Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kurt Cobb Many readers will know about the claim that a frog plopped into boiling water will hop right back out if it can, while one put into cold water which is then slowly heated will remain until it is cooked. The claim is wrong, but the story is quite useful in understanding some human behavior.
The pointless debates over evolution discussed in last week’s Archdruid Report post have any number of equivalents all through contemporary industrial culture.
This is a brief article articulating why the idea of energy return, typically applied to the manufacture of fuels, has broad social relevance.
Mass migrations, or more specifically mass culture replacement, is one of the more troubling aspects of peak energy.
The fruits of our labor are starting to show themselves. Everywhere in the garden that I look, I am seeing fruits and vegetables that are ready to eat, or soon will be.
It’s a very old choice: which will you have, the love of power or the power of love?
The continual recycling of repeatedly failed predictions in the peak oil community, the theme of last week’s post here, is anything but unique these days.
I’d like to suggest that from now on, any claim about the future needs to be confronted up front by the two hard questions…
My days as a dumpster diver started in earnest back when I was 19.
Of all the proposed solutions to the conundrum of perpetual growth in a finite world, one stands out for its straightforwardness and frankness. It is the notion of a steady state economy…
…there absolutely must be places, things, and values that money does not touch and cannot reach.
Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble–bumblebees are too.
