Anger & Complicity in a Time of Limits
As a species we’re very sensitive to intra-human drama, and in a time of growing crisis, tend to frame narratives as those who are with us and those against.
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Power is nothing without control: how to lose an empire
Power is nothing without control. And, usually, control seems to run out before power.
The global Transition tipping point has arrived – vive la révolution
Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new NASA-backed scientific research project at the US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (Sesync) to model the risks of civilisational collapse, based on analysis of the key factors involved in the rise and fall of past civilisations.
How to be Trapped: An Interview with David Korowicz
The broad point here is that growth and collapse is a much more fundamental process than capitalism…
Exploring the “why” behind extreme energy
Thus far the debate around unconventional gas/fracking has focussed on pollution, flammable water, earthquakes, noise, toxic fumes, climate change, etc. As a result people mainly focus on the "what?", or at a local level the "where?", of the issue. My research leads me toward one single question… "why?".
Health systems, neoliberalism, and the end of growth: The World Health Organization in denial
The WHO (World Health Organization) has released its latest in a series of reports…I find the report psychologically dissociative, ethically compromised, and in an intellectual malaise.
Limits to Growth–At our doorstep, but not recognized
How long can economic growth continue in a finite world? This is the question the 1972 book The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others sought to answer.
Why EIA, IEA, and Randers’ 2052 Energy Forecasts are Wrong
What is correct way to model the future course of energy and the economy?…With different approaches, researchers can obtain vastly different indications. I will show that the real issue is most researchers are modeling the wrong limit.
The Schizophrenic Society
Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.
Born to Buy?
With Christmas past, household consumption reached its yearly peak in many countries. Whilst this celebration still brings up a homely picture of tranquility, the truth is that Christmas is characterized more by frenzied shopping, stress and overspending than by peace and quality time.
Review: Cold, Hungry and in the Dark by Bill Powers and Snake Oil by Richard Heinberg
There has always seemed to be something deeply wrong with fracking for oil and natural gas.
Richard Heinberg: Puerto Rico in a world in transition
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
