Deep thought – May 2
TOD Book Review: World Made by Hand
Darley: The day the gas dried up
Food, fuel, finance: crises are intertwined
Longtime environmentalist Speth: capitalism need a radical transformation
Demise of civilisation may be inevitable
Overshoot
Our ewes are having lots of lambs, but is more better?
I rather think that these white-gowned scientists in their laboratories don’t understand that the mentality that strives for triplets is not the best way to feed the world or to make farming sustainable.
Collapse & crisis – Apr13
Stewart and Lee Udall: A message to our grandchildren
NPR: Are we doomed? Why civilizations like ours fall
Failing ecosystems the mother of all bubbles
Recession, depression, collapse: What’s fear got to do with it?
The peak oil crisis: the transition
While waiting for the price of gasoline to get so high that we can’t afford to drive anymore, there is still some time to ponder just how the great paradigm shift of the 21st century is going to work out.
Peak oil – Apr 1
WSJ: Billionaire cashes in on offshore oil rush
Peak oil = transportation revolution
M. King Hubbert on the nature of growth
Phosphorus – Apr 1
World’s phosphorus situation scares some scientists
Aldous Huxley on phosphorus depletion and endless growth (1928)
Phosphorus in “Brave New World”
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
The Collapse Party platform
This being an election year in the US, I thought it fitting to circulate my little wish list of items that the US government could try to accomplish if it suddenly decided to make itself useful. [Excerpt from Reinventing Collapse]
Deep thought – Mar 25
Wall Street Journal: New limits to growth revive Malthusian fears
Passover as if Earth really matters
Deep thought – Mar 24
Despoiled Nauru – poster child for “The Party’s Over”
What does climate change do to our heads?
Making the most of a global depression
The problem is not just financial mismanagement; there is a deeper instability: the global economy is based on a fundamentally unsustainable exploitation of depleting natural resources.
Do we have too much energy?
Our biggest challenge is not related to getting enough energy. Our biggest challenge is to understand our relationship with energy and to recast it so that we may live more harmoniously with the world around us.