Resource Insights

Independent Commentary on Environmental and Natural Resource News
By Kurt Cobb

Sunday, August 01, 2010

What will it take to convince people about the dangers of peak oil?

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As I watched the compelling interview of Michael Ruppert which was made into the movie Collapse , I found myself identifying with Ruppert...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Asymmetrical accolades: Why preventing a crisis almost never makes you a hero

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A friend recently related to me that the quality assurance manager at the pharmaceutical firm he used to work for was an absolute stickler f...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Adaptation and the long view

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One blade of grass is vulnerable to all sorts of shocks: drought, flood, infestation, and various human interventions including plowing and ...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Is net energy peaking?

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My latest column on Scitizen entitled " Is Net Energy Peaking? " has now been posted. Here is the teaser: When most people think ...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Whither the weak in the post-peak oil world?

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It is often said that the test of any civilization is how it treats its weakest members. Those who are compromised physically, mentally or e...
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Sunday, July 04, 2010

The complexity gurus and our margins of safety

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Human societies have long relied on specialists to help in complex matters involving the natural and human-built worlds. Ptolemaic astronome...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Laughs for doomers

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Boris Yelnikoff is a self-described "Nobel-level thinker" who feels beseiged by "microbes," one of his many terms for pe...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Memo to Kurzweil: The human-machine hybrid already happened and the results are pretty scary

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Modern people ridicule the search for the mythical fountain of youth , a search that has preoccupied our forebears through many generations....
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

No post this week

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I expect to post again on Sunday, June 20.
Sunday, June 06, 2010

The addict's excuse

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As I read Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's letter to President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking them to reconsider a six-mo...
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