Fight the Right<p>20 million plug-in cars sold in China<br> By the end of 2024, there had been 10 million plug-in cars (EV and plug-in hybrids) sold in China. This year, it looks as if another 10 million will be sold. It took 14 years to get to the first 10 million, and will likely take just one year to get to the second 10 million.</p><p><a href="https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/04/20-million-plug-in-cars-sold-in-china.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">volewica.blogspot.com/2025/04/</span><span class="invisible">20-million-plug-in-cars-sold-in-china.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plugins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plugins</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a></p>
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ottawa.place/@Dianora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Dianora</span></a></span> There are a few other economic concepts which are IMO key to developing any remedies and/or alternatives. I'll try to touch on the major ones here.</p><p><strong>Wage/Rent pricing,</strong> mentioned above, is a key stumbling point. Smith:</p><blockquote><p>A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AThe_wealth_of_nations%2C_volume_1.djvu/135" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3A</span><span class="invisible">The_wealth_of_nations%2C_volume_1.djvu/135</span></a></p><p><strong>The Law of Rent and Iron Law of Wages</strong> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_r</span><span class="invisible">ent</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law</span><span class="invisible">_of_wages</span></a>) dictate that these dynamics are <em>always</em> in conflict and play, and crush the working class, most especially those who live by wage labour (or worse: piecework pay, see Smith's discussion of this for an eye-opener), and rent rather than own their domeciles. Both concepts date to the 18th / early 19th centuries, but are largely ignored in contemporary orthodoxy.</p><p>The "obvious" solutions, of, say, providing free/subsidised essentials to the working class or of critical goods and services (food, clothing, housing, education, healthcare) <em>largely further exacerbate the existing perverse market dynamics</em>. <strong>I am not saying DON'T help those in dire need.</strong> What I <em>am</em> saying is that if this is the sole and widespread remedy, that the underlying problems get worse: wages fall (because "welfare" benefits subsidise its costs rather than employers paying a living wage), education, housing, healthcare and other services get <em>more</em> expensive (because subsidies provide additional revenues).</p><p>Winston Churchill (another unlikely champion) noted this in 1906:</p><blockquote><p>Some years ago in London there was a toll bar on a bridge across the Thames, and all the working people who lived on the south side of the river had to pay a daily toll of one penny for going and returning from their work. The spectacle of these poor people thus mulcted of so large a proportion of their earnings offended the public conscience, and agitation was set on foot, municipal authorities were roused, and at the cost of the taxpayers, the bridge was freed and the toll removed. All those people who used the bridge were saved sixpence a week, but within a very short time rents on the south side of the river were found to have risen about sixpence a week, or the amount of the toll which had been remitted!</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.landvaluetax.org/history/winston-churchill-said-it-all-better-then-we-can" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">landvaluetax.org/history/winst</span><span class="invisible">on-churchill-said-it-all-better-then-we-can</span></a></p><p>Instead, a <em>dual strategy</em> of <strong>taxing rents</strong> (generally: providers of the goods/services above or those acting similarly economically), and <strong>providing for increased labour bargaining power</strong> though an improved best alternative to negotiated agreement (BATNA) <em>and</em> coordinated negotiation power (a/k/a Labour Unionisation) is necessary. Both of course run into the Wealth is Power and Logic of Collective Action (Mancur Olson, 1965: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logi</span><span class="invisible">c_of_Collective_Action</span></a>) problems.</p><p>Direct subsidies / contributions <em>as emergency measures directed at dire immediate circumstances</em> are <strong>ABSOLUTELY</strong> of value. **But they should result in direction to directly addressing the rents/wages dichotomy.</p><p><strong>A business which <em>cannot</em> pay a living wage and survive economically is a charity conducted to the benefit of its owner at the cost of its workers,</strong> <em>or</em> is provisioning public goods which should see a subsidy in their provision <em>through tax revenues and transfer payments</em>. Below-subsistence wages and labour supports only exacerbate the underlying problem.</p><p><strong>Private ownership of real estate</strong> is a surprisingly recent development, displacing earlier feudal or monarchical rents (often very long-term leases) largely in the late 19th century. Among the few explorations of this history I've found is Simon Winchester's <em>Land</em> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(book)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(bo</span><span class="invisible">ok)</span></a>). And of course there's Henry George's <em>Progress and Poverty</em> (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty_(George,_D._Appleton_%26_Company,_fifth_edition)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikisource.org/wiki/Progres</span><span class="invisible">s_and_Poverty_(George,_D._Appleton_%26_Company,_fifth_edition)</span></a>), championing the Land Value Tax (along with: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Milton Friedman (!!!), to name just a few. Social housing has its failures, but also successes, including the Fuggerei (Augsburg, Germany, created by the Fugger family in 1516 and continuing to serve to this day: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>), Vienna, and Japan (through both market and government actions, in part through some idiosyncratic practices).</p><p>Housing <em>cannot</em> be both affordable <em>and</em> an investment asset. And of the two, the first function is primal.</p><p>Incidentally, I suspect that a large part of the US growth in homelessness may be directly attributable to going off the gold standard, itself a response to the country's peak-oil moment and reliance on foreign energy imports, driving banks and financial institutions to find an alternate asset class: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304603" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2</span><span class="invisible">1304603</span></a>.</p><p>Next are some more obscure economic principles, somewhat addressed in the mainstream, but highly underappreciated ...</p><p>2/</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/orthodoxEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxEconomics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>critique</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/rents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rents</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/LawOfRent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfRent</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/IronLawOfWages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IronLawOfWages</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MancurOlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MancurOlson</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/LogicOfCollectiveAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LogicOfCollectiveAction</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/RealEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealEstate</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/OilCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Fuggerei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fuggerei</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ProgressAndPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgressAndPoverty</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HenryGeorge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryGeorge</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DavidRicardo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidRicardo</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/SimonWinchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SimonWinchester</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/AffordableHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AffordableHousing</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/AssetHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssetHousing</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/BusinessAsCharity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsCharity</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/tootstorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tootstorm</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2001609/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2001609/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> US Oil Production to Peak in 2027, Natural Gas by 2032: EIA <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrudeOil</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrudeOilPrice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EIA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPrice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petroleum</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Shale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shale</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
Michael Blume<p>Danke, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@frederic2406" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>frederic2406</span></a></span> 🙏</p><p>Im Denken des <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Fossilismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossilismus</span></a> sind die Öl- und Gas-Lagerstätten sog. „stranded assets“, bedrohte Vermögenswerte, die noch unbedingt zu Geld gemacht werden sollten! Entsprechend skrupellos agiert der fossile <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Lobbyismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lobbyismus</span></a>. </p><p>Die wirtschafts- und politikwissenschaftliche Theorie dazu heißt <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/CarbonBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonBubble</span></a> , deutsch <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Karbonblase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Karbonblase</span></a>. Hat die frühere <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> - Theorie (deutsch <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/%C3%96lspitze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ölspitze</span></a>) rechtsaußen fast völlig abgelöst.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://troet.cafe/@PhoebeEule" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PhoebeEule</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nrw.social/@frankobert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>frankobert</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@iThreepwood" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>iThreepwood</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/warum-schaut-denn-niemand-hin-erkenntnistheorie-fossilismus-und-karbonblase/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-</span><span class="invisible">glaubens/warum-schaut-denn-niemand-hin-erkenntnistheorie-fossilismus-und-karbonblase/</span></a></p>
MiquelV<p>Remarco el fet que el <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/zenitdelpetroli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zenitdelpetroli</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a> ) és més un problema econòmic que no simplement d'energia. L'actual sistema econòmic, hegemònic al món, està basat en el creixement econòmic i no sabem créixer sense augmentar el consum d'energia. L'inici de la reducció del petroli disponible pot dificultar l'accés a l'energia i pot impedir el creixement econòmic; generant una crisi que provocarà augment de les problemàtiques socials; i afegeixo la dificultat a fer front als problemes ambientals.</p>
MiquelV<p>Primer de tot, cal fer un diagnòstic, que suposo que serà compartit. Estem en una situació insostenible i cal que canviem. Els problemes són molts: <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/Emerg%C3%A8nciaClim%C3%A0tica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmergènciaClimàtica</span></a> , crisi de <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/Biodiversitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversitat</span></a> ; no tinc clar si també coincidirem en la <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/crisiEnerg%C3%A8tica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crisiEnergètica</span></a> que vinculo amb el <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/zenitdelpetroli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zenitdelpetroli</span></a> ( <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a> ). I en el cas de l' <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/EcologismeSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcologismeSocial</span></a> també introduïm al diagnòstic les problemàtiques socials: <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/desigualtats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desigualtats</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/dretsHumans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dretsHumans</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/democr%C3%A0cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democràcia</span></a> , ...</p>
Miss Gayle<p>Yep. We're doomed.</p><p>PODCAST excerpt:<br>The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers’ Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War.</p><p>Podcast link: <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-03-24/the-mad-scramble-for-power-global-superpowers-strategies-for-energy-economics-and-war/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">resilience.org/stories/2025-03</span><span class="invisible">-24/the-mad-scramble-for-power-global-superpowers-strategies-for-energy-economics-and-war/</span></a></p><p>PDF Transcript link: <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/67ddcf598c35381c0dcb96d5/1742589786506/RR+16+Transcript+%28The+Mad+Scramble+for+Power%29.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">static1.squarespace.com/static</span><span class="invisible">/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/67ddcf598c35381c0dcb96d5/1742589786506/RR+16+Transcript+%28The+Mad+Scramble+for+Power%29.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resources</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PeakEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakEverything</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feudalism</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/DeIndustrialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeIndustrialization</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/InfoTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoTech</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a></p>
Miss Gayle<p>PODCAST:<br>The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers’ Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War.</p><p>"If you wanna understand why the geopolitical fragmentation is going on...we're sort of in a race to the bottom to get what's left [of oil reserves in the ground]."</p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-03-24/the-mad-scramble-for-power-global-superpowers-strategies-for-energy-economics-and-war/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">resilience.org/stories/2025-03</span><span class="invisible">-24/the-mad-scramble-for-power-global-superpowers-strategies-for-energy-economics-and-war/</span></a></p><p>PDF Transcript: <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/67ddcf598c35381c0dcb96d5/1742589786506/RR+16+Transcript+%28The+Mad+Scramble+for+Power%29.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">static1.squarespace.com/static</span><span class="invisible">/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/67ddcf598c35381c0dcb96d5/1742589786506/RR+16+Transcript+%28The+Mad+Scramble+for+Power%29.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resources</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PeakEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakEverything</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feudalism</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/DeIndustrialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeIndustrialization</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/InfoTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoTech</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a></p>
mikell<p>Nou article al web d' <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@amturiel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amturiel</span></a></span> : "abandonad toda esperanza".<br><a href="https://crashoil.blogspot.com/2025/03/abandonad-toda-esperanza.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crashoil.blogspot.com/2025/03/</span><span class="invisible">abandonad-toda-esperanza.html</span></a><br>Em costa estar d'acord amb el supòsit que l'actitud del president de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ianquil%C3%A0ndia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ianquilàndia</span></a> sigui per fer front al <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zenitdelpetroli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zenitdelpetroli</span></a> ( <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a> ). Més aviat crec que són coincidències entre les propostes del <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Decreixement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decreixement</span></a> i les de l' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extremaDreta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremaDreta</span></a> .<br>I concloc que cal remarcar les diferències entre les propostes que reivindica l' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecologismeSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologismeSocial</span></a> respecte a aquesta deriva <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ultraLiberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ultraLiberal</span></a> .</p>
Fight the Right<p>EV sales in China skyrocket</p><p><a href="https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/03/ev-sales-in-china-skyrocket.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">volewica.blogspot.com/2025/03/</span><span class="invisible">ev-sales-in-china-skyrocket.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EVs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a></p>
Jim Garrett<p>Trump wants US oil producers to ‘drill, baby, drill. They’re not interested: Report | The Independent</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/drill-baby-trump-oil-producers-b2692370.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/drill-baby-trump-oil-producers-b2692370.html</span></a></p><p>> American oil producers want higher profits, not more crude just now</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a></p>
Franklin López<p>Twenty years ago, my buddy Greg Green made this banger of a documentary called The End of Suburbia. For those who don’t know, at one point—don’t ask me if this is still true—it was the best-selling documentary DVD in Canada. That’s partly because the Post Carbon Institute used it in a grassroots campaign to fundraise, and they moved a ton of copies.</p><p>This doc hit me hard. It made me hyper-aware of how fucked we are when it comes to our dependence on oil. At the time, it was groundbreaking, and it resonated with me because it was made in the DIY, independent media spirit that I love.</p><p>Greg recently sent me a clip where they reflect on the predictions made in the film—what they got right, what they missed. I’m stoked to see how they unpack this 20 years later.</p><p>If you haven’t watched The End of Suburbia, I highly recommend it. Still relevant as hell today.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f8iLZh4dMg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=1f8iLZh4dM</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a></p>
kali<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_ppmv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_ppmv</span></a></span> as a once smart person always used to say: "it doesn't have to be this way." most of these hard limits are indisputable. there will be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/limitstogrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>limitstogrowth</span></a>. </p><p>what is happening right now DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.</p><p>4 years down the road, whatever the world will be like then: what did you do to stop it?</p><p>and i know, most of my deep green ex-comrades, the answer right now is: "nil." to:"i waited for this burn it down."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a></p>
kali<p>THIS <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_ppmv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_ppmv</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a> = geological determinism<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senecacliff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senecacliff</span></a> = energetic determinism<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> = economic determinism</p><p>they were all wrong and all right at the same time. all these systems limits are reached at the same time. they are all happening or prone to happen in the next century.</p><p>yet still, currently it looks pretty much like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> of western civilization is initiated by confused people electing a physical & mental orange as POTUS .</p><p>now that should make y'all "go hmmm..."</p>
kimon keramidas<p>"Drill, baby, drill"? What for? Looks like the <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/oilmarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilmarket</span></a> is saturated and demand will be decreasing. Yes, it's <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/PeakOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeakOil</span></a> demand, thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/electrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electrification</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> policies. According to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Grist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Grist</span></a></span>: "The Gulf [of Mexico] accounts for 97 percent of all offshore oil and gas production in the U.S. Nearly 12 million acres are under active leases in the Gulf, but only about 2.4 million acres are being used to produce oil and gas"<br><a href="https://grist.org/energy/trump-wants-more-drilling-but-the-oil-market-is-already-saturated/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/energy/trump-wants-m</span><span class="invisible">ore-drilling-but-the-oil-market-is-already-saturated/</span></a><br>Graph from the <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/JRCGECO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JRCGECO</span></a> report.</p>
kali<p>anyway, i have been talking about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a> as a mathematical model of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> / systems failure / "how things go down", but there have been other ideas about that. peak oil was developed in the context of geophysics. hubbert looked a the behavior of oil wells over time & concluded: if the wells in a field all behave a certain way, then the entire field will grow, peak & decline in the same way & so we can extrapolate how world production will behave.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/talkcollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talkcollapse</span></a></p>
kali<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/talkcollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talkcollapse</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemsthinking</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/everything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>everything</span></a></p>
kali<p>one day i will have run though all of these, but for now this is what you get here.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/talkcollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talkcollapse</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemsthinking</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/everything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>everything</span></a></p>
kali<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_ppmv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_ppmv</span></a></span> and it would not even be helpful to think about what could be today's "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a>" end-of-world theory we will be surprised by 20 years down the road how it played out. we will always be humbled by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a></p>
kali<p>yesterday i said no one of my ex comrades is reflecting on their misinterpretations in the past. yeah, that's not exactly right and maybe was unfair. but it would only be helpful to learn something from that for the events today and they aren't. geological determinism has just become economic determinism, or geopolitical determinism or whatever the form of determinism is called that makes people think AI will end the world.</p><p>thoughts, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_ppmv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_ppmv</span></a></span> ?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peakoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakoil</span></a></p>
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