How a (False?) Flag Debate and a Rent-a-Prime-Minister Assisted New Zealand in Relinquishing its Sovereignty
Place your vote in New Zealand's follow-up rent-a-Prime-Minister flag referendum!
May 25, 2016 • 9 min read • comments
How a (False?) Flag Debate and a Rent-a-Prime-Minister Assisted New Zealand in Relinquishing its Sovereignty
Forget Austerity and Grexit – it's Time for a Gretaway!
Austerity and “Grexits” will increasingly result in people getting triaged from the industrial economy and basics such as food. The alternative? Gretaway! [part 3/3]
Sep 30, 2015 • 9 min read • comments
Forget Austerity and Grexit – it's Time for a Gretaway!
Crashing Oil Prices Aren't Due to an Oil Glut But to Demand Destruction and Peaking Credit
Since money is a proxy for energy, energy's limits are putting a damper on credit creation. Could this be the cause for plunging stock markets & oil prices? [part 2/3]
Sep 11, 2015 • 9 min read • comments
Crashing Oil Prices Aren't Due to an Oil Glut But to Demand Destruction and Peaking Credit
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Fractional-Reserve Banking, Meet Peak Oil
Peak oil's supply constraints are said to lead to an increase in prices. But does fractional-reserve banking's tie-in not instead imply decreased prices? [part 1/3]
Sep 1, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Fractional-Reserve Banking, Meet Peak Oil
How Sustainable Can Cities Be When They Can't Even Deal With Their Own Shit?
Cities of all sizes are built upon sewage systems based on an array of fossil fuel inputs – and the levees are starting to overflow
Aug 11, 2015 • 6 min read • comments
How Sustainable Can Cities Be When They Can't Even Deal With Their Own Shit?
Confidence Scheming New York City-Styles
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Climate Change's Upcoming Floods
Aug 3, 2015 • 6 min read • comments
Confidence Scheming New York City-Styles
Is Democracy Hitting the Fossil Fuels too Hard?
Fossil fuels have allowed for a modernity that places a stronger inclination on the various guises of narcissism than on genuine civic participation
Jul 14, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
Is Democracy Hitting the Fossil Fuels too Hard?
Neither Crowdfunding, Nor Oxi, Nor Anything Else Can Stave Off Greece's Systemic Collapse
A recent crowdfunding campaign to bail out Greece does little more than obfuscate the role that energy shortages play in Greece’s systemic collapse
Jul 7, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
Neither Crowdfunding, Nor Oxi, Nor Anything Else Can Stave Off Greece's Systemic Collapse
Teaching Ourselves Out of the Industrial Economy
Teaching ourselves out of our jobs and professions before they're pulled out from underneath us might come in rather handy
Jun 30, 2015 • 3 min read • comments
Teaching Ourselves Out of the Industrial Economy
What Do Climate Change Films Teach Us About Climate Change?
Do climate change films assist us in reducing our fossil fuel consumption or pacify us into watching ever more film and television and spewing out more CO2?
Jun 23, 2015 • 8 min read • comments
What Do Climate Change Films Teach Us About Climate Change?

A former filmmaker, now jawboning on the collapse of industrial civili­s­a­tion and the renewal of culture. .

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