By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
What could bring down the industrial civilization? Would it be global warming (fire) or resource depletion (ice)? At present, it may well be that depletion is hitting us faster. But, in the long run, global warming may hit us much harder. Maybe the fall of our civilization will be Fire AND ice.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
While many of the above facts are well known among those who follow the subject of fossil fuel depletion, they aren't often presented as accessibly or concisely as in Friedemann's book Life After Fossil Fuels.
By Alice Friedemann, MAHB
This book makes the case that the deadliest crisis facing our civilization is energy decline. Peak oil production may have already occurred.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
But let’s assume there is indeed enough time, and that we suddenly get serious about planning. What should we do?
By Luis Teodoro Gutiérrez, Mother Pelican
If human institutions fail to move from dominion to partnership, from patriarchy to solidarity, there can be no social/ecological justice, and we might as well forget about exploring other planets.
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
The problem with freshwater is that we don't have the same wealth of data for water resources and consumption that we have for crude oil.
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Just like the ancient Garamantes, the Saudi Arabians were able to overcome the aridity of their land by using fossil water. But when they ran out of it, it was time over for them.
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
The idea that a civilization may collapse because of resource depletion is often hard to believe for historians.
By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia
Once again, only a handful of people are warning that petroleum is a finite resource and that fracking was a temporary fix at best, and all right-thinking people dismiss them as cranks.
By David Crossley, Resilience.org
The message in this book is simple: There are hard physical limits to the growth of available energy to power our civilization and these will probably be seriously in effect by the end of the 21st century.
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Thomas Huxley said that "it is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." It is a sentence that describes the cycle of ideas, -- call them memes -- which tend to have a life-cycle similar to that of living creatures. They are born, grow, and disappear.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
In this post, I take a bit more time to introduce new elements in the book that Do the Math readers have not seen represented in some form in earlier posts. In other words: what new insights or calculations lurk within the book?