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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)

Time to Question the Pie (September 17, 2015)

Forget Pipelines, Focus on Population Reduction (September 17, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: How Our Energy Problem Leads to a Debt Collapse Problem (September 17, 2015)

What did we learn from 2008? (September 17, 2015)

Our Leaders Are Stupid But Not That Stupid (September 12, 2015)

By Robert Marston Fanney: How Climate Change is Spurring a Global Refugee Crisis to Rapidly Worsen (September 5, 2015)

By Nicole Foss: The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space (plus interview) (August 29, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: Deflationary Collapse Ahead? (August 26, 2015)

By Gail Zawacki: Dispatch from the Endocene, #9 (August 17, 2015)

By Fast Eddy: How the World Really Works (August 12, 2015)

By Mac10: Globalized Death Star Countdown Sequence Has Commenced (August 12, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: How Economic Growth Fails (August 11, 2015)

My Election Platform (August 11, 2015)

By Mac10: Locus of Denial: Why I Don’t Watch CNN (August 11, 2015)

By Eric Holthaus: The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here (August 5, 2015)

By Eric Holthaus: Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning: More than 10 feet in 50 years (July 20, 2015)

By Nicole Foss: The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth (July 20, 2015)

All Roads Lead to the Same Destination (July 5, 2015)

50/50 Democracy (July 4, 2015)

Post Peak Oil Choice: Inflation or Deflation? (June 29, 2015)

Peak Oil and Debt (June 27, 2015)

Greeks and Referendums (June 27, 2015)

By Richard Smith: China’s Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse (June 26, 2015)

The Green Party Should Change Its Name (June 25, 2015)

My Certainties and Uncertainties (June 24, 2015)

Popes and Words (June 24, 2015)

Refugees Coming or Going? (June 24, 2015)

Renewables (June 24, 2015)

Efficiency (June 24, 2015)

Let’s Pray for a Quick Crash. Amen. (June 19, 2015)

When Did We Become Hooked On Growth? (June 17, 2015)

Denial Is An Amazing Thing (June 15, 2015)

By Euan Mearns: Global Energy Trends (June 13, 2015)

By Gail Tverberg: Why Oil Forecasts are Too High (June 10, 2015)

By Alice Friedemann: Offshore Wind: Short-lived, Risky, Expensive (June 7, 2015)

By Nate Hagens: There is No Green without Lean (June 7, 2015)

By George Mobus: The Hopeless State of Education (June 7, 2015)

By Suzanna Jones: Betraying the Environment (June 7, 2015)

Some Forms of Denial Are Worse Than Others: On Bill McKibben (June 6, 2015)

Not a Clue (Martin Weitzman EconTalk Interview) (June 2, 2015)

By Guy McPherson: Climate-Change Summary and Update: The Case for Near Term Extinction (May 30, 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 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.

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?

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.

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.

One of the most, if not the most, precious and rare things in the universe is the human brain. We have a cosmic obligation to use it and to confirm it works.

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