Consumption & Demand

Peak Oil – September 3

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Rogers says bull market in oil has `years to go’
Megaprojects predict decline of oil production
The crash course (End of Money) (audio and slides)
Peak retail sales in Italy?
The question Wall Street is ignoring but the world can’t: Is oil production falling faster than demand?

Review: The Long Descent by John Michael Greer

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The Internet writings of John Michael Greer—beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language—have finally made their way into print. Greer’s searingly perceptive blog entries on peak oil, which for the past several years have enjoyed a robust online following, have now been incorporated into a single bound volume from New Society Publishers titled The Long Descent.

Illusions of inclusivity in the culture of “whatever”

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As the collapse of civilization exacerbates and intensifies, the most well-intentioned and open-hearted human beings will make many mistakes. And at the same time, it is possible to become adept and wizened by warrior/elder principles that skillfully set limits and to adhere to them when it would be much easier to garner kudos from self and others for indiscriminate inclusivity. It is a delicate and daunting dance-sometimes ecstatic, sometimes excruciating. But regardless of its outcome, its pathway traverses nowhere near the land of “Whatever”.

United States & Canada – August 27

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Statistical fluke prevents nuclear incident in Ohio
Debbie Cook: Abandon 19th century fuels and move toward 21st century reponses
Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
Schumer: “The drilling issue has peaked”
Big Coal’s Big-Time Lobby

No way out

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Recently I have begun more than ten books dealing with subjects of sustainability, peak oil, Natural Step principles, and other subjects of the day. Yet I can’t seem to get more than a third of the way through any of them without throwing the book down with disgust.