Excuse me. "A runaway energy crisis, together with resource depletion, climate change and ecosystems collapse will upend centuries of growth and prosperity" is just a story we're being fed to induce fear and compliance. Ignore it. Turn off your televisions. The crisis is that organizations like the WEF are worrying that they are running out of time to bludgeon us into compliance with their fantasies. Turn your back and raise your middle finger.
I do subscribe to that basic Limits To Growth projection from 1972. It has been tracking pretty well for all of these years, and I believe industrial output probably did inflect in late 2018, along with peak net oil and liquids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
If I'm wrong, I'll be much relieved, but I think COVID-lockdowns and "going direct" to big banks and financiers was what peak-oil ended up looking like.
This problem of reducing our energy use rhymes with reducing the number of children. White Ango-Saxon Protestants and White Catholics eat up this bullshit as we are replaced. We are deindustrializing Europe and America while BRICS and Eurasia modernize.
Let’s put Climate Change and Limits to Growth aside until we can exterminate those that started the lie. Then, we do some real “science” of population and climate.
I am a strong proponent of permaculture and regenerative agriculture. We will be fine once again, when the Rockefeller and Rotschild families are all dead.
We can look at climate-change more for what it may actually be, which is not CO2 orthodoxy. I think it looks worse and more complex, something we need to adapt to as it happens.
The Limits To Growth story is the same, as I see it. Global economy is 90% correlated with oil, and net-oil (and liquids, which don't make Diesel) peaked in late 2018.
The sooner the world honestly faces this, the better.
Until then, Russia has a huge edge, because Russia did not peak yet in prosperity, or even prosperity per capita.
For decades, it’s been forbidden to import EU cars that do better than 60mpg -- because seeing is believing and the dark side doesn’t want improvements to be seen. I absolutely do not believe that energy solutions cannot abound except for ignorance and greed and brainwashing. The problem is spiritual.
Oddly enough, it’s very hard to buy a usable car that does better than 60 mpg here in the EU. I’ve finally figured out why, the car firms over here better hurry up and get the EU to ‘un-ban’ ICE cars before China eats there and our lunch for us with there electric cars.
The EU runs a lot of Diesel, which is denser fuel, so Diesel mileage is naturally higher than with gasoline. Gasoline is basically a useful waste product of refining things that industry needs, like Diesel.
The Toyota Prius mix is pretty good, with a bit of regenerative braking and a small battery to boost the car back up after stopping, and for brief acceleration. More battery is too heavy and expensive.
There are inefficiencies to all engines, so the main gains are regenerative braking, and using a small engine for baseline power, and a bit of battery boost for brief power bursts.
The car needs to be light, and especially needs to have low wind resistance, so small and a bit aerodynamic. The Prius and the original Honda Insight were very carefully engineered. The Honda was smaller.
I think BlackRock and other financial institutions are very scared of losing-their-assets in Ukraine, and I hope they do. Yes, surrender, but nobody in power gets paid to surrender, and some are paid to kill those who would even negotiate with Russia.
If this keeps going Ukraine will be a landlocked rump-state.
Susan, apart from paying a few mercenaries, the coke sniffers in government and the MIC, the money paid to "Ukraine" loops back into nefarious pockets in USA and Israel. It's all about dunning the serfs for their last dime.
Framing everything under the energy umbrella is the only way I can make sense of the system jitters.
Thanks for the round up John. I’m reading less about war, genocide and policy at present. I’m going to focus on getting the last $20k of the mortgage paid and doomsday prep a lot more. I would have mulched those branches!
And you have a big property, too. I have a kitchen compost bin here in Austin, and in Yoakum we throw it in the banana patch. We hope to have a mild enough winter some year to not kill the green bananas.
Several thoughts arise about how Bidenismo can never die and never accountable- and honestly I doubt that being tortured due to January 6 would be prosecuted in this non existent nation. Once the masks were worn the nation decided slow and lingering seppuku was peachy. Each day reveals crimes impossible to ignore and yet ignored. The sad conclusion is that a nation of serfs shouts as mounting the scaffold for hanging themselves “Long live the Tsar” and so it goes. Men prefer slavery because of money and status as freedom only exists to buy more stuff and get out of Dodge. I’m sorry for the nation. Robinson Jeffers saw this fate but he only was a poet.
I think normalcy is under attack from agents within, enemies within, but that doesn't mean that normalcy is dead. Certainly normalcy is not in the news. People don't want slavery, they want the old normalcy. I think the old normalcy is priced out, but if all of the wealth quit flowing uphill, and to Raytheon et al, a new normalcy could be good enough.
Hmm. Right. I got the idea. Normalcy was the Jazz Age. Nice high culture scene then. Plutocrats had debonair. Not New York hillbillies or Texas oil men. And Henry Ford paid enough to buy his car. My mom was from rural KY in 1918. My Dad from Germantown Wisconsin and Polish in 1912. So I feel back to F. Scott and the Great Gatsby. Normalcy. You recall the overall culture before the first youth wave started to hit shore and changed Normal into NORML and took the country for a walk on the wild side. That culture's world arose from Imperial warfare by the Federal Unit of Das Kapital. I am presently reading Robert Louis Stevenson on the 8 year Samoan civil war of the 1880's-Germans, English, Americans felt entitled to Samoa and disputed it through gunboats and proxies. Germans and Americans almost went to war and Germans in the US strove to be low key about being German. Normalcy. WW1 maybe not normal. Took a while to get "Over There." WW2 for sure the New Normal that lingered into Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and now Gaza in a way as Biden uses the Israeli Department of Das Kapital to fight.
That's a lot of tree trimming! Good for you. And I find myself agreeing with the woman about mulching. Ifyou've got that many trees, you can certainly use a shredder. Then you take the shredded material and use it in your garden as mulch. A nice circle.
It is a big hackberry tree that hangs over our fence in Austin and drops millions of hackberry seeds in my garden, but not this year. More pictures to come. The city (Austin) picks up and shreds and composts all those bundles and I can get the compost from their processor for cheap.
Concerning the inevitable energy/ecological collapse: Certainly UFO disclosure is a factor in the coming crisis. If Grusch and Elizondo and Lazar are to be believed, there are transformative technologies available that will vastly increase our ability to support humans with a small ecological footprint, and also vastly increase our ability to destroy one another and the planet. If these Congressional UFO hearings are part of a grand hoax, there may be a false flag war with imputed extraterrestrials in our future, designed to unite mankind and make us all obey.
I sort of agree, Josh, but we can't be trusted with anything nice until we stop obsessing with killing people who won't become our slaves. (I use "we" so loosely as to misstate the groups involved. The "owners" act as a different sub-species.)
I think those of us who do not have those traits should grow veggies, ride bikes, be friends and conserve resources, whether anybody compliments us or not.
Yes, we have no choice but to develop close community and local self-reliance. Whether we believe in technology or not, it will be taken from us for a time. It is my hope that when we recover from this crisis, when we build a new world, some of our best technologies will be preserved and made available. Worldwide connectedness via the internet is precious to me. I have friends all over the world.
Of course we need to outgrow our violence and find our connection to one another and to Life. But why does that preclude advanced technology?
The quality of life that you and I enjoy depends on technology, and if we want more people to have what you and I have, we will need more advanced technology.
Sometimes I think that what we are told is quality of life is really . . . just technology. Humanity is based on social structures, not technology. Lately our technology mostly serves to isolate us socially. An iPhone in every pocket is not an improvement.
The first use of any technologies, probably the heat proof matter part, would be for nuclear missiles to hit Russia faster than they can hit America with theirs. Apparently Kennedy had agreed to share this with the Soviets just before he was conveniently assassinated.
Not at hand, it’s something I read about years ago. I’ll search again and post it here if I find it. There’s been so much speculation over the years about the JFK assassination this one barely seemed credible but now,,?
Excuse me. "A runaway energy crisis, together with resource depletion, climate change and ecosystems collapse will upend centuries of growth and prosperity" is just a story we're being fed to induce fear and compliance. Ignore it. Turn off your televisions. The crisis is that organizations like the WEF are worrying that they are running out of time to bludgeon us into compliance with their fantasies. Turn your back and raise your middle finger.
I do subscribe to that basic Limits To Growth projection from 1972. It has been tracking pretty well for all of these years, and I believe industrial output probably did inflect in late 2018, along with peak net oil and liquids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
If I'm wrong, I'll be much relieved, but I think COVID-lockdowns and "going direct" to big banks and financiers was what peak-oil ended up looking like.
This problem of reducing our energy use rhymes with reducing the number of children. White Ango-Saxon Protestants and White Catholics eat up this bullshit as we are replaced. We are deindustrializing Europe and America while BRICS and Eurasia modernize.
Let’s put Climate Change and Limits to Growth aside until we can exterminate those that started the lie. Then, we do some real “science” of population and climate.
I am a strong proponent of permaculture and regenerative agriculture. We will be fine once again, when the Rockefeller and Rotschild families are all dead.
We can look at climate-change more for what it may actually be, which is not CO2 orthodoxy. I think it looks worse and more complex, something we need to adapt to as it happens.
The Limits To Growth story is the same, as I see it. Global economy is 90% correlated with oil, and net-oil (and liquids, which don't make Diesel) peaked in late 2018.
The sooner the world honestly faces this, the better.
Until then, Russia has a huge edge, because Russia did not peak yet in prosperity, or even prosperity per capita.
For decades, it’s been forbidden to import EU cars that do better than 60mpg -- because seeing is believing and the dark side doesn’t want improvements to be seen. I absolutely do not believe that energy solutions cannot abound except for ignorance and greed and brainwashing. The problem is spiritual.
Oddly enough, it’s very hard to buy a usable car that does better than 60 mpg here in the EU. I’ve finally figured out why, the car firms over here better hurry up and get the EU to ‘un-ban’ ICE cars before China eats there and our lunch for us with there electric cars.
The EU runs a lot of Diesel, which is denser fuel, so Diesel mileage is naturally higher than with gasoline. Gasoline is basically a useful waste product of refining things that industry needs, like Diesel.
The Toyota Prius mix is pretty good, with a bit of regenerative braking and a small battery to boost the car back up after stopping, and for brief acceleration. More battery is too heavy and expensive.
There are inefficiencies to all engines, so the main gains are regenerative braking, and using a small engine for baseline power, and a bit of battery boost for brief power bursts.
The car needs to be light, and especially needs to have low wind resistance, so small and a bit aerodynamic. The Prius and the original Honda Insight were very carefully engineered. The Honda was smaller.
Maybe Ukraine should just surrender to Russia. Before the taxpayers of other nations bankrupt themselves funding Ukraine.
I think BlackRock and other financial institutions are very scared of losing-their-assets in Ukraine, and I hope they do. Yes, surrender, but nobody in power gets paid to surrender, and some are paid to kill those who would even negotiate with Russia.
If this keeps going Ukraine will be a landlocked rump-state.
Is that something like a rump-roaet?
Susan, apart from paying a few mercenaries, the coke sniffers in government and the MIC, the money paid to "Ukraine" loops back into nefarious pockets in USA and Israel. It's all about dunning the serfs for their last dime.
Framing everything under the energy umbrella is the only way I can make sense of the system jitters.
Thanks for the round up John. I’m reading less about war, genocide and policy at present. I’m going to focus on getting the last $20k of the mortgage paid and doomsday prep a lot more. I would have mulched those branches!
As I explained above, the City of Austin mulches them and then composts it all with "municipal waste. "Dillo Dirt" sells for pretty cheap.
I’m just saying it’s so dry here it wouldn’t leave the property!
And you have a big property, too. I have a kitchen compost bin here in Austin, and in Yoakum we throw it in the banana patch. We hope to have a mild enough winter some year to not kill the green bananas.
Several thoughts arise about how Bidenismo can never die and never accountable- and honestly I doubt that being tortured due to January 6 would be prosecuted in this non existent nation. Once the masks were worn the nation decided slow and lingering seppuku was peachy. Each day reveals crimes impossible to ignore and yet ignored. The sad conclusion is that a nation of serfs shouts as mounting the scaffold for hanging themselves “Long live the Tsar” and so it goes. Men prefer slavery because of money and status as freedom only exists to buy more stuff and get out of Dodge. I’m sorry for the nation. Robinson Jeffers saw this fate but he only was a poet.
I think normalcy is under attack from agents within, enemies within, but that doesn't mean that normalcy is dead. Certainly normalcy is not in the news. People don't want slavery, they want the old normalcy. I think the old normalcy is priced out, but if all of the wealth quit flowing uphill, and to Raytheon et al, a new normalcy could be good enough.
We could be honest about it...
Hmm. Right. I got the idea. Normalcy was the Jazz Age. Nice high culture scene then. Plutocrats had debonair. Not New York hillbillies or Texas oil men. And Henry Ford paid enough to buy his car. My mom was from rural KY in 1918. My Dad from Germantown Wisconsin and Polish in 1912. So I feel back to F. Scott and the Great Gatsby. Normalcy. You recall the overall culture before the first youth wave started to hit shore and changed Normal into NORML and took the country for a walk on the wild side. That culture's world arose from Imperial warfare by the Federal Unit of Das Kapital. I am presently reading Robert Louis Stevenson on the 8 year Samoan civil war of the 1880's-Germans, English, Americans felt entitled to Samoa and disputed it through gunboats and proxies. Germans and Americans almost went to war and Germans in the US strove to be low key about being German. Normalcy. WW1 maybe not normal. Took a while to get "Over There." WW2 for sure the New Normal that lingered into Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and now Gaza in a way as Biden uses the Israeli Department of Das Kapital to fight.
That's a lot of tree trimming! Good for you. And I find myself agreeing with the woman about mulching. Ifyou've got that many trees, you can certainly use a shredder. Then you take the shredded material and use it in your garden as mulch. A nice circle.
It is a big hackberry tree that hangs over our fence in Austin and drops millions of hackberry seeds in my garden, but not this year. More pictures to come. The city (Austin) picks up and shreds and composts all those bundles and I can get the compost from their processor for cheap.
Concerning the inevitable energy/ecological collapse: Certainly UFO disclosure is a factor in the coming crisis. If Grusch and Elizondo and Lazar are to be believed, there are transformative technologies available that will vastly increase our ability to support humans with a small ecological footprint, and also vastly increase our ability to destroy one another and the planet. If these Congressional UFO hearings are part of a grand hoax, there may be a false flag war with imputed extraterrestrials in our future, designed to unite mankind and make us all obey.
I sort of agree, Josh, but we can't be trusted with anything nice until we stop obsessing with killing people who won't become our slaves. (I use "we" so loosely as to misstate the groups involved. The "owners" act as a different sub-species.)
I think those of us who do not have those traits should grow veggies, ride bikes, be friends and conserve resources, whether anybody compliments us or not.
:-)
Yes, we have no choice but to develop close community and local self-reliance. Whether we believe in technology or not, it will be taken from us for a time. It is my hope that when we recover from this crisis, when we build a new world, some of our best technologies will be preserved and made available. Worldwide connectedness via the internet is precious to me. I have friends all over the world.
We are communicating through the internet while we can.
:-D
I also have friends across our fair planet.
Looking to technology for a fix is a con. Let's look to our inherent humanity, even spirituality for truth.
Of course we need to outgrow our violence and find our connection to one another and to Life. But why does that preclude advanced technology?
The quality of life that you and I enjoy depends on technology, and if we want more people to have what you and I have, we will need more advanced technology.
Sometimes I think that what we are told is quality of life is really . . . just technology. Humanity is based on social structures, not technology. Lately our technology mostly serves to isolate us socially. An iPhone in every pocket is not an improvement.
We've got a lot of inorganic technology these days. What if we learn to excel with harmonizing living ecosystems?
The way of the Tao is reversal, right? We have swung really far into Yang.
:-)
The first use of any technologies, probably the heat proof matter part, would be for nuclear missiles to hit Russia faster than they can hit America with theirs. Apparently Kennedy had agreed to share this with the Soviets just before he was conveniently assassinated.
I have not heard about Kennedy agreeing to transfer any military technology like that. It seems like a pointless-step-too-far. Do you have any link?
Not at hand, it’s something I read about years ago. I’ll search again and post it here if I find it. There’s been so much speculation over the years about the JFK assassination this one barely seemed credible but now,,?
Thanks.