As the window narrows (by Dr Tim Morgan)
Tim Morgans’ latest post provides much food for thought about the future.
UK care workers leave industry en masse after being told to get vax or quit, with unions begging govt to reconsider policy
The RT Newsletter reports that “The vacancies for care workers could total more than 170,000 people – with 70,000 being those who refuse the jab – after mandatory vaccination is implemented later this year, according to government estimates cited in the media”. This is a current problem with all the signs that today’s mindset underlies …
The Afghanistan Fiasco (and Today’s High Level of Conflict) Reflect an Energy Problem
Gail Tverberg’s latest post includes: [7] In a finite world, longer-term models need to take into account the fact that resources deplete and the population keeps rising. Any modeler who tries to take into account the fact that resources deplete and the overall population keeps rising will quickly come to the conclusion that, at some …
THE “NEW ENERGY ECONOMY”: AN EXERCISE IN MAGICAL THINKING
This is an extract from a paper by Mark P. Mill, Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Insitute A movement has been growing for decades to replace hydrocarbons, which collectively supply 84% of the world’s energy. It began with the fear that we were running out of oil. That fear has since migrated to the belief …
Who determines prices?
Tim Watkins latest piece concludes that: Since everything in the economy depends upon energy, and since the energy cost of energy is rising and can no longer be brought down, then we know that theoretically, the economy must shrink. We also understand that this forced de-growth is likely to begin in the discretionary sectors of …
A path of reason, part two: PUTTING IT TOGETHER – HOUSEHOLDS AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Tim Morgan’s latest blog
Power to Change
A new report from Power to Change provides more evidence that tackling change from the bottom-up is more effective than doing it top-down. The paper examines the role that community organisations can play in the government’s levelling up agenda. It argues that we need to develop a more coherent strategy for developing social infrastructure at …
GOOD IDEA, BAD IDEA: THE MERITS OF RENEWABLES, THE FOLLY OF EV
This is an example of seeing things from the bottom up. From the top-down electric vehicles (EVs) are seen to be a very good thing. Bottom-Up is how things really are. Link to Tim Morgan’s Blog
Technocracy Exposed
An interesting piece by Tim Watkins, in his blog “the consciousness of sheep” – Technocracy exposed (consciousnessofsheep.co.uk) – which concludes that – “The battleground for the future will have to involve some serious consideration to how we might once again establish democratic oversight and control over “the experts” to prevent the kind of corporate welfare …
Green Wizards
I have just come across this. Green Wizards is a website begun in 2010 about how do we learn the skills and knowledge we need to survive and prosper in the coming collapse of civilization. What Professor Bendell calls “deep adaptation”, we just call Life in the Long Descent. We are an outgrowth of the informative …