collapse
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.
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 [...]
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 US President makes some honest remarks about energy
It was refreshing to hear some truth from a US President regarding energy. The excerpt below is the most honest statement from a US President on energy since the Carter era. Maybe there’s still a reason to hope that political will can be built around the massive mobilization effort needed to help cushion us for [...]
living through a superpower’s collapse
If there’s one thing about the inevitable decline of the United States that gives me some bit of deeper comfort, its that people like Dmitry Orlov have been writing about it for a long time. His article, Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century was first released in 2005 and clearly Orlov had been thinking about [...]
calm down, at least we still have civilization
Calm down, we’ve got it under control… for now at least…
confronting collapse
I first learned of Mike Ruppert through a chilling trailer for his then upcoming movie, Collapse. Ruppert has a long history as an investigative journalist that began when he broke away from the mainstream after his excellence in the LA police led him to be actively recruited by the CIA for running cocaine through South-Central [...]
last man standing
This month’s Museletter from Richard Heinberg at the Post Carbon Institute provides a valuable synopsis of where China and the US are at in avoiding an increasingly inevitable societal collapse, Increasingly I am forced to conclude that the object of the game that world leaders are actually playing is not to avoid collapse; it’s simply [...]
what doesn’t work
If you’ve been reading my postings on this blog, you’ll quickly pick up that I think the United States is in full-scale decline. I would love to change my mind on this topic but every piece of evidence tends to point towards either a rapid collapse or a century long dissolution. Probably the actual fate [...]
