By Other Authors (1-100)

By Tim Watkins: Climbing Everest in High Heels (aka “It’s the overshoot, stupid”) (December 11, 2018)

By Hugh Montgomery: Are Humans Like a Virus on Planet Earth? (November 27, 2018)

By Peter Watts: The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC (October 30, 2018)

By Jack Alpert: On Sustainability (without the bullshit) (October 20, 2018)

Good Times Bad Times: A Short Break from Denial (September 20, 2018)

By Tim Watkins: The Three Vortices of Doom (energy, debt, state) (September 13, 2018)

By Tom Murphy: The Energy Trap (we all scream for ice cream) (September 10, 2018)

By Tim Garrett: The Global Economy, Heat Engines, and Economic Collapse (September 5, 2018)

By James Kunstler: The Uncomfortable Hiatus (September 3, 2018)

By Bodhi Paul Chefurka: I’d rather light a candle than curse the darkness (August 7, 2018)

By Richard Nolthenius: Will the End of Growth Tame Climate Change? (August 4, 2018)

By Dave: Dear God (July 4, 2018)

By Alice Friedemann – On Fake Peak Oil Demand (July 4, 2018)

By Norman Pagett: The oilparty is over (and so is our food party) (June 24, 2018)

By Respect Silence: Why “Saving the Planet” is a Misleading, Lost Cause (June 24, 2018)

By Irv Mills: My Peak Oil Journey (June 14, 2018)

By Ajit Varki: Did Human Reality Denial Breach the Evolutionary Psychological Barrier of Mortality Salience? (June 8, 2018)

By Jean-Marc Jancovici: Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time? (May 20, 2018)

By Gail Tverberg: How the Economy Works as It Reaches Energy Limits — An Introduction for Actuaries and Others (May 11, 2018)

By Nate Hagens: Where are We Going? (May 10, 2018)

By Dahr Jamail: Update on the State of the Planet: How Then Shall We Live? (May 3, 2018)

By Sam Harris & Bart Ehrman: What Is Christianity? (May 2, 2018)

By Tom Murphy: The Future Needs an Attitude Adjustment (May 2, 2018)

By Jack Alpert: Unwinding the Human Predicament (April 29, 2018)

By Nate Hagens: Contrasts and Continuums of the Human Predicament (April 29, 2018)

By Ugo Bardi: The road to the Seneca Cliff is paved with evil intentions: How to destroy the world’s forests (April 23, 2018)

By Paul Mobbs: The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics – The Gaping Hole in the Middle of the Circular Economy (April 18, 2018)

By Paul Arbair: The World in 2018 (part 4) (April 4, 2018)

By Steven Spencer: Interview with Richard Nolthenius (April 1, 2018)

By Richard Nolthenius: The Thermodynamics of Civilization (March 27, 2018)

By Jay Hanson: Reality Report Interview (November 3, 2008) (March 26, 2018)

By Ajit Varki: Why are there no persisting hybrids of humans with Denisovans, Neanderthals, or anyone else? (March 26, 2018)

By Tim Garrett: Linking Wealth, Energy Demand, CO2 and Climate Change (March 25, 2018)

By James @ Megacancer: Shiva Dancing (March 25, 2018)

By xraymike79: Evolutionary Dead-Ends (March 19, 2018)

By Tim Morgan: The need for new ideas (February 23, 2018)

By Tim Morgan: Good idea, bad idea (February 2, 2018)

By Nate Hagens: Energy, Money and Technology: From the Lens of the Superorganism (January 27, 2018)

By Raúl Ilargi Meijer: 10 Years Automatic Earth (January 22, 2018)

By Ugo Bardi: Are We Decoupling? (December 31, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: The Way Ahead (December 28, 2017)

By Brian Davey: Limits to Economic Growth? (December 18, 2017)

By Jacob Freydont-Attie: The Cross of the Moment (December 2, 2017)

By Respect Silence: Blight for Naught: Wind Turbines and the Rationalized Desecration of Nature (November 28, 2017)

By Nate Hagens & DJ White: GDP, Jobs, and Fossil Largesse (November 27, 2017)

By Bjørn Lomborg: On Renewables (November 27, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: Death of a High-Fashion Model (aka Sustainable Development) (November 20, 2017)

By Richard Heinberg: Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly (November 17, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: Will things go bang soon? (November 13, 2017)

By JT Roberts: On Resources and How the World Really Works (November 3, 2017)

By James Hansen: Scientific Reticence (October 26, 2017)

By Gail Tverberg: The Approaching US Energy-Economic Crisis (October 18, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: SEEDS goes public (October 8, 2017)

By Richard Heinberg: Energy and Authoritarianism (October 8, 2017)

By Vaclav Smil: Energy Revolution? More like a Crawl (September 17, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: Why Mr. Trump can’t raise American prosperity (September 5, 2017)

By Alice Friedemann: German Military Study on Peak Oil (August 14, 2017)

By Chris Martenson: Signs of Distress (August 11, 2017)

By Kurt Andersen: How America Lost Its Mind (On the History of Denial) (August 10, 2017)

By Alice Friedemann: Why Did Everyone Stop Talking about Population & Immigration? (August 4, 2017)

By Richard Heinberg: Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk. (July 27, 2017)

By Ian Dunlop & David Spratt – Disaster Alley: Climate Conflict & Risk (July 27, 2017)

By Charles Hugh Smith: The Inevitability of DeGrowth (July 20, 2017)

By Ugo Bardi: The Three Phases of the Reaction to Existential Threats: Action, Deception, and Desperation (July 20, 2017)

By John Weber: Furnaces of Industry (Solar Energy is Not Renewable) (July 20, 2017)

By Ron Patterson: Africa in Peril (July 19, 2017)

By Raúl Ilargi Meijer: I read the news today, oh boy (On Zombies and Bubbles) (July 19, 2017)

By Ugo Bardi: When governments operate in “cheating mode” (July 17, 2017)

By Chris Martenson: The Looming Energy Shock (June 30, 2017)

By Alice Friedemann: Big Fight: 21 top scientists show why Jacobson and Delucchi’s renewable scheme is a delusional fantasy (June 24, 2017)

By Ajit Varki: Mind Over Reality Transition: The Evolution of Human Mortality Denial (June 16, 2017)

By Wolf Richter: What Happens When the Machines Start Selling? (June 16, 2017)

By Aaron Thierry: The Brutal Logic of Climate Change (June 12, 2017)

By Joe Barry: Over-population is the Real Cause of Climate Change (June 12, 2017)

By James Hansen: March 2017 Address to Young People (May 20, 2017)

By Jeff Goodell: The Doomsday Glacier (May 20, 2017)

By Nicole Foss: The Automatic Earth Primer Guide 2017 (May 18, 2017)

By Erik Lindberg: Economic Growth – A Primer (May 6, 2017)

By Gail Tverberg: Elephants in the Room Regarding Energy and the Economy (May 5, 2017)

By Nate Hagens: Blindspots and Superheroes (May 3, 2017)

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen: Book Review – When Trucks Stop Running by Alice Friedemann (April 30, 2017)

By Art Berman: Oil Prices Lower Forever? Hard Times In a Failing Global Economy (April 23, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: The Prosperity Equation (April 14, 2017)

By Ted Trainer: Your Oil Wake Up Call (April 8, 2017)

By Jim Quinn: Stupid is as Stupid Does (April 5, 2017)

By Gail Tverberg: Why Energy-Economy Models Produce Overly Optimistic Indications (March 29, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: Chinese Whispers (March 11, 2017)

By Geoffrey Chia: What you should not say in public… (March 1, 2017)

By Robert Marston Fanney: Antarctic Sea Ice Hits New All-Time Record Low (February 27, 2017)

By Nick Lane: Why is life the way it is? (February 17, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: A World Economy Snapshot (February 16, 2017)

By Jim White: Weather & Climate Summit 2017 (February 15, 2017)

By Steve St. Angelo: The Blood Bath Continues in the U.S. Major Oil Industry (February 8, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: In Pursuit of Safety (February 5, 2017)

By Tim Morgan: Perfect Storm Gets Nearer: Surplus Energy Economics Update (February 3, 2017)

By Tim Clarke: The Demise of the Global Oil Industry: Best Case 2022 (February 1, 2017)

By Alice Friedemann: Book Review of “Failing States, Collapsing Systems: Biophysical triggers of Political Violence by Nafeez Ahmed (January 31, 2017)

By David Spratt: Antarctic Tipping Points for a Multi-metre Sea Level Rise (January 23, 2017)

By NOAA/NASA: Annual Report: 2016 was 3rd Successive Record-Warm Year (January 18, 2017)

By Louis Arnoux: Twilight of the Oil Age: Out of Gas by 2030 (January 13, 2017)

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 7 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.

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