Resource Insights

Independent Commentary on Environmental and Natural Resource News
By Kurt Cobb

Sunday, October 25, 2026

The contrarian long view: AI, bonds, and oil

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It seems that everywhere you look in the financial media these days there is persistent hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and th...
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Sunday, October 18, 2026

Sulfur and the emerging food crisis

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Sulfur has become an indispensable element for the modern industrial system including for agriculture. Before the outbreak of the Ira...
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Altman to humanity: Accept some bad things to get benefits of AI

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The leader of the most visible company hawking the future of artificial intelligence (AI), Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told Pol...
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Sunday, October 04, 2026

U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether climate suits can go forward

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Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether a lawsuit filed in state court in Colorado seeking damages...
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Sunday, September 27, 2026

Taking a break - no post this week

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, October 4.
Sunday, September 20, 2026

All energy is local: The emerging physical delivery problem for petroleum fuels

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Even as U.S. diesel and gasoline prices soared in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, both fuels remained widely...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Pipeline "solution" to Strait of Hormuz closure gone in a flash

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The East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia which delivers oil to the shores of the Red Sea has been an important workaround to th...
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Sunday, September 06, 2026

Strategic metals literally going up in smoke

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I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" ...
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Sunday, August 30, 2026

Conflict combines with climate change to push food supply down and prices up

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Two weeks ago I wrote about how conflict and climate change are combining to impede navigation across the globe . That same ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2026

AI destroys transgenerational memory by tearing apart rare books to scan them

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When I read that artificial intelligence (AI) companies are destroying rare books as they feed their contents into what are c...
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