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The Oceans are Coming Part II — Living on the Land

Are you still talking about Cyclone Nargis? Have you ever heard of Cyclone Nargis? Here's a reminder: on 1 May 2008 a weakening low-pressure system suddenly picked up energy as it approached Burma from the Bay of Bengal. By the second day of this rapid strengthening, Cyclone Nargis was blowing in excess of 135MPH and made landfall on the low-lying southern coast of Burma armed with vast reserves of cyclonic energy, a storm surge beneath, and constant heavy rain from above. The Irrawaddy Delta...

A Brisk Day in Hell

Today the Wall Street Journal ran an interview with Mike Ruppert (who got me started by publishing my first article on his site, From The Wilderness). It is a sympathetic article, in which the subject of the imminent, inevitable collapse of industrial civilization is afforded a calm and thoughtful treatment.

Feed that to your donkey!

Anthropoclastic Climate Change

When I published the previous article about the ever-more-dire forecasts of ocean level rise, little did I know that I was blundering into the midst of a "climate change debate." But then many readers reacted to this article by making comments to the effect that "climate change is a hoax" or that I am "just like Al Gore." Since that article reviews and attempts to interpret of some of the most authoritative, conservative and consensus-based scientific reports available, it should not have...

The Oceans are Coming

By Keith Farnish and Dmitry Orlov

This article is the first part of a three-part series, which considers the effect of global warming on ocean level rise, and examines its effect from two perspectives: that of the landlubber and that of the seafarer.

Part I: The Global MistakeIn September 2009 the latest global temperature rise projections released by the Hadley Centre, part of the British Meteorological Office indicated an average rise of 4 degrees Celsius (that's a balmy 7.2°F) by 2055 given ...

A Faint Odour of Melons

There is an awful lot of rather fruitless discussion of finance going on these days. People hold public disputations on whether we have inflation (and you'd think we do if you've been forced to pay for your own food lately!) or deflation (certainly a fact if you've been trying to unload real estate!), or perhaps both of these at the same time? One thing is certain: a faint odour of one sort or another pervades the US financial system, and, as usual, we in the US are the last to know. Perhaps...

Édition française

Je suis heureux de proposer aux mes lecteures francophones quelques de mes écrits les plus importants traduits par Tancrède Bastié et par Jean-Christophe Godart (dans l'ordre chronologique).

Leçons post-soviétiques pour un siècle post-américain

Combler le "retard d'effondrement"

Les cinq stades de l'effondrement

Les meilleures pratiques de l'effondrement social

Définancialisation, Démondialisation, Relocalisation

Obama Wins Gorbachev's Peace Prize

I've said it here before: Obama is the new Gorbachev, the smiling face behind the crumbling imperial façade, the personable, non-threatening loser. Gorbachev got his Nobel Consolation Prize in October 1990; a year later the USSR was no more and he was unemployed.

In awarding him the Peace Prize, the Nobel committee actually did some good: by reaffirming his legitimacy as a leader, it helped to weaken the hand of the conservative forces within Russia, which later staged an unsuccessful coup in ...

Elephant, Anyone?

Just a quick note. This morning, Jim Kunstler published this:

" In my father's house are many mansions Surely one of them has a room with no elephants in it...."

And, if you read his piece, you may have asked yourself, "What elephants?" Well, how about this one:



Good night!

Marketing in a Small Town - Interview No. 3

Dmitry Davydov runs a popular Russian-language blog. Periodically we correspond, and publish the correspondence. [Here's the Russian original.]

DD: In the American (and not just American) media, one can periodically read about the barbaric Sharia law, according to which women can be stoned to death. Or about an eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold into marriage to settle her family's debts. There are entire Web sites devoted to "stupid laws", especially in the southern states, according to w...

Маркетинг в маленьком городе - Интервью №3

Дмитрий Давыдов - автор популярного русскоязычного блога. Периодически мы переписываемся, я переписку публикуем.

(For the Russian-challenged: click here for a lousy English machine translation.)

ДД: В американской (да и не только) прессе, можно периодически прочитать статьи про дикие законы шариата, когда женщин забрасывают камнями. Или о том, как Саудовскую девочку 8 лет отдали за муж за долги. Есть специальные сайты о «глупых законах», особенно в южных штатах, где нельзя заниматься сексом...