17-Feb-26
Book review "They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals" [ 04-Feb-26 12:47am ]
John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves [ 02-Feb-26 12:06pm ]
Peak Energy & Resources, Climate Change, and the Preservation of Knowledge [ 17-Feb-26 9:11am ]
Peak crude oil did not happen in 2018. But we are still running out of time [ 17-Feb-26 9:11am ]
Preface. Using EIA International Data for world crude oil + condensate oil monthly production to compare January through October in 2024 and 2025, it looks like about 850 million more barrels will be produced in 2025 than in 2024. And … Continue reading →
10-Feb-26
Sheriffs have too much power [ 10-Feb-26 12:49pm ]
Preface. In August 2017 President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio for disobeying a 2011 court order that barred his deputies from detaining people based on their immigration status. He was found guilty of continuing these traffic patrols for 18 months after … Continue reading →
04-Feb-26
Preface. This is a book review of Blake's 2025 They Poisoned the World: Life & Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. This is a history of how the existential threat of PFAs and other forever chemicals came to be. … Continue reading →
02-Feb-26
Preface. I first published this post in 2012 and have updated it today. Below I summarize a part of a 2012 article by John Howe on having one child per woman to stay under the oil depletion curve. In the … Continue reading →
29-Jan-26
Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy [ 20-Jan-26 12:49pm ]
Projections of business as usual from Meadow's et al "Limits to Growth" Preface. Clearly infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Returning the world to ecological health requires humans to live within ecological boundaries in a steady state economy. … Continue reading →
Part 5 Raven Rock. Hidey holes for government and military officials to carry on democracy after nuclear war destroys the planet [ 13-Jan-26 10:52am ]
Preface. This is the fifth part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die. There are many doomsday shelters listed in this … Continue reading →
Become a Bison rancher [ 06-Jan-26 11:36am ]
Preface. Far more buffalo can be grazed per acre than cattle and improve rather than destroy the ecosystem like cattle do. It's likely wild bison will return to the Great Plains in the future. Already there are fewer people in … Continue reading →
Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive [ 30-Dec-25 9:34am ]
Preface. This is the fourth part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. Clearly if the U.S. government … Continue reading →
Prisoners are treated worse than slaves in America [ 23-Dec-25 9:46am ]
Source: It's Time to Stop Using Inmates for Free Labor Preface. United States Prisons have 2.2 million in jail, 5 million on parole. How can Americans be so proud of themselves when our society has imprisoned one in a hundred … Continue reading →
Part 3 Raven Rock. The government's plans for after a nuclear holocaust [ 16-Dec-25 9:02am ]
This is the third part of a book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. This book stresses that a full … Continue reading →
Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government's plans to save civilians from nuclear war [ 02-Dec-25 10:29am ]
Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die. At the outset of the cold war, scientists proposed that nationalism had to go away to prevent nuclear wars, … Continue reading →
Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity [ 26-Nov-25 11:20am ]
Source: The Overpopulation Project (2020) Is overpopulation a dirty word? Too many people consuming too much Preface. Without fossil fuels, the carrying capacity of the planet would be around 300 million people. With fossils population has exploded 27-fold to 8.2 … Continue reading →
Part 1 Intro. Raven rock: the story of the U.S. governments secret plans to save itself after a nuclear war and let the rest of us die [ 19-Nov-25 11:03am ]
This is a book review of Graff's 2018 " Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die". This book exposes the government's plans to carry on government and democracy after … Continue reading →
The Nobel Laureate Assembly Declaration for the Prevention of Nuclear War [ 12-Nov-25 9:26am ]
Preface. Below is the declaration of the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War from a three-day gathering in Chicago of 20 Nobel laureates and 60 leading nuclear experts, aimed at creating recommendations for policymakers and leaders to … Continue reading →