by John Duffy Humans are creatures of myth. We invent stories to help us understand our surroundings, but we then become slaves to those stories, and to the false truths within. The real world, is the physical world; the sun,…
Okay, I'm convinced. I've been wrong this entire time, but I'm willing to admit the error of my ways. It's time to move on. The industrial age will last forever, with no negative consequences for the living planet, including an…
by gregg brazel Peace and kindness to you, my brothers and sisters of all the lands and seas of this turbulent world. I hope you and yours are managing to maintain your sanity and lives in these dreary days. I…
How far will we go to secure energy? Clearly, to the ends of the Earth. And perhaps even to the end of the (living) world. Judging from their actions, most people I know are more to committed maintaining their imperial…
by Gary Peters If the animal kingdom were a democracy, Homo sapiens would have been voted off the planet long ago, when it first became apparent that human survival would not bode well for most others. There was no vote,…
Everywhere I turn, I read and hear about $200 oil in the near future (here's one recent example, from somebody who should know better, here's another from hyperinflation guru Gonzalo Lira, and here's another from historian Niall Ferguson. Investors are…
Late last week I was interviewed by KMO for the C-REALM radio show. The resulting podcast runs about an hour, and it's posted here (go directly to podcast here). All comments welcome, all the time. My monthly essay for Transition…