Peak Oil: Pre-Planning

An observation worth noting … and pondering, from the International Energy Agency: …pre-planning is essential in order for transport demand restraint measures to succeed during an emergency. It is not enough for countries to have a list of measures to use; they must be ready to implement those measures on very short notice. To do […]

Men, Women, Collapse, And Conflict

As I reflect on my travels and interactions during the past year, one theme persists in my conversations with folks about collapse. Whereas the most burning questions used to relate to timelines and the speed of collapse, what I now hear more about these days is a nearly bottomless pit of longing so many people […]

Peak Oil Was A LIE

Peak Oil Was A LIE. Nevada Governor 2014 David Lory VanDerBeek http://nevadagovernor2014.com/

Self-destruction: A myth or a reality?

Reading Inferno, the latest novel by Dan Brown, I realize how wrong we have been in believing the myth of nature’s limitless resources. Unfortunately, this myth — thanks to Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret and its successors — now believed by most motivators, is actually “a state of denial”, as Brown reminds us. I quote from […]

Watts Up, Vaclav? Putting Peak Oil and the Renewables Transition in Context

  Like most serious energy geeks, I’m a huge fan of Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. His detailed and highly empirical work on energy is enormously useful for those who would have a realistic grasp on the future of energy. But for heaven’s sake, don’t forecast the […]

Peak Oil Revisited Oil Limits Are Now Debt Limits

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Peak Oil: Denial Mode

An observation worth noting … and pondering, from Richard Embleton: We don’t like bad news, particularly when it has very long term implications. Individually and collectively we tend to slip into denial mode, focus on diversions, become numbed to the reality of the situation, cling to anyone willing to assure us it just ain’t so, […]

Orlov: Communities that Abide Q&A

[Update: there are a lot of comments, some interesting, but it seems like a lot of commenters think that I am advocating becoming like the communities I described or holding them up as models. No-no-no! I simply pointed out that they are uniquely successful in terms of their longevity and outcomes, and described the commonalities […]

Orlov: Communities that Abide Podcast

Doomstead Diner Orlov – Fostering Multigenerational Communities

Richard Heinberg: Peak Oil and the Globe’s Limitations

Richard Heinberg, senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute and the author of The Party’s Over, Peak Everything and, most recently, Blackout, discusses the phenomenon of peak oil and how it will affect life on this planet.

Orlov: Communities that Abide (Preamble)

One of my two talks at The Age of Limits 2013 was on Communities that Abide. It was a review of best practices, based on the experience of historical communities that are stable or growing, comprise multiple generations, manage to hold on to their young people, and have a distinctive way of life that is […]

Kunstler: Out On a Limb

     There is one supreme and universal law of human relations in all its manifestations, social, political, economic, cultural: people create no end of mischief in the hours when they are not sleeping. Any vision of history-yet-to-come must be predicated on this principle.       A correspondent of mine objected to the idea […]

Ian Dunlop ASPO Peak Oil & Climate Change

Video (2011) More info http://www.aspo-australia.org.au

Robert Hirsch: Reflections on the Conference on “Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportunities for the GCC Countries”

I was fortunate to be among the few westerners invited to attend and speak at this first-of-its kind “peak oil” (PO) conference in a Middle East. The fact that a major Middle East oil exporter would hold such a conference on what has long been a verboten subject was quite remarkable and a dramatic change […]

Kunstler: America the Vulnerable

History warns we’re sleepwalking towards collapse For most people, the collapse of civilizations is a subject much more appetizingly viewed in the rearview mirror than straight ahead down whatever path or roadway we are on. Jared Diamond wrote about the collapse of earlier civilizations to great acclaim and brisk sales, in a nimbus of unimpeachable […]

Peak Gold

We are rapidly approaching the end of cheap resources. The wealth of most Americans could get wiped out during the next decade due to commodity inflation. Focusing on your real purchasing power is critical. As this brief documentary discusses, what is it that makes gold so special? Merely a “tradition” as Bernanke would have us […]

The Limits To Growth – Last Call Film

LAST CALL the untold reasons of the global crisis . A documentary film on the saga of the most controversial environmental bestseller of all times.Today its message is more relevant than ever. CHANGE THE ENDING, support the LAST CALL CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN Directed by Enrico Cerasuolo and produced by Zenit Arti Audiovisive in association with Skofteland Film

The Long Emergency, Permaculture, and Towns That Food Saved

We live in dangerous times, when economic collapse, climate chaos, and peak oil threaten the foundations of society, abundance, and all we hold dear. “Business as usual” will no longer suffice, because that way leads to certain pain, peril, and impoverishment. Unspeakable acts of violence like the slaughter at the Sandy Hook school or at […]

The Natural Limits Of Confronting Our Limits, By Carolyn Baker

LOAVES AND FISHES This is not the age of information. This is not the age of information. Forget the news, and the radio, and the blurred screen. This is the time of loaves and fishes. People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand. ~David Whyte~   It’s Memorial Day, 2013, and […]

Is the Dollar Dying? Why US Currency Is in Danger

The U.S dollar is shrinking as a percentage of the world’s currency supply, raising concerns that the greenback is about to see its long run as the world’s premier denomination come to an end. When compared to its peers, the dollar has drifted to a 15-year low, according to the International Monetary Fund, indicating that […]

The Age of Oil: Every man a master, every man a slave

“If we do commit a sin owning slaves,” said one Alabama slaveholder in 1835, “it is certainly one which is attended with great conveniences.” You can say the same thing about using energy from fossil fuels —  it’s super bad, but it’s also super handy. And that’s the conundrum that Andrew Nikiforuk examines in The […]

Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System

I am currently reading Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System.  From the summary: The electric power delivery system that carries electricity from large central generators to customers could be severely damaged by a small number of well-informed attackers. The system is inherently vulnerable because transmission lines may span hundreds of miles, and many key […]

Peak Oil and Transition

full documentary…

Peak Oil: Game-Changer

An observation worth noting … and pondering, from Michel Desjardins: We have become increasingly aware that there are fundamental constraints to ongoing economic expansion, that perpetual growth on a finite planet is a fool’s dream. If Peak Oil is here – and there is solid evidence showing that it is – then it means we […]

How Fiat Dies: FAQ for Hyperinflation Skeptics

This FAQ is for the frequently asked questions or objections common among hyperinflation skeptics.  The statements or questions in bold below are things hyperinflation skeptics say and my responses follow. How is hyperinflation defined? The International Accounting Standard of IAS 29 says there is hyperinflation when “the cumulative inflation rate over three years approaches, or […]

Peak Oil: It’s Dead — Again?

“The IEA says Peak Oil is Dead. That’s Bad News for Climate Policy,” blares a Time magazine headline. But there’s just one problem. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said no such thing. “New oil sources, many of them unlocked by new technology—the Canadian oil sands, tight oil in North Dakota and Texas, ultra-deep water […]

Carolyn Baker: Blogging From The AOL

No, not THAT AOL—not America Online, the monster internet provider we have all grown to know and hate. Rather, I’m sending you an update on the Age Of Limits Conference from a pristine, un-fracked place in Pennsylvania.   Above is a photo taken just at the entrance of the conference site and what those of […]

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Virtually every past civilization has eventually undergone collapse, a loss of socio-political-economic complexity usually accompanied by a dramatic decline in population size [1]. Some, such as those of Egypt and China, have recovered from collapses at various stages; others, such as that of Easter Island or the Classic Maya, were apparently permanent [1,2]. All those […]

Google Earth and the Bahraini Uprising

At this minute, the entire industrialized world is having a collective panic attack over the protests and brutal crackdowns now underway in the tiny nation of Bahrain. Sure, it might be the dawn of an oppressed people—democracy, civil rights, rule of law. And it might be a government reacting via violent suppression to the tune […]

Peak oil – Wiki Article

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, but has since rebounded setting new records in both 2011 and 2012. There […]

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