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Tag Archives: Peak Oil
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins Source: CounterPunch As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Biodiversity, capitalism, civilization, Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Civilization, Invasive Species, Jared Diamond, John Michael Greer, Peak Oil, politics, Progress, society, Steven Pinker, war
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Three Paths
By Erik Lindberg Source: Resilience To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged Anthropology, civilization, Conservatives, Degrowth, environment, Globalism, Globalists, Liberals, Peak Oil, Philosophy, Progress, Realism, society, Sociology, Sustainability
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Made For Each Other
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com Don’t be fooled by the idiotic exertions of the Red team and the Blue team. They’re just playing a game of “Capture the Flag” on the deck of the Titanic. The ship is … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Democrats, Economic Collapse, economic crisis, Global Banking System, Partisan Politics, Peak Oil, Republicans, Two Party System
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For Purely Technical Reasons
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov It is tempting for us to think that our technological choices—whether we choose to live in a city, a suburb or out in the country; whether we want to drive a pick-up truck, a … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, History, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged 1%, Automobiles, Batteries, Big Oil, Cars, Collapse, Economics, Electric Cars, Energy, environment, Lithium, Peak Oil, Precariat, Suburbs, technology, Traffic, Transportation
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Positively Thriving Through the Collapse of Civilisation
By Open Source: ZenGardner.com Have you ever watched something happening in slow motion? You can quite clearly see the end result, but nevertheless, you can’t quite believe in your mind what your eyes are seeing. Like when the twin towers … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged civilization, Collapse, Community, Conscious Evolution, Corporatism, empire, Energy, Global Awakening, Michael C. Ruppert, Peak Oil, society, spirituality, Transition Towns
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The Dying Americans
By Chad Hill Source: The Hipcrime Vocab I’ve often used the term “the final solution for the working class,” in reference to the current American policy towards its vast intercoastal peasantry who, for reasons of circumstance or inclination, do not … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged America, American Dream, Corporate Globalization, Dieoff, Dystopia, Economics, Education, greed, Health Care, Middle Class, Neoliberalism, Peak Oil, Poverty, society, suicide, technology, Working Class
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Oil and Money – Lessons Learned
This is a concluding post for an excellent 7 part long-form series featured on the Hipcrime Vocab blog. While this serves as an adequate synopsis of what was covered, I highly recommend the series for it’s depth and scope starting … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Labor, Militarization, Social Control, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged automation, Automobiles, Carbon Emissions, Cars, Coal, Crumbling Infrastructure, Debt Crisis, Dmitry Orlov, economic inequality, Economics, economy, Environmental Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Gas, Immigration, Industrial Civilization, Market Speculation, Mixed Economy, Neoliberalism, oil, Peak Oil, petrodollar, Petroleum, Wealth Disparity
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Ready Or Not… The unsustainable status quo is ending
By Chris Martenson Source: Peak Prosperity I have to confess, it’s getting more and more difficult to find ways of writing about everything going on in the world. Not because there’s a shortage of things to write about — wars, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Recession, society
Tagged Chris Martenson, Economic Collapse, global economic crisis, Peak Oil, Peak Prosperity
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