Energy Depletion Dismissal is Just as Bad as Climate Change Denial
Climate change denial is often decried by many, but energy depletion dismissal – and by Naomi Klein of all people – could have consequences just as dire [part 1/4]
Sep 15, 2016 • 13 min read • comments
Energy Depletion Dismissal is Just as Bad as Climate Change Denial
The West's Abetment of an Islamic State in Turkey?
Surely the United States wouldn't condone “radical Islam” right? For if it did, controlling a country would be as easy as controlling a few clerics [part 3/3]
Aug 29, 2016 • 12 min read • comments
The West's Abetment of an Islamic State in Turkey?
The Backstory to the Attempted Turkish Coup
“Better the devil you know than the devil you don't”, which is perhaps useful when you know which one of them you know better than the other [part 2/3]
Aug 19, 2016 • 10 min read • comments
The Backstory to the Attempted Turkish Coup
Erdoğan's Shift From American to Russian Fossil Fuels?
Regardless of whether the attempted Turkish coup was real or not, could control of an energy conduit have been the underlying motive? [part 1/3]
Aug 10, 2016 • 11 min read • comments
Erdoğan's Shift From American to Russian Fossil Fuels?
Monofloral and Manuka Honey: Honey-Hunting the Honeybee to its Demise, With Love
Monofloral honeys are yet another empty money-making scheme, exposing vulnerable honeybees to the toxic environments of monocultures
Jul 21, 2016 • 9 min read • comments
Monofloral and Manuka Honey: Honey-Hunting the Honeybee to its Demise, With Love
Make America Poopable Again: The Great Toilet Debate That Wasn't
The solution to the transgender restroom debate lies in the question affecting us all: What do we do with our effluents as industrial civilisation collapses?
Jul 11, 2016 • 14 min read • comments
Make America Poopable Again: The Great Toilet Debate That Wasn't
Book Review | The Scoop On Poop
Dan Chiras: “The most affluent have become the most effluent”; Dr. Pooper: "You humans have big brains, but you've got even bigger assholes"
Jul 1, 2016 • 7 min read • comments
Book Review | The Scoop On Poop
Book Review | The Oracle of Oil
A review of Mason Inman's new book, a timely inquiry into Peak Oil's progenitor
Jun 21, 2016 • 9 min read • comments
Book Review | The Oracle of Oil
Donald Trump, Anthony Bourdain, and the Plight of their (Indentured) Mexicans
Build a wall and deport undocumented Mexicans? How else could the US' (posh) way of life exist if not off the back of (indentured) Mexican labourers?
Jun 10, 2016 • 6 min read • comments
Donald Trump, Anthony Bourdain, and the Plight of their (Indentured) Mexicans
Note to Bernie Sanders: Something is More Than Rotten in the State of Denmark, and Peak Oil is Coming to Take it Away
Denmark is often lauded as a social utopia, but what might the end of cheap and plentiful energy-dense fossil fuels have in store for such platitudes?
May 31, 2016 • 9 min read • comments
Note to Bernie Sanders: Something is More Than Rotten in the State of Denmark, and Peak Oil is Coming to Take it Away

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