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 1126Nov 1126
Time Travel Will Surely Save UsEver 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 2110Oct 2110
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 1443Oct 1443
The Second Bronze AgeThe first bronze age lasted two thousand years and ended some three millennia ago. The second will begin — and eventually end — in a…Oct 720Oct 720
2030: Our Runaway Train Falls Off the Seneca CliffExponential 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 2328Sep 2328
The End of the Great StagnationAlthough GDP figures suggest otherwise, people of western (OECD) economies are in fact trapped in a great stagnation lasting for fifty…Sep 1636Sep 1636
Back to a Carless FutureCommon wisdom holds that if oil is ever to become really scarce, fuel prices would reach astronomical levels and long lines would form in…Sep 925Sep 925
DownslopeThe 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 2613Aug 2613