I am not in the Olduvai camp. The downshoot surely wont be back to the stone age.
It does seem that Wage-Slave-Labour, ie Capital, depends on surplus, which depends on EROEI ie fossil fuels.
Hard to envisage the post concentrated-energy ie diffuse energy economy
Where I sit the wind blows every day, more or less, and the wind turbines power the entire city. Dams + geothermal + wind do 70% of the countries energy. Fine if the rains persist.
Which it looks like they will.
Unfortunately the populace is gripped by a fierce intensity, a determination not to be human.
Thin on the ground, determined to bar refugees (660 per year permitted!). Triumphant in their weatherboard Cu-Cr-As soaked pine bungalows, still yet worth a dozen years pay,
determined to drive 100kW chariots from their 'driveway', determined not to live next to their kin.
Blissful fugue adoration for Capital. Lockouts of unions, even 'on the waterfront' where the navvies humping sacks were long replaced by a single guy way up in the seat of a massive container crane.
I suppose that on the worlds way down, in the grab for the last drop, some fools will let fly some nukes. I refuse to believe that a mere 50 cities burning will do for a nuclear winter.
Surely at least a third of people will survive.
horizonsofsignificance dark-mountain disasturbation-and-doomer-porn yoism
‘Few men realise,’ wrote Joseph Conrad in 1896, ‘that their life, the very
essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only
the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.’
uncivilisation
machines-making-machines-making
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Shipping Container Architecture
- exactly where in Wellington is that house?
firmitas cryptogon progressiveradionetwork
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Putins sensible propoganda
rt.com
the Arab Spring was initially received with hope for positive change. People in Russia sympathized with those who were seeking democratic reform.
However, it soon became clear that events in many countries were not following a civilized scenario. Instead of asserting democracy and protecting the rights of the minority, attempts were being made to depose an enemy and to stage a coup, which only resulted in the replacement of one dominant force with another even more aggressive dominant force.
Foreign interference in support of one side of a domestic conflict and the use of power in this interference gave developments a negative aura. A number of countries did away with the Libyan regime by using air power in the name of humanitarian support. The revolting slaughter of Muammar Gaddafi – not just medieval but primeval – was the manifestation of these actions.
No one should be allowed to employ the Libyan scenario in Syria.
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This just in: Zionists still disgusting, threat to world peace.
timeinc change blogspot
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Fanon, the absence
blogspot
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Fukushima
medialens
The explosion leveled the walls, leveled the structure for the Unit 4 spent-fuel pool all the way down to the approximate level of the bottom of the fuels. So, there’s no water in there whatsoever,” an NRC official said on March 16, according to the transcripts. [...]
“If this happened in the U.S., we would go out to 50 miles,” Bill Borchardt, the NRC’s executive director for operations, told NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko on March 16.
wsj
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Energy consumption is still increasing rapidly, 550 exajoules (523 Quadrillion BTUs) ..primary energy in 2010.
..80% fossil fuels, 11.3% bio-energy mainly wood 5.5% nuclear, 2.2% hydro, 0.4% other renewable
1 to 10 exajoules time to rise: 12 years nuclear, 33 crude oil, 39 natural gas, 52 coal, and 59 hydro-power.
exajoules (E18 joules) Quadrillion (E15) BTU's ..
1 joule = 9.48 E-4 BTU.
1 boe (barrel of oil equivalent) = 5.45 E6 BTU. = 5.75E9J
1 ft³ of natural gas = 983 BTU. 1.04E5
1 m³ = 3.6E6J??
1 metric ton of coal = 22.72 E6 BTU.
1 exajoule = 174 million barrels of oil equivalent.
1 foot³ = 0.02832 meters³
businessinsider
theoildrum
businessinsider
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