Five Times August

Consider the end result of all of the results the various actions in the world today...

Energy is EVERYTHING.  Always has been, probably always will be.  Rights and freedom in general is being (in my opinion) abrogated to drive conservation in a dystopic way.  Carbon credits is a great way to make money on "oil is running out and it's getting expensive."  Sadly, the truth is hard to come by. Alarmingly, addressing energy as a system allows one to isolate variables that can slow the decline. Some of those variables, if manipulated, are about as evil as I can imagine.  

Solutions are many, and distributed energy w/o a meter is sustainable - but not favorable to profit taking. So are co-op farms.  A "reset" not based on a debt based model but evolutionary in a positive way for the denizens of Planet Earth.  Open and honest debate, insulated from lobby groups and those funded by the mountain of fiat currency with an agenda can solve the problem.  Good luck with that!

 Gail Tverberg has been working in this area for decades, she has some good data to look at. The clip below was from 2015... Spot on for the time.  Imagine were on the back side of Hubbert's curve and ponder what YOU would do. 

 

Roper's curve above attempts to align population with energy.  One can argue about this curve, but oe cannot dispute it's historical accuracy.  Energy IS EVERYTHING.  

 Harrison Brown:

... within a period of time which is very short when compared with the total span

of human history, supplies of fossil fuels will almost certainly be economically exhausted ... We

are quickly approaching the point where, if civilization should, because of

some catastrophe, stop functioning, it will probably never again recover to its former self.

It is not difficult to see why this should be so if we compare the resources 

of the past with those of the present. 

 I might add, looking at green options that consider total energy from cradle to grave do not yield the net positive benefits of oil, coal or gas.  Green technologies as we currently understand them are not intrinsically viable - they cost more to mine, assemble, and recycle than they off set with energy production.  They are actually energy sinks.  Just a dead end that will actually make energy scarcity accelerate (except for those fortunate enough to have their own needs met through these technologies). They are not a global solution.  As for the digital economy - an iPhone has a supply chain that involves over 50 countries and resources that are global in nature.  Good luck with that when just one or two of those suppliers cease to function. Alas no iPhone, no apps and the "cloud" doesn't look so good any more! 

 -Lee

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