

In the Face of the Four Challenges "some are more equal than others"
While the choice is ours to make, it is important to also realise that, beside the core social issue of cognitive failure on the part of...


Overcoming Power Overshoot
Of course, it remains to be seen how far the global situation has to degrade before enough people realise that we have no longer any...


In the face of cognitive failure the choice is now ours
Professor Klare concluded his “30-year war” essay by making a bet: “Were I to wager a guess [for a range of most beneficial solutions], I...


Valuable know-how to unlock real wealth
The extreme solar paradox shows in a striking way that beside energy as the sole tangible, primary source of wealth, the other...


Solar Paradox - Paradigm Shift in Waiting
The enormous paradox in the present global situation is that in regard of the Four Challenges and of Prof. Klare’s anticipation of at...


End of Mythical Times - End of Wealth as we know it
Some readers may find the notion of myth as playing a central role in our supposedly rational world hard to digest. This calls for...
It's Thermodynamics!
The fact that EROIs are now in the process of passing below 10:1 has fundamental economic and financial consequences that run very deep....


Life Begins at 30:1
The dire global energy and ecological emergency makes it all the more important to identify and understand well the EROI thresholds that...


Peering Behind the Thick Veil of Paper Money
The red curve in Figure 4, page 19, shows the evolution of US GDP/head in barrels of oil (Boev). US wealth per head peaked in 1970 just...


Fourth Challenge – Global Emergency
Over the last two decades or so a number of key, global ecological thresholds have been crossed with drastic consequences in terms of the...