Deep thought – Feb 23
Conflict over, and in the midst of, nature’s assets
NYT: Could energy success backfire in the end?
Gloom and doom
The secret
Overshoot
Deep thought – Feb 16
“The Great Squeeze” – film review
Interview: Matthew Stein, author of “When Technology Fails”
Homer-Dixon: Our Panarchic Future
Zero-Sum Game
Social collapse best practices
If there is one thing that I would like to claim as my own, it is the comparative theory of superpower collapse. For now, it remains just a theory, although it is currently being quite thoroughly tested. The theory states that the United States and the Soviet Union will have collapsed for the same reasons, namely: a severe and chronic shortfall in the production of crude oil (that magic addictive elixir of industrial economies), a severe and worsening foreign trade deficit, a runaway military budget, and ballooning foreign debt. I call this particular list of ingredients “The Superpower Collapse Soup.”
Deep thought – Feb 10
The fight to get aboard Lifeboat UK
Population growth: the forgotten worry, though crisis continues
Candles In The Darkness
Food & agriculture – Feb 11
Is America on the Brink of a Food Crisis?
Britain ‘must revive farms’ to avoid grave food crisis
Food security and global warming: Monsanto versus organic
A deindustrial reading list
After fielding multiple requests for a reading list on the end of the industrial age, the Archdruid suggests ten books that might just cast a necessary light on the crisis of our time.
Too many people, too much stuff – Feb 1
Peak middle class
CSM: Earth’s big problem: Too many people
Peak everything
Energy and ecology: why societies really succeed and fail
A human society that aspires for long-term sustainability will want to live in accord with basic ecological principles: energy comes from the sun; all resources are constantly cycled such that there is no waste whatsoever; fertile soil is the foundation of terrestrial life; and a sustainable population of a given species is one that is maintained at or within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
Reality Report: Chris Martenson on the current financial crisis
Today’s guest is scientist and financial expert Chris Martenson, here to explain how the financial crisis is a predictable outcome of a money system requiring exponential growth on a finite planet.
Population – Jan 29
Population Australia’s ‘big threat’
Japan workers urged: Go home and multiply
Peak oil? Global warming? No, it’s ‘Boomsday!’
Peak Moment 138: The Twilight of an Age (transcript added)
In his book, The Long Descent, John Michael Greer observes that our culture has two primary stories: “Infinite Progress” or “Catastrophe”. On the contrary, he sees history as cyclic: civilizations rise and fall.
