Peak Oil

The Negative-Sum Economy | John Michael Greer

Sept. 15, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are tides and seasons in the comments I field for posts here on my blog, certain questions that get asked at regular intervals, certain saliva-flecked tirades I can count on getting whenever certain things appear in my writings or happen in the world. One of the more frequent of the questions is how to preserve wealth in the face of a difficult future. This ...

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A Sense of Déjà Vu | John Michael Greer

April 7, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Déjà vu -- the sudden insistent feeling that you’ve encountered the present moment before -- can be one of the oddest of human experiences. Sometimes, though, it happ ...

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Algorithms And Red Wine: Is The 'Digital Hive' A Soft Totalitarian State? | Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2010 -- Ferrara, Italy -- Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your particular ...

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The Arc Of Our Future | John Michael Greer

July 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to he ...

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Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation | umair haque

Photo: Medium We Need Three Decades of Revolutions. But Are We Capable of It? July 25, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Any thoughtful person should understand that, at this juncture in human history, civil ...

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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball | Joe Bageant

Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...

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The Next Twilight of Environmentalism | John Michael Greer

Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, a ...

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Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer

Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...

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The Horsefly Cometh | James Howard Kunstler

Horsefly. Credit: Dave Edens, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 You can see where this Mueller thing is going: to the moment when the Golden Golem of Great ...

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That Collapse You Ordered…? | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 30, 2018 I had a fellow on my latest podcast, released Sunday, who insists the world population will crash 90-plus percent from th ...

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Another Quandary | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 9, 2018 That crusty ole rascal, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, seems to be enjoying his sunset journey into Civil War II or maybe the destination is m ...

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