Oil

Why does fungibility matter (and where did it go)?

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Our ability to substitute with alternative sources of energy is a factor of how fungible energy really is–how easily we can bring alternative B to replace lost supply of energy A. This article discusses how the real world tends to intrude on fungibility of our various sources of energy and what this matters.

Economics – Oct 26

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Heinberg: A back-row seat at the collapse revue
Oil, house prices, credit? 3 parts of the same story
Oil prices – a little more of the story
Many world stock markets now off 50% or more from peaks

Spreading Manure over Astroturf: Why Ad Men Hate Brown

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Sharon Astyk is one of those “loony tunes” who shows her concern for the planet by depriving her children of central heat and baseball, or at least that’s how she’s portrayed in the New York Times article by writer Joanne Kaufman.
This article is part of a new media genre that takes the serious worries of almost two-thirds of Americans, and creates a special brand of pathology designed to stigmatize, pathologize, trivialize, and marginalize their concerns. In some articles, they call such activism “eco-anxiety” and seek out therapists who “treat” the “disorder.” In this article, she’s coined a new name for the ‘disease,’ calling it “carborexia,” and apparently it is a disease that is spreading.