Welcome to Sublime Oblivion – Anatoly Karlin on Eurasia, geopolitics, and peak oil.

• Go to blog at http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/blog/.
• Just my geopolitics / futurist articles @ Sublime Oblivion (see sorted list, outside links).
• Just my Russia articles @ Da Russophile (see sorted list, outside links).
• Other major blog categories include Coffee House, Translations, and на русском.
• A list of links to interesting blogs and websites (there’s a small sample on the sidebar).
• Sublime Tweets @ Twitter.
• Sublime Oblivion blog @ Facebook, where you can also join the Russophile Union, become my fan, & read my informal Notes.
• Sublime Glossary with definitions of futurist terms.
• Upcoming: Sublime Store and S/O merchandise.
• Site history.

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Sublime Oblivion (S/O) started out in January 2008 as Da Russophile, dedicated to correcting Western misconceptions about Russia and its politics, economy, and demography. I made the world’s only translation of the “Stalinist” chapter of Filippov’s (in)famous history textbook – and exposed the bias of media coverageof the subject. I was also one of the very few Russia-watchers who, on the basis of applying reasonable assumptions to a demographic model, went against the grain and successfully predicted Russia’s recent demographic rebound. I have also written a lot about Russia’s history, “national idea”, and Russophobia.

Over time I refocused the blog towards my interlinked interests in geopolitics, energy, and the (non)sustainability of industrial civilization. My basic thesis is that resource depletion (e.g. peak oil, declining EROEI) and pollution overload(e.g. climate change) are already beginning to constrain industrial growth. Left unchecked, or further accelerated by short-termist politics and resource wars, these limits to growth will usher in a global collapse within a generation. Our only hopes of averting the worst outcomes are either through some kind of “magic bullet” technological solution, or an “ecotechnic dictatorship” that will force a “sustainable retreat” back below the limits. I am currently writing a book on this topic – a “future history” of the 21st century.

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