All Posts (301-400)

COP21 Revisited (January 28, 2016)

By Nate Hagens: A Birds Eye View of the Future (January 28, 2016)

One Less Blog to Follow (January 27, 2016)

By Ron Patterson: A Closer Look at OPEC (January 24, 2016)

By Robert Marston Fanney: Warm Arctic Storms Aim to Unfreeze the North Pole Again — That’s 55 Degrees (F) Above Normal For January (January 23, 2016)

By Zero Hedge: What Crisis is the Gold/Oil Ratio Predicting This Time? (January 17, 2016)

On David Wasdell’s Apollo-Gaia Project: Denial to the Moon (January 14, 2016)

By Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Human: Pleasure and Happiness (January 13, 2016)

Cause for Hope, Despair, or Both? (January 13, 2016)

By Ron Patterson: Confessions of a Doomer (January 8, 2016)

Funny Noises in the Engine Room (January 7, 2016)

By Gail Tverberg: 2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle (January 7, 2016)

By Gail Zawacki: No Mercy (on trees) (January 3, 2016)

Peak Oil and Low Prices?? (January 3, 2016)

COP21 and Air Travel (January 3, 2016)

By RE: Descent to Darkness: 2015 Collapse in Words & Pictures (January 1, 2016)

By Robert Marston Fanney: Top Scientists Declare Links Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change (December 31, 2015)

By Ron Patterson: All Roads Lead to Peak Oil: Oh Shit Moment Now (December 21, 2015)

By George Mobus: Celebrating the Darkness of Winter Solstice (December 21, 2015)

Coincidence or Expected? (December 20, 2015)

By David Collum: 2015 Year In Review (December 19, 2015)

By Population Institute: Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot (book and video) (December 17, 2015)

Religion Evolves (Baba Brinkman): We Need a New One (December 17, 2015)

India Plans to Double Coal Output: Truth on Renewables Revealed (December 16, 2015)

Yellen and 0.25%: Will She or Won’t She? (December 15, 2015)

COP21: Doubling Down on Denial (December 13, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: Economic Growth: How It Works; How It Fails; Why Wealth Disparity Occurs (December 10, 2015)

By Steve Ludlum: Climate Tactics Redux (December 10, 2015)

By Zero Hedge: Beijing Pollution Red Alert (December 7, 2015)

Canada Shocks COP21 with Big New Climate Goal: It’s All Bullshit (December 7, 2015)

By Baba Brinkman: Make It Hot (rap on climate change) (December 6, 2015)

By Chris Martenson: Murder and Mayhem in the Middle East (December 6, 2015)

James Hansen and Denial (December 6, 2015)

By Gail Zawacki: Extinction Goes Glam: Celebrities in Denial (December 5, 2015)

Alberta’s New Policies: False Optimism (November 29, 2015)

COP21: Agenda (November 29, 2015)

By Jack Alpert: Sustainable Civilization Analysis (November 29, 2015)

Voting for Justin Trudeau: What’s the Objective? (November 29, 2015)

By Mac10: Peter Pan Society (on denial) (November 25, 2015)

By Dahr Jamail: Will Paris Climate Talks Be Too Little, Too Late? (November 24, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: Why “Supply and Demand” Doesn’t Work for Oil (November 23, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: Oops! Low Oil prices Are Related to a Debt Bubble (November 17, 2015)

By Nate Hagens: Wise Words on Justice and Peace (November 14, 2015)

Greenland’s Melting: Justin Trudeau’s on the Case: Not (November 13, 2015)

Debt and Denial: Mansions and Earthquakes (November 13, 2015)

un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial (November 12, 2015)

By Mac10: The Bonfire of the Sanities: Ready to Explode (November 11, 2015)

Green Denial: Burning Wood (October 29, 2015)

On Mac10 (Ponzi World) (October 27, 2015)

Not the Trees Too Damn It!: On Gail Zawacki (October 27, 2015)

By Nate Hagens: Carbon Fee and Dividend: It Won’t Work (October 27, 2015)

Is Austerity Rational? I Think So (October 25, 2015)

Good Guys in Denial: It’s Everywhere and Deep: On Kevin Anderson (October 25, 2015)

By Gail Zawacki: Fallen Leaves That Jewel the Ground (October 25, 2015)

Yuval Harari’s Sapiens (October 25, 2015)

A Summary of Our Predicament: Overshoot Is a Bitch (October 24, 2015)

Canadians Are In Denial (October 22, 2015)

Liberals Won: Party On (October 19, 2015)

Canadian Election Choices (October 11, 2015)

World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Forced To Begin Liquidating Assets (Zero Hedge) (October 5, 2015)

The Big Question: Can We Climb Down? (September 28, 2015)

Environmental Activists Should Refocus on Population Reduction (September 28, 2015)

By Mac10: Debt Is the Economy and You Can’t Spend the Future Twice (September 27, 2015)

Climate Scientists Damage Their Own Credibility (September 26, 2015)

By Radio Ecoshock: Science of the Coming Catastrophe (September 23, 2015)

By Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources (Peak Prosperity interview) (September 23, 2015)

Extra Special Idiocy or Not (September 23, 2015)

A Smile On My Death Bed (September 23, 2015)

By George Mobus: What is Really Behind the Refugee Crisis in Europe? (September 19, 2015)

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For explaining why humans are odd
To Varki and Brower we applaud
A great mystery they solved
With denial we evolved
And created the Higgs, overshoot, and God

Denial not only makes us believe in god, it is god, because denial created us, and denial may destroy us.

The singular emergence of human intelligence, and its ability to write and read this paragraph, evolved in a gene controlled machine with an unusually powerful computer, that was created by an improbable simultaneous adaptation for an extended theory of mind with denial of reality, and whose complexity was enabled by the increased energy per gene provided by mitochondria, that resulted from an accidental endosymbiosis of two prokaryotes, powered by an unintuitive chemiosmotic proton pump, that originated in an alkaline hydrothermal vent, on 1 of 40 billion planets, in 1 of 100 billion galaxies, and that planet had an improbable store of photosynthetic and geothermal generated fossil energy, that the species leveraged to understand and appreciate, the peak of what may be possible in the universe, before it vanished, because it denied the consequences of its success.

The human brain, the God it believes in, and the overshoot it enabled and denies, all resulted from the same improbable genetic adaptation that occurred about 100,000 years ago.

Varki’s MORT theory explains much of the strange water we swim in every day, and also explains why most can’t see the water.

Denial is the reality that must be most aggressively denied to avoid collapsing the house of cards that keeps us functioning.

The most amazing thing about human overshoot is that we do not discuss it.

You know you are in trouble when reduced CO2 emissions from an economic collapse caused by low-cost oil depletion is not sufficient to prevent civilization collapse from climate change caused by previously emitted CO2.

Our only choices are do we want to fall from a higher elevation later, or climb down from a lower elevation sooner?

What we should do but won’t do will happen anyway, unfortunately too late.

Things that can’t continue usually stop too late.

Truth is like poetry and most people hate poetry.

All 8 billion of us owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains; 6 billion of us also owe our existence to nitrogen fertilizer created from natural gas by Haber-Bosch factories.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Thermodynamics, expressed through genetics, creates beings incapable of not maximizing energy consumption.

Denial is evolution’s solution for permitting intelligence to coexist with our (Maximum Power Principle) subconscious decision makers.

While it digs its own grave, all the mind can do is entertain fantasies and create excuses.

When the only paying job in town is sawing off the branch which you are sitting on, you….saw away! You might refuse to saw and hang yourself from that branch, but the end is the same anyway, and that option is much less fun. — Cynic @Megacancer

Never underestimate the human capacity for denial. — Gail Zawacki

It is remarkable that a brain emerged from a cloud of hydrogen and figured out the laws of physics that governed, and possibly made inevitable, its own creation and destruction.

We have met the oblivious and they are us.

All 8 billion of us originated from one small tribe in Africa about 100,000 years ago that gave birth to a child with an improbable mutation for a more powerful brain that denied reality. The other tribes were soon toast and we took over the planet. We’re all close cousins. I love you all. Except the deniers.

Meaning comes from understanding why we can understand there is no meaning.

Way too many smart people with big reputations are wrong about everything that matters. Something’s gonna happen that gives them an excuse not to have to admit they were in denial.

The most precious and rare thing in the universe is the human brain. We have a cosmic obligation to use it.

Building a competition for maximum power on top of a finite energy source equals exponential build-out and collapse. — James @ MegaCancer.com

The fact that most believe in sustainable growth is proof that most are in denial.

Fire to cooking to intelligence to denial to god to plotting to capital punishment to self-domestication to Apollo 11 to 7 billion too many.

Nothing makes sense without the light of evolution and thermodynamics, and for one unique species that’s intelligent enough to understand both but chooses not to, you need to add denial to the list.

Lots of elephants in the room, but no adults.

A problem with a solution that does not require me to sacrifice anything does not require denial, unless the solution won’t work, like renewable energy.

And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And you, so not to be distracted from my command, deny reality.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. — Gustave Le Bon

Labor without energy is a corpse. Capital without energy is a sculpture. — Steve Keen

Debt is a promise to produce more wealth in the future than we do today, so that we can consume more wealth today than we could without debt.

One way or the other, population will fall. One way is civil, the other is not.

There is hope, and there is delusion. Both are comforting, but only one is plausible. — Nehemiah

The Green Revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise, the success of the Green Revolution will be ephemeral only. Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the “Population Monster”. . . Since man is potentially a rational being, however, I am confident that within the next two decades he will recognize the self-destructive course he steers along the road of irresponsible population growth. — Norman Borlaug

Cells vote for whomever offers the best chance of fulfilling their dream of becoming two cells.

My brain is just “the Universe aware of itself – with consciousness along for the ride” and it’s perfectly satisfied with that. — AArgot

Energy is the economy. Money is a call on energy. Debt is a lien on future energy. — Art Berman

You can’t taper a Ponzi economy. — Max Keiser

If you do not understand energy, you understand nothing.

We couldn’t save the Arctic, the Amazon or the last piece of cheesecake so it looks like we won’t be able to save ourselves. The end. — James @ Megacancer.com

‘peak demand for oil’ is the economic equivalent of saying the reindeer on St. Matthew Island faced ‘peak demand for lichen’ — Nate Hagens

What keeps me going is that it’s just so damn interesting that 99% of 8 billion people selectively turn off their impressive intelligence when confronted with something unpleasant like overshoot, despite it being in-your-face obvious, including the recursive fact that denying overshoot makes the outcome even more unpleasant. It’s amazing!

MORT is required to explain why people who understands MPP cannot escape MPP.

We formulated the laws of thermodynamics at about the same time we decided they didn’t apply to humankind. – Norman Pagett

Facts are not repealed by refusal to face them. – William R. Catton

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