Economy

The Fossil Fuel Energy Cliff and the Great Oversimplification

Recent claims that renewables represent an inevitable energy descent are derived from a new form of 'energy blindness' that ignores the best EROI systems science.

19 min read

America’s Fossil Fuel Economy is Heading for Collapse – It Signals the End of the Oil Age

US oil production is about to peak, but the world is unprepared for the tremendous economic and political consequences. The only path through is energy and economic transformation.

11 min read

What South Africa’s blackout ‘collapse’ reveals about the global phase-shift and the death of Big Coal

South Africa is on the brink of societal collapse - a system-failure that represents what can happen if we fail to adapt to the current global phase-shift. With better choices, South Africa could become a hub of sustainable superabundance. That can only happen if we open our eyes to what’s possible.

13 min read

Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
6 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The degenerative impacts of our money system

  • Daniel Christian Wahl
8 min read
Daniel Christian Wahl

Blockchain Ecology: The Key to a Prosperous Economic Future

Never heard of a ‘blockchain ecology’? That’s probably because few are considering it, and it is critical in building polycultural systems.

  • Gunther Sonnenfeld
6 min read
Gunther Sonnenfeld

Liberal-Progressives: The Strategic Enemies of Change

The harsh truth, through tales from the trenches, about the social & environmental ‘impact’ spaces.

  • Gunther Sonnenfeld
10 min read
Gunther Sonnenfeld

Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse

And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

We’ll always have the Sun: solar energy and the future of humankind

  • Ugo Bardi
5 min read
Ugo Bardi

What’s really driving the global economic crisis is net energy decline

And there’s no going back. So let’s step into the future.

  • Jonathan Rutherford
11 min read
Jonathan Rutherford

Patagonia’s Big Business Miss

The iconic brand is lost in the liberal/progressive morass of political jockeying & carbon negative environmental imprints under the guise of ‘resistance’

  • Gunther Sonnenfeld
13 min read
Gunther Sonnenfeld

Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken

  • Graham Palmer
4 min read
Graham Palmer

How the renewable energy transition could usher in an economic revolution

  • Felix FitzRoy
8 min read
Felix FitzRoy

Why 100% renewable energy is feasible

  • Mark Diesendorf
11 min read
Mark Diesendorf

Why economic orthodoxy is a dangerous ideology that is destabilising the planet

  • Daniel Christian Wahl
6 min read
Daniel Christian Wahl

3 ways Clean Energy will make Big Oil extinct in 12 to 32 Years — without subsidies

As the old world dies, a new world is being born

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
12 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Why renewable energy matters: for your health, your job, and your safety

  • Sergio Gonzalez
10 min read
Sergio Gonzalez

How global economic growth will drown in Trump’s oil glut after 2018

All the oil on the planet can’t save a financial system in overshoot, but another world is still possible

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
19 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Brace for the oil, food and financial crash of 2018

80% of the world’s oil has peaked, and the resulting oil crunch will flatten the economy

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Solar can already generate more energy than oil, says major scientific review

And is twice as powerful than previously thought

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
4 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

UK military will use artificially intelligent lasers to expand Britain’s economic empire

Say what?

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
3 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years

British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
7 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Ex-World Bank chief economist exposes “failure” of austerity, deregulation

Joseph Stiglitz, a senior OECD expert, slams OECD’s own policies to prevent global slowdown

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
4 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed