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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…

23h ago

Back to a Carless Future

23h ago

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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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An AI Takeover (Not)

There is now a widespread belief that AI will inevitably surpass us in terms of intelligence, eventually causing the destruction of…

Aug 19

An AI Takeover (Not)

Aug 19

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Deep Sea Delusions

“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”

Aug 12

Deep Sea Delusions

Aug 12

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Has Peak Oil Become Self-Evident Yet?

Only electrification can save us — or maybe not

Aug 5

Has Peak Oil Become Self-Evident Yet?

Aug 5

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The Productivity Trap

Labor productivity has nothing to do with labor. It was rarely a question of an average worker devising a clever way how to make more…

Jul 29

The Productivity Trap

Jul 29

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Time of Troubles

World war three seems to be cancelled. The collapse of western institutions and states not.

Jul 22

Time of Troubles

Jul 22

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This Civilization Is Not Interested in Saving Itself

One of my favorite tropes — used by activists of all stripes— is ‘acting like a rock in a stream’. According to this metaphor a handful of…

Jul 8

This Civilization Is Not Interested in Saving Itself

Jul 8

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2019: Peak (Western) Civilization

According to the plot of the movie, The Matrix, robots had won the war on humanity and put each and every one of us into a virtual reality…

Jul 1

2019: Peak (Western) Civilization

Jul 1

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Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please?

On radical acceptance and energy cannibalism

Jun 24

Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please?

Jun 24

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A critic of modern times - offering ideas for honest contemplation. Also on Substack: https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/

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