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A Look Behind Rising Food Prices: Population Growth; Rising Oil Prices;...
This is a guest post by Dr. Gary Peters. He is a retired geography professor and author of Population Geography. Rising food prices, crowned by a recent record high spike and chronicled in the graph...
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What President Obama Should Have Said Regarding Energy Policy
We meet here at a tumultuous time for the world. In a matter of months, we’ve seen regimes toppled and democracy take root across North Africa and the Middle East. One particular area of concern is...
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Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others
The world is clearly reaching many limits. This graphic below shows how I see man interacting with natural systems, back before man discovered fire and back before man became intelligent enough to kill...
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An Energy/GDP Forecast to 2050
We talk about the possibility of reducing fossil fuel use by 80% by 2050 and ramping up renewables at the same time, to help prevent climate change. If we did this, what would such a change mean for...
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Reaching financial limits–What kinds of solutions are available?
We live in a finite world. At this point, we seem to be reaching limits in several different areas: Cheap oil. Our economy runs on cheap oil, but there is a limit to the amount of cheap oil that can be...
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Climate Change: The Standard Fixes Don’t Work
World leaders seem to have their minds made up regarding what will fix world CO2 emissions problems. Their list includes taxes on gasoline consumption, more general carbon taxes, cap and trade...
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Oil Limits and Climate Change
They say that every cloud has a silver lining. If future energy consumption (which is mostly fossil fuel) drops because of a financial collapse brought on by high oil prices and other limits, then, at...
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Ten Reasons Intermittent Renewables (Wind and Solar PV) are a Problem
Intermittent renewables–wind and solar photovoltaic panels–have been hailed as an answer to all our energy problems. Certainly, politicians need something to provide hope, especially in countries that...
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Oil Limits and Climate Change – How They Fit Together
We hear a lot about climate change, especially now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently published another report. At the same time, oil is reaching limits, and this...
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Our Electricity Problem: Getting the Diagnosis Correct
What is really wrong with our energy system, particularly as it relates to electricity and natural gas? Are there any mitigations available? I have been asked to give a talk at an Electricity/Natural...
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Why political correctness fails – Why what we know ‘for sure’ is wrong
Most of us are familiar with the Politically Correct (PC) World View. William Deresiewicz describes the view, which he calls the “religion of success,” as follows: There is a right way to think and a...
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Why political correctness fails – Why what we know ‘for sure’ is wrong (Ex...
Most of us are familiar with the Politically Correct (PC) World View. William Deresiewicz describes the view, which he calls the “religion of success,” as follows: There is a right way to think and a...
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Have We Already Passed World Peak Oil and World Peak Coal?
Most people expect that our signal of an impending reduction in world oil or coal production will be high prices. Looking at historical data (for example, this post and this post), this is precisely...
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The economy is moving from a tailwind pushing it along to a headwind holding...
The problem is hitting limits in the extraction of fossil fuels We know that historically, many economies around the world have collapsed. We also know that there is a physics reason why this happens....
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Advanced Economies Will Be Especially Hurt by Energy Limits
Historical data show that, to date, a reduction in energy availability has mostly affected the US, European countries, Japan, and other advanced economies. I expect this situation to continue as...
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