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Image | “I Give Up”, Informed Consent, Pt. 1, LiveCast Replay
“I Give Up”, Informed Consent, Pt. 1, LiveCast Replay
by Ivor

This week, Chris dissects the latest news and the outbreak of hepatitis in children. Most importantly, the looming energy and food crises are set to dominate 2022 and 2023.  Are you ready? He hopes so because your “leaders” are certainly not up to the task of dealing with even the most basic laws of reality…
“I Give Up”, Informed Consent, Pt. 1, LiveCast Replay
 by Ivor

This week, Chris dissects the latest news and the outbreak of hepatitis in children. Most importantly, the looming energy and food crises are set to dominate 2022 and 2023.  Are you ready? He hopes so because your “leaders” are certainly not up to the task of dealing with even the most basic laws of reality…
Image | Off The Cuff: The Limits & Prospects For Human Survival
Off The Cuff: The Limits & Prospects For Human Survival
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff I sit down with Richard Heinberg to discuss: Power: Richard’s new book How will humans deal with Earth’s limits to growth? Can capitalism exist in a de-growth economy? How solvable an issue is population growth? In the final stages of writing his newest book, Power: Limits and Prospects for…
Off The Cuff: The Limits & Prospects For Human Survival
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff I sit down with Richard Heinberg to discuss: Power: Richard’s new book How will humans deal with Earth’s limits to growth? Can capitalism exist in a de-growth economy? How solvable an issue is population growth? In the final stages of writing his newest book, Power: Limits and Prospects for…
Image | Off The Cuff: The Earth’s Lament
Off The Cuff: The Earth’s Lament
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris discusses: We’re Polluting & Depleting, For No Real Gain Why Shale Oil Reflects Our Wrongheadedness Time Is Fast Running Out Before The Real Consequences Arrive But There Are Many Ways To Do Things Better This week Chris looks at the big picture: the planet’s resources and humanity’s…
Off The Cuff: The Earth’s Lament
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris discusses: We’re Polluting & Depleting, For No Real Gain Why Shale Oil Reflects Our Wrongheadedness Time Is Fast Running Out Before The Real Consequences Arrive But There Are Many Ways To Do Things Better This week Chris looks at the big picture: the planet’s resources and humanity’s…
Why The Next Downturn Will Be The Most Destructive In Modern History — And Why You Must Act Now In Order To Preserve Your Wealth (and the Planet!)
by Adam Taggart

Our society’s pursuit of endless economic growth is unsustainable. We’re at the point where we’ve sabotaged our future by taking on too much debt, while at the same moment, we’ve started to run dangerously low on the resources necessary to run our modern way of living, straining key ecosystems in the process. But rather than…
Why The Next Downturn Will Be The Most Destructive In Modern History — And Why You Must Act Now In Order To Preserve Your Wealth (and the Planet!)
 by Adam Taggart

Our society’s pursuit of endless economic growth is unsustainable. We’re at the point where we’ve sabotaged our future by taking on too much debt, while at the same moment, we’ve started to run dangerously low on the resources necessary to run our modern way of living, straining key ecosystems in the process. But rather than…
Image | Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth
Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth
by Chris Martenson

Modern society is addicted to and engineered for perpetual economic growth.

Now, a fourth-grader can tell you that nothing can grow forever, especially if you have finite resources. But that simple realization is eluding today's central planners, despite multiplying evidence that growth is becoming harder and harder to come by.

This week's podcast guest is Professor Tim Jackson, sustainability advisor for the UK government, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey and Director of CUSP. Tim is also a full member of the Club of Rome.

He explains why the exponential growth rates of today's economies, and their associated rates of resource extraction/consumption, will not be able to continue for much longer — and why a pursuit of "prosperity" (defined much more broadly than simple consumerism) is a much healthier goal for humanity.

 

 
Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth
 by Chris Martenson

Modern society is addicted to and engineered for perpetual economic growth.

Now, a fourth-grader can tell you that nothing can grow forever, especially if you have finite resources. But that simple realization is eluding today's central planners, despite multiplying evidence that growth is becoming harder and harder to come by.

This week's podcast guest is Professor Tim Jackson, sustainability advisor for the UK government, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey and Director of CUSP. Tim is also a full member of the Club of Rome.

He explains why the exponential growth rates of today's economies, and their associated rates of resource extraction/consumption, will not be able to continue for much longer — and why a pursuit of "prosperity" (defined much more broadly than simple consumerism) is a much healthier goal for humanity.

 

 
Image | Ugo Bardi: The Banquet of Consequences
Ugo Bardi: The Banquet of Consequences
by Chris Martenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Growth is the problem; not the solution" says Ugo Bardi, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Italy's University of Florence and author of the recent book Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet.

In this week's podcast, Professor Bardi and Chris discuss resource depletion and its growing impact on geopolitical events and the world economy.

Ugo Bardi: The Banquet of Consequences
 by Chris Martenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Growth is the problem; not the solution" says Ugo Bardi, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Italy's University of Florence and author of the recent book Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet.

In this week's podcast, Professor Bardi and Chris discuss resource depletion and its growing impact on geopolitical events and the world economy.

Image | America the Vulnerable
America the Vulnerable
by JHK

For most people, the collapse of civilizations is a subject much more appetizingly viewed in the rearview mirror than straight ahead down whatever path or roadway we are on.

Jared Diamond wrote about the collapse of earlier civilizations to great acclaim and brisk sales, in a nimbus of unimpeachable respectability. The stories he told about bygone cultures gone to seed were, above all, dramatic. No reviewers or other intellectual auditors dissed him for suggesting that empires inevitably run aground on the shoals of resource depletion, population overshoot, changes in the weather, and the diminishing returns of complexity.

Yet these are exactly the same problems that industrial-technocratic societies face today, and those of us who venture to discuss them are consigned to a tin-foil-hat brigade, along with the UFO abductees and Bigfoot trackers. This is unfortunate, but completely predictable, since the sunk costs in all the stuff of daily life (freeways, malls, tract houses) are so grotesquely huge that letting go of them is strictly unthinkable. We’re stuck with a very elaborate setup that has no future, but we refuse to consider the consequences…
America the Vulnerable
 by JHK

For most people, the collapse of civilizations is a subject much more appetizingly viewed in the rearview mirror than straight ahead down whatever path or roadway we are on.

Jared Diamond wrote about the collapse of earlier civilizations to great acclaim and brisk sales, in a nimbus of unimpeachable respectability. The stories he told about bygone cultures gone to seed were, above all, dramatic. No reviewers or other intellectual auditors dissed him for suggesting that empires inevitably run aground on the shoals of resource depletion, population overshoot, changes in the weather, and the diminishing returns of complexity.

Yet these are exactly the same problems that industrial-technocratic societies face today, and those of us who venture to discuss them are consigned to a tin-foil-hat brigade, along with the UFO abductees and Bigfoot trackers. This is unfortunate, but completely predictable, since the sunk costs in all the stuff of daily life (freeways, malls, tract houses) are so grotesquely huge that letting go of them is strictly unthinkable. We’re stuck with a very elaborate setup that has no future, but we refuse to consider the consequences…
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