Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it is.
Pentagon & peak oil – then (1957) and now
Amory Lovins on energy alternatives
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: prospects for the U.S. based on the Soviet experience
How to address peak oil skeptics
Friendly fire – the dark side of techno-fixes
Investment in oil E&P – an above-ground factor
How to prepare for peak oil and climate change (permaculture)
One way or another, re-ruralization will be the dominant social trend of the 21st century.
The approach which is hardest to sell seems like the safest. It relies on the concrete, concerted actions of people everywhere doing things that require no miracles of technology, no rosy assumptions about the future availability of critical resources, and only limited faith in the marketplace. It is an approach that one can get started on today without the enactment of any big government program.
ASPO-USA conference presentations online /
Our natural gas treadmill (ASPO talk) /
EB interviewed about recent energy stories /
Sad news from Michael Ruppert and FTW /
Ruppert: Evolution – a matter of community
A true survivalist hopes deep in their heart that the good life never ends for anybody. They just know that trouble sometimes does happen, and want to be as well situated as they can be if bad things do come to be.
Landmark report reveals apocalyptic cost of global warming.
Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will cost the world up to ÂŁ3.68 trillion unless it is tackled within a decade.
Many of us who are aware of (dare I say preoccupied with) peak oil and its likely effects on an unprepared world tend to get so fixated on it (I know I do), that the potential for other factors to also cause disruption is neglected.
Author of ‘The Population Bomb’ Revisits Predictions /
Booming Populations Threaten East Asian Coasts /
As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom /
Lester Brown: US population no cause for celebration
Bill McKibben: How close to catastrophe? /
American Scientist: Rethinking the fall of Easter Island
Ghawar: Water and oil don’t mix /
Keep your eye on non-opec production /
The Y2K fallacy /
Major problems Of surviving peak oil
