Topic: Economy (1-100)

By Nate Hagens: Earth Day 2020 – The State of the Species (May 28, 2020)

Gail Tverberg on what to expect… (April 21, 2020)

Providing Alcohol to an Alcoholic (March 5, 2020)

By James: Merry Christmas from the Big Bang (December 17, 2019)

By Nate Hagens: Reality 101 Short Courses (August 8, 2019)

Endgame (July 31, 2019)

Removing the Safety Valves (June 10, 2019)

Saving the World by Recycling My Garbage (June 8, 2019)

Mashup (March 17, 2019)

By Tim Watkins: The Green Deal is Hopium (March 6, 2019)

By Tim Morgan: Primed to Detonate (O O Canada) (February 18, 2019)

By Tad Patzek: On Human Overshoot (February 2, 2019)

By Nate Hagens: Reality 101: What every student (and citizen) should know (February 2, 2019)

By Gail Zawacki: Diva of Doom Interview (December 16, 2018)

Eat the rich, save the planet? (December 13, 2018)

Comfort on a Razor’s Edge (November 9, 2018)

New Badass in Town: Jean-Marc Jancovici (Radio Ecoshock interview) (October 31, 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)

On Oil (July 29, 2018)

On Shock and Awe (July 17, 2018)

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

James Hansen On and In Denial (June 26, 2018)

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

On a Red Queen: Diesel to get Diesel (May 29, 2018)

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

Amazed and Worried (May 14, 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 Nate Hagens: Contrasts and Continuums of the Human Predicament (April 29, 2018)

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

On the Trans Mountain Pipeline (April 10, 2018)

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

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

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

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

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

On Burning Carbon: The Case for Renaming GDP to GDB (February 8, 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)

On Onions, Gods, and Mars (December 5, 2017)

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

On Winning the Game (November 28, 2017)

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

Lunch Price Increase (September 22, 2017)

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

video review: Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil by Richard Smith (August 15, 2017)

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

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

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

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

Imagine You Are a Smart Leader (July 19, 2017)

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

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

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

Gigadenial (June 13, 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 Art Berman: Oil Prices Lower Forever? Hard Times In a Failing Global Economy (April 23, 2017)

On Why Things Appear (sort of) Normal (April 19, 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)

Monkeys Throwing Darts (March 30, 2017)

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

On the Tragedy of Trends (March 12, 2017)

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

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

Shame On Them (February 19, 2017)

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

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

It’s Time to Get Real: Trump’s a Symptom, Not the Problem (February 3, 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 Louis Arnoux: Twilight of the Oil Age: Out of Gas by 2030 (January 13, 2017)

You know you are in trouble when… (January 6, 2017)

By Nafeez Ahmed: Brace for the Financial Crash of 2018 (January 5, 2017)

Debt Up(date): This Will Not End Well (January 4, 2017)

By James Howard Kunstler: Forecast 2017: The Wheels Finally Come Off (January 2, 2017)

By Jim Quinn: A Biased 2017 Forecast (December 31, 2016)

By Chris Martenson: As We Enter 2017, Keep the Big Picture in Mind (December 31, 2016)

By Chris Martenson: Get Ready… Change Is Upon Us (November 11, 2016)

By Gail Tverberg: Why energy prices are ultimately headed lower; what the IMF missed (October 11, 2016)

By Nate Hagens: The Speech that should have been given at the Republican National Convention (July 28, 2016)

Bailing in the Wrong Direction (July 11, 2016)

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.

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.

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.

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.