Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Written with the satirical wit of modern Voltaire, Orlov goes where few other peak oil writers have dared to go, and his sardonic Russian humor allows a stark look at American prospects through the eyes of someone who has witnessed collapse first hand.
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Thomas Friedman and his book, Hot, Flat And Crowded
Kunstler on wishful thinking
Mike Davis: Welcome to the next epoch – humanity’s meltdown (“Anthropocene”)
Sixty days, next year (diary of the future)
In this paper we will consider the implications of the dwindling supply of oil in light of the Olduvai Theory.
Gail Tverberg reviews Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse
Futurist Jeremy Rifkin’s bleak view of the future
8 things we are running out of and why
Carolyn Baker: Location, location, re-location
Getting through a crash will take more than tomatoes and Mason jars.
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end of the era of growth. “The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other,” writes Holmgren.
His ideas have been the inspiration since 1798 for anyone concerned about over population and food scarcity. Relegated to history’s back shelf in the 1960s by agriculture’s Green Revolution, his forecasts are back, with a vengeance.
Expert warns climate change will lead to ‘barbarisation’
Thomas Homer-Dixon interview
The Onion: Everything falling apart, reports Institute
John Michael Greer is quite correct that historically humans have met resource declines with struggles to adapt, and that these efforts have changed the dynamics of the decline. But I think he is too dismissive of those who worry about a rapid, steep decline.
C.I.A. chief lists population as a top concern
Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise
The Population Bomb revisited
More choice for women means more sustainability
