Guy McPherson's blog

Rally time

It's rally time on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a positive day for the eighth day in a row to hit a year-long high amidst the longest streak since April of 2007. Before you get too excited about this bit of green-shoots news from the boys on murderer's row, let's consider the cause and consequences.

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A typical reaction

Occasionally when people talk to me about my new life in and around the mud hut, their conclusions include one of the following statements: (1) You're selfishly wasting your talent as an excellent and inspiring teacher. You should be teaching at the university, saving students, instead of preparing for economic collapse. (2) Don't be silly. The United States cannot suffer economic collapse. My responses go something like this:

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Problem solved!

Here's the agenda, to be completed within a year or two: (1) find, develop, and distribute an energy source too cheap to meter, and (2) overcome evolution.

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Change we can believe in

All the wishful thinking in the country can't resurrect a long-dead corpse. By the time president-elect Obama takes the oath of office, he'll have all the power of a quadriplegic EMT without a medical kit, much less a resuscitation device. And he'll be staring at a patient with a DNR order, courtesy of a lethal combination of inevitable geology and abysmal policy.

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Change has come

As waves of red ink from the Overdraft Ocean lap at the shores of The Check(book) Republic, the cry goes out: The economy must grow.

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A tiger’s tale

The Celtic Tiger is wilting under the pressure of rising energy prices. But in Ireland, as in the United States, it's politricks as usual: The government is shielding the sheeple from reality, frantically building airport runways and expanding the country's highway system to maintain the illusion of the status quo.

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