Posts Tagged ‘ James Kunstler ’

Wasting Resources

Aug 18th, 2008 | By | Category: Economics, Energy
The American suburb was the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world… Why? Because it has no future, because we’re not going to be able to run it…. We don’t have the resource base to run it. A lot of the delusions that are now rampant in the ...read more

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Commodities Market

Jul 16th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities
2008 has been an incredible year for commodities. While this drastic shift in focus to our finite global resources may seem immediate to the vast majority of Earth’s inhabitants, it’s actually been coming for a very long time. Many of us out there who have been involved in commodities trading and ...read more

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“World Made by Hand” Book Review

Jul 14th, 2008 | By | Category: Oil
World Made by Hand, Part II One of the Last Outposts The premise of World Made by Hand, James Kunstler’s new book, is apocalyptic. For a variety of reasons related to Peak Oil and economic collapse, American civilization simply broke down. The wheels just fell off. The economy collapsed. Commerce broke down. ...read more

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“World Made by Hand” Book Review

Jul 10th, 2008 | By | Category: Oil
World Made by Hand is a beautifully written novel about a very difficult time, post-Peak Oil. Some books hit you in the gut and force you to think; and this is one of them. You may go where you don’t want to go. But it’s quite a trip. The book begins ...read more

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Iowa Flooding

Jun 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities
A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa floods, we’ll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather (climate change) combine and ramify the problems associated with Peak Oil. In this particular case they lead to an inflection point ...read more

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Cars and Energy

Apr 15th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities, Energy
Every automobile on the roads of the world reflects a long and complex chain of industrial production and energy usage. Yet we live in a world where many of the highest quality resources and energy supplies have already been exploited. And lower quality resources are more expensive to extract and ...read more

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