Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The relative stability of national and cultural boundaries in recent centuries could easily become a thing of the past as industrial civilization unravels. Planning for the deindustrial future needs to keep the possibility of mass migration in mind.
Contemporary peak oil discourse overlooks the “own demand” of substitution. It takes a lot of oil to substitute for oil.
Dr. Albert Bartlett interview
Roger Bezdek keynote address
An inconvenient Swede
ASPO-USA Houston conference, Oct 17-20
FEASTA envisions Ireland’s energy futures
Arab News:
Complicated symmetry between oil and politics
The Shockwave Rider
Monthly Review: A new war on the planet?
Ancient innovations for present conventions toward extinction
Predictions of mass dieoff have been one of the staples of peak oil narratives since the concept first surfaced. A look at the likely outcome of today’s mismatch between population and resources suggests a more nuanced view.
The present is pregnant with the future
Consumerism is dead- long live self-sufficiency!
Movie review: What a Way to Go (Life at the End of Empire)
Recreating “An Inconvenient Truth”s Manhattan flooding in Google Earth
how i became a peak oiler
To all the geeks, gamers, and non-attention payers
Denial
Awakening to the threat of excessive material consumption
The most likely trajectory of industrial society is a process of uneven economic and technological decline, a “long descent” over several centuries leading into a deindustrial dark age and beyond. (first of a series)
Pivotal moment in the green scare
Dmitry Orlov: Civilization sabotages itself
Ten lessons from Katrina on our [in]ability to cope with crises
EconBrowser: “If Saudi production is permanently on the way down, we have just entered a new phase of history.”
Swiss researcher: Ecological footprint, energy consumption, and the looming collapse
Australian peak oil news and more
ODAC News – May 16
Depletion levels in Ghawar
Latest presentations from Simmons
Oilwatch Monthly from ASPO-Netherlands
PFC Energy says there is plenty Of oil
Kunstler: Rigged to blow
Too much energy is bad for you
Peak Oil, Collapse, and the Olduvai
NYT: The silver lining to impending doom
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
Peak oil, carrying capacity and overshoot
The sprirituality of collapse
