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Slo-mo Splat
Richard Heinberg Jan 4, 2009 12 comments
Remember the wall that environmentalists (like the 1972 "Limits to Growth" authors) have long been saying that industrial society would eventually hit? Permit me to make the formal … >>
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Surviving a Reduction in Social Complexity
Richard Heinberg Dec 17, 2008 20 comments
The literature on societal collapse has expanded in timely fashion in the past couple of years, with the publication of Jared Diamond's best-selling Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or … >>
IEA: Everyone Gets to Be Right
Richard Heinberg Dec 10, 2008 6 comments
In recent days our friends over at The Oil Drum have done a laudable job of dissecting the recent annual report of the International Energy Agency, "World Energy Outlook 2008". Briefly: … >>
The Peak Everything Year
Richard Heinberg Dec 8, 2008
For those who understand the overwhelming importance of fossil fuel depletion, the signal event of 2008 was without doubt the oil price spike that sent the cost of a barrel of crude rocketing to … >>
Transport: Time to Think Outside the Metal Box
Richard Heinberg Dec 8, 2008 2 comments
Both the ongoing collapse in oil prices and the car companies' travails are partly illuminated by the following chart of Vehicle Miles Traveled. People are just not driving as much. And they … >>
Peak Oil Still Relevant? More Than Ever.
Daniel Lerch Dec 4, 2008 4 comments
Before the Thanksgiving holiday we got an email from William M., a reader of our newsletter, asking, "Why if oil supply is decreasing and demand is increasing is the price collapsing? What is … >>
Economists Without a Clue
Richard Heinberg Dec 3, 2008 17 comments
Prepare to observe the spectacle of the two great economic paradigms of the twentieth century crashing to the ground, locked in mortal combat. A hundred years past, markets ruled freely: fortunes … >>
Top of the Food Chain
Richard Heinberg Nov 25, 2008 11 comments
Today comes the startling news of a British government report showing a drop in oceanic zooplankton of 73 percent since 1960. For many people, this may seem relatively inconsequential as compared … >>
The China Syndrome Bites Back
Julian Darley Nov 17, 2008
Just 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster, in March 1979, a movie called 'The China Syndrome' was released. The title comes from the idea that if the core of an atomic … >>
Obama's Secret Door To Peak Oil
Julian Darley Nov 13, 2008 7 comments
President-elect Obama has a lot on his plate at the moment, and much of it is probably quite unpalatable. The last thing he needs then, is a goblet of seeming hemlock to wash it all down. But … >>
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