energy
“going green” won’t save us
A recent article by Washington Post staff writer Michael Rosenwald hits on a great point about the tendency to over-consume after “going green”, ‘Purchasing green products may license indulgence in self-interested and unethical behaviors.’ Local home-appliance and building contractors who specialize in green products see examples of such indulgence almost every day. They have begun [...]
all the hilarity of Peak Oil
In this episode of The Bugle, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzmann give a great comedic run-down of the problem looming with peak oil. Mainly covering the fact that the stone-age wasn’t that bad, and that painting yourself blue in a post-industrial future will be a lot more socially acceptable.
petroleum man
While it is highly unlikely that humanity will go extinct in the near future, petroleum man almost certainly will…
a deep physics of finance
The global economic crisis that started in 2008 has summoned a deeper skepticism of the economic mainstream with its corresponding prognostications for endless growth and prosperity. Individuals are starting to question the need to play on the giant wheels of churning money that represented the retirement funds and investments of the past. While I’ve been [...]
technological salvation won’t be “just around the corner”
Ten years ago, energy expert Amory Lovins predicted that by 2010 hybrid and fuel cell cars would make up between half and 2/3rds of all the vehicles in the US. Today, no fuel-cell are on the U.S. market, hybrids are well under 5% and the efficiency of the US transportation fleet isn‘t much higher in [...]
a lot of Kiwis are hunkering down
This segment from New Zealand’s 60 Minutes about locals weaning themselves off of oil and preparing for the collapse of industrial civilization is refreshingly devoid of the sneers and snarky comments a similar piece would be encapsulated with in North America. The commentator even says, “if the worst comes to the worst, these people would [...]
much more than we know happening on the Gulf Coast
Documentary filmmaker James Fox recently tried to get some footage of the oil slick as it impacts the Gulf Coast beaches and found some interesting stories from the locals. James reports that people there are scared, being arrested and that there are evacuation vehicles on-site preparing for mass forced migrations. Of course, those migrations will [...]
the latest from Mike Ruppert
I saw the movie Collapse earlier this year and was impressed by the way it summarized the current global situation. Is it dire? Yes. Does it explain a coherent pattern developed on the basis of irrefutable facts? Yes. Reality isn’t necessarily a cozy as we hope it will be. At the end of the movie [...]
a GOOD global oil consumption infographic
The infographic below does a good job at showing the scale of our predicament by comparing oil consumption in the US with the rest of the world. The United States consumes 19.5 million barrels per day. No amount of solar, wind or algae can replace that amount of energy. The only path to the future [...]
