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A Diesel Powered Civilization

Part 1: A gigantic Ponzi scheme

3d ago

A Diesel Powered Civilization

3d ago

Can We Escape Our Predicament?

Civilization is a double-bind: damned if we continue with it, damned if we don’t. Is there a way out?

Nov 11

Can We Escape Our Predicament?

Nov 11

Time Travel Will Surely Save Us

Ever since the idea of a time machine was proposed by H. G. Wells, in his 1895 novel with the same title, there is no end to the series of…

Oct 21

Time Travel Will Surely Save Us

Oct 21

Will There Be a Second Stone Age?

We are heading towards another stone age — at least from a purely technical perspective. After the easy to get parts of fossil fuels and…

Oct 14

Will There Be a Second Stone Age?

Oct 14

The Second Bronze Age

The first bronze age lasted two thousand years and ended some three millennia ago. The second will begin — and eventually end — in a…

Oct 7

The Second Bronze Age

Oct 7

Power Down: A Scenario

Bronze age collapse on steroids

Sep 30

Power Down: A Scenario

Sep 30

2030: Our Runaway Train Falls Off the Seneca Cliff

Exponential growth rarely ends well — OK, it never does so. But how does it end then? Well, to use Ernest Hemingway’s beaten to death…

Sep 23

2030: Our Runaway Train Falls Off the Seneca Cliff

Sep 23

The End of the Great Stagnation

Although GDP figures suggest otherwise, people of western (OECD) economies are in fact trapped in a great stagnation lasting for fifty…

Sep 16

The End of the Great Stagnation

Sep 16

Back to a Carless Future

Common wisdom holds that if oil is ever to become really scarce, fuel prices would reach astronomical levels and long lines would form in…

Sep 9

Back to a Carless Future

Sep 9

Downslope

The fossil fuel bonanza is slowly coming to an end. Not with a bang, mind you, but with a whimper: presenting us with a long winding road…

Aug 26

Downslope

Aug 26

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