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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Russia’s Demographic Resilience III
It’s official. Russia’s population grew by 23,300 souls in 2009, for the first time since 1995. The rate of natural increase remained slightly negative for Russia as a whole, though the Siberian and Urals Federal Regions actually saw positive natural population growth for the first time in 19 years. However, this was more than compensated for by [...]
Sublime News #1
I am beginning a new post category, Sublime News, in which I collate and comment on news bits and pieces that I find interesting over the past week. Whatever I write over the week will be automatically published every Saturday, 12pm (California time). This first post will be exceptional in that it will cover a [...]
Posted in Sublime News Tagged britain, china, climate change, corruption, demography, geopolitics, hi-tech, Humor, latin america, liberasm, military, morale, news 2010, peak oil, politics, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russophobes, turkey, ukraine, usa, war 11 Comments
SSR #8: On Future War
This is the fourth post in my series of Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. In this issue I am going to look at the future of military technology and war strategy in a world of informatization, resource scarcity, and renewed ideological turbulence. Be forewarned: while some of what I write here [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Tagged chaos, china, collapse, energy, geoengineering, hi-tech, history, imperialism, military, Russia Resources, technology, usa, war 13 Comments
Review of “Limits to Growth” (Meadows et al.)
If I could recommend just one book to someone with a business-as-usual outlook, someone who believes human ingenuity and free markets will always bail us out of any resource scarcity or environmental problem, it would be Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (henceforth LTG). After reading it, you may never look at the world in quite [...]
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, economy, energy, pollution, resource depletion, review, Reviews, vision 4 Comments
The Endgame Begins
A year ago I predicted that there will be a “decoupling from the unwinding“, as “emerging markets” by and large ride out the temporary shocks of declining Western demand for their exports (China) and the interruption of Western credit intermediation (Russia) before resuming growth. This is one aspect of the trends leading to the imminent demise [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Tagged authoritarianism, corruption, economy, energy, finance, geopolitics, germany, iran, japan, peak oil, politics, rant, usa, vision 22 Comments
SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower
This is the third of my Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy of today’s “neoliberal internationalist” order promoted by the West is being questioned by the more [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, china, climate change, coal, culture, energy, environment, finance, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, japan, military, morale, politics, resource depletion, ssr, usa, vision, water 10 Comments
Collapse Ethics: Anarchy or Coercion?
The reaction to my article on the “ecotechnic dictatorship” garnered a vigorous response on this blog, and more of a vitriolic one elsewhere (see below for a summary). So let’s ask the question outright. Suppose that all your observations and models indicated that business-as-usual would doom the global industrial system to collapse, causing the premature [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, collapse, communism, energy, environment, ethics, human rights, politics, vision 16 Comments
Sublime News #2