Global efforts to substitute for oil: Learning by doing ourselves in
Contemporary peak oil discourse overlooks the “own demand” of substitution. It takes a lot of oil to substitute for oil.
Overshoot
Peak oil – June 23
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
Deep thinking – June 12
The Shockwave Rider
Monthly Review: A new war on the planet?
Ancient innovations for present conventions toward extinction
A depopulation explosion?
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 blogs are alive – June 6
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
From the blogs – May 26
how i became a peak oiler
To all the geeks, gamers, and non-attention payers
Denial
Awakening to the threat of excessive material consumption
Glimpsing the deindustrial age
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)
Dysfunction – May 18
Pivotal moment in the green scare
Dmitry Orlov: Civilization sabotages itself
Ten lessons from Katrina on our [in]ability to cope with crises
Peak oil – May 16
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
Peak oil – May 14
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
Looking beyond – May 7
NYT: The silver lining to impending doom
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
Peak oil, carrying capacity and overshoot
The sprirituality of collapse
Our finite world: Implications for actuaries
Introduces actuaries to the fact that the world is finite and we are reaching limits in several areas-oil, natural gas, fresh water, and indirectly climate change. These changes affect projections for the future, as made by actuaries. Actuaries should begin to question economic theory as well as their own models.
