Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future. In which localism prevails and power moves from the top-down to the grass-roots. Prosperity will decline and life will again be worth living.
By David Fridley, Richard Heinberg, originally published by Independent Media Institute March 15, 2024 Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress. Introduction The transition to renewable energy is inevitable given the current climate crisis and the fact that fossil fuels are a finite resource. To make the …
Copied from the Imagine Newsletter 31 January 2024 Tata Steel, the largest private-sector employer in deprived south Wales town Port Talbot, will cut 2,800 jobs by closing its last two coal-powered blast furnaces. Instead, the steelworks will invest in an electric arc furnace that can run on renewable power but at the cost of fewer …
26th January 2024 Today’s Round-Up of Economic News “The Next Global War. How today’s regional conflicts resemble the ones that produced World War II… “World War II began as a trio of loosely connected contests for primacy in key regions stretching from Europe to the Asia-Pacific—contests that eventually climaxed and coalesced in globally consuming ways. …
The title and quotations are copied from a recent essay by Karl North. It is good. It was an eye-opener because it introduced me to systems thinking about agriculture. It’s a super holistic way by a farmer who practices what he writes. I am grateful to Karl North for providing an introduction to his essay: …
A video of a lecture by Mark Mills making the point that the world would need hundreds of new mines to enable a growth-based economy to continue to be achieved.
