awareness. On July 3, the Oil Drum, a fabulous one-stop-shop for news, analysis and discussion of energy issues, announced it was shutting down after an informative eight-year run. As […]

Different Peak Oil Denial Nonsense Is Still Nonsense [Pt 4]

I began the first post in this series with this observation: “Some day (soon, I hope) audiences for whom peak oil denial nonsense is intended will ask themselves: what are the reasons—and supporting evidence—for these kinds of assertions?” This is a follow-up to last Monday’s post, offering more samplings from a Forbes piece published a […]

Will the Collapse of Civilization Begin With Global Corporatist Totalitarianism?

  STAGE WHAT COLLAPSES SIGNS OF COLLAPSE E.G. OF CULTURE AT THIS STAGE COPING/RESILIENCE MECHANISMS 1. Financial Collapse banks, currencies, the value of savings & assets bank failures/rescues, stock/housing market collapses Iceland during 2008 crisis eliminating and repudiating debts, using community currencies, let the banks fail 2. Commercial Collapse credit availability, trade, businesses, tax revenues, […]

Are You Strong? Remembering Randy Udall

JR: After a weeklong search, Randy Udall’s body was found in Wyoming Wednesday. He appears to have died of natural causes during a solo camping trip. Randy was the brother of Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), who released a family statement, which ended “Randy left this earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most […]

Is Peak Oil a Scam or a Reality?

The current state of oil dependency on this planet may not be necessary due to alternative energy sources, but the fact remains that under this current paradigm, with the tools and products available to us, oil is still unfortunately a fundamental part of our every day lives. Photo: Usaherald By JG Vibes Intellihub.com July 4, […]

R.I.P. The Oil Drum 2005-2013 {Peak Oil proclaimers giving up}

It was with some dismay that I read this morning of the impending end of The Oil Drum, perhaps the leading “peak oil” blog … … due to scarcity of new content caused by a dwindling number of contributors. Despite our best efforts to fill this gap we have not been able to significantly improve […]

Egypt A Peak Oil Revolution

What is happening or just happened in Egypt could be the first Peak Oil revolution which is sure to replicate many times over in many countries around the world. The root cause of Tahrir I as well as Tahrir II was the economic condition of Egypt which put the middle class and the working classs […]

Hitler Finds Out About Peak Oil

This video shows the famous meltdown scene from the German film “Downfall.” This parody is done from the peak oil perspective. See what happens to Hitler when he realises the full implications of peak oil. Inspirations for the this video include the writing of James Howard Kunstler and Derrick Jensen.

Randy Udall, RIP

Randy Udall died last week while on a backpacking trip in the Wind River Range of Wyoming.  His body has just been found after an extensive search. Randy was a co-founder of ASPO-USA.  I certainly didn’t know him well enough to attempt a proper obituary, but I will say that he was a regular reader […]

The End of the Oil Drum

Rembrandt Koppelaar has announced today that the Oil Drum will cease to be an active site with the end of July 2013. After eight years of activity, TOD is closing down. I would like first to thank all the members of the TOD group, of which I have been a member up from 2008 up […]

Even More Signs You’re Not Ready for Peak Oil

Humor, Video: Even More Signs You’re Not Ready for Peak Oil

Peak Oil: Energy Independence

An observation worth noting … and pondering, from Jen Alic. Overall, Americans are being misled about the nature of their dependency. Too much focus on removing the ‘foreign’ element in the foreign oil dependence equation is skewing the larger picture: Independence can only be achieved by tackling dependency on oil itself, not on the origins […]

Civilization after Oil Runs Out (Full Documentary) Peak Oil

Civilization after Oil Runs Out (Full Documentary) Peak Oil … … … 2013 This documentary and the rest of the documentaries here are about important times and figures in history, historic places and sites, archaeology, science, conspiracy theories, and education. The Topics of these video documentaries are varied and cover almost everything, including ancient history, […]

Ugo Bardi Reviews Dmitry Orlov

  Dmitry Orlov’s recent book, “The Five Stages of Collapse” is a stark description of the world as it is today and of what its destiny could be.  So impressive it is that it reminded me of a story by J. L. Borges “Dr. Brodie’s Report” Sometimes, when you read a book, something rings in […]

The Inseparability Of The Great Disruption And The Transformation Of Consciousness

Didja think we were all going to just transform the present world into a new dimension, a parallel universe, Heaven on earth, or experience The Rapture, Ascension, move into our light bodies, or whatever new age, magical, or mythical belief we might hold? I’m not saying that any one – or more – if these […]

Different Peak Oil Denial Nonsense Is Still Nonsense [Pt 2]

I began the first post in this series with this observation: “Some day (soon, I hope) audiences for whom peak oil denial nonsense is intended will ask themselves: what are the reasons—and supporting evidence—for these kinds of assertions?” Contributors to Forbes in particular seem intent on peddling a sliver of truth wrapped with a generous […]

Peak Oil: Bottom Line

An observation worth noting … and pondering, from Chris Nelder. [T]here is no intellectually honest way to believe that the world can continue its near-total reliance on fossil fuels for much more than another decade — a paltry window of opportunity. We also know that we cannot wait until they go into decline before reaching […]

Extreme Energy, Extreme Implications: Interview with Michael Klare

If oil and gas is a profoundly dynamic phenomenon, then so too must be environmental risk and conflicts over natural resources—and we are not getting the full picture from the mainstream media, according to Michael T. Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, TomDispatch blogger, and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking […]

Different Peak Oil Denial Nonsense Is Still Nonsense

Some day (soon, I hope) audiences for whom peak oil denial nonsense is intended will ask themselves: what are the reasons—and supporting evidence—for these kinds of assertions? Good to have dreams, I say. (While they’re at it, audiences can also ask the same re: NRA-paranoid crazy statements and the idiotic pronouncements on a wide range […]

The Unknown Unknowns And Survivor Bias

Survivorship bias helps us understand why success stories are not what actually helps us succeed. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is famous for uttering a koan-like description of the epistomological ambiguity of human experience: There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, […]

Michael Ruppert on Peak Oil and Collapse

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Peak Oil for Dummies (and Cornucopians)

As happens with most finite resources, “loose” oil gets found & extracted first, and “tight” oil is pursued later. More drilling and/or new drilling technology can’t turn tight oil into loose oil and reverse the fundamental predicament. So-called new discoveries (like the Bakken shale) are just old oil revisited out of desperation. To put it […]

Peak Oil, Ecoflicks

“Peak Oil” by Larry Larstead EcoFlicks 2013

Yet another appeal for the adoption of ERoEI*

So, we have Gail (Tverberg) who believes that renewable energy technology is NOT sustainable and George (Oprisko) who is quite sure that it is even without further technological breakthroughs. But, no one knows for certain because the most respected analysts upon whom the world relies do not carry out their computations sufficiently far to determine […]

Kunstler: Dmitry Orlov’s Excellent New Book

This essay is a review of Dmitry Orlov’s excellent new book, The Five Stages of Collapse. I can’t recommend the book highly enough. Orlov is one of the great literary stylists of his generation as well as one of the leading intellectuals. Link to Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Click Image to Buy Book A Review […]

Energy Poverty: We Need to Do So Much More

A recent multi-agency study led by the World Bank and the International Energy Agency has found that if we continue as we do, i.e. a business as usual approach, it will be nowhere near sufficient to achieve the goals of the UN’s Sustainable Energy for ALL (SE4ALL) Initiative. As a natural cynic, I am hardly […]

The Human Race (Part 1)

The world is on the brink of disaster. An overwhelming cast of characters now dot the sacred spaces of earth. With a finite amount of resources, and an exploding population, there would come a time when the human race would fall. We have but one earth. Most estimates put forth a value of 4 billion […]

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