Category Archives: The end of more

May 14 2013 By Karl North | April 6, 2013 A recent Cornell report on how to convert New York state energy consumption to alternative fuels perpetuates the nonsense that in a declining economy we can convert NY or anywhere … Continue reading →

Unburnable Carbon Bubbles (via Market Shadows) Courtesy of The Automatic Earth. Artwork: Ilargi for The Automatic Earth A report came out in Britain 10 days ago that deserves more attention than it got. If only because it uses the great … Continue reading →

Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns in Shale Plays Nationwide? (via Desmogblog) Today’s shale gas boom has brought a surge of drilling across the US, driving natural gas prices to historic lows over the past couple of years. But, according to David … Continue reading →

23 April 2013 Norman Pagett writes: We face three nightmare scenarios – climate change, a scarcity of global resources (the most critical being energy food and water) and all the unknowns of climate change. We can see these converging, yet … Continue reading →

17 April 2013 Norman Pagett writes: “Greece might be the first Western country to discover that you cannot keep running up debts to pay for a lifestyle you did not earn. She will not be the last. The laws of … Continue reading →

15 April 2013 Norman Pagett writes: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think … Continue reading →

by Tim Morgan on April 8, 2013 If you’re familiar with the thesis set out in Perfect Storm, you’ll appreciate two things about our approach to economics. First, there has been an ever-widening divergence between the “real” (energy-based) economy and … Continue reading →

27 March 2013 Norman Pagett writes: It is an interesting quirk of history and geography that the European Union has been created roughly on the same map outline of the old Roman empire, and just like the Romans, the EU … Continue reading →

Reposted courtesy of The Post Carbon Institute Posted Mar 25, 2013 by Tom Whipple As the term “China syndrome” has already been taken, I am terming what is happening in the country these days the “Beijing syndrome,” for China’s capital … Continue reading →

Published courtesy of Our World 2.0 by Stephan Schmidt on March 25, 2013 Lorenzo Fioramonti is a political scientist and specialist on governance issues who teaches at the University of Pretoria where he directs the Centre for the Study of … Continue reading →