Economics: Hallucinated Wealth

The economic dimension of the decline of industrial civilization is crucial, but those who expect it to show up in obvious ways in the markets and crunched numbers of today’s official economics may be missing a central facet of what’s going on.

U.S. energy policy – Oct 10

Nation still needs a sane energy policy.

Energy vacation (Bush energy bill)
Politics of climate change – why Democrats should stand up now
Raise the gas tax? Funny, it doesn’t sound Republican
Without renewable power, U.S. Army could fail in Iraq

Climate – Oct 9

Extreme droughts will spread, warn forecasters

Tasmania: dry farms

Green thinking: Planet Earth… but not as we know it

Hansen: Global temperature change

Audio: Rasmus Benestad talks climate change

Peak Oil – Oct 9

Raymond James: even the Saudis may be close to hitting peak production

Ruppert: The bumpy plateau – Markets react to peak oil

Minister: Peak oil and global warming

64 squares and a grain of sand

Peak Oil: Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’

Crude Assumptions – The State of the Peak Oil Debate

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