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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: agriculture
In Which I Opine On Various Matters Of Great Importance
A collection of news stories and my take on them from the past month or so. 1. Bribes are growing quickly in Russia. Their average sizes, that is. It was reported by the MVD that they increased by 5x from … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, chinese language, corruption, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, life, politics, russia, venezuela
33 Comments
Russia Burning: not Apocalypse, but its Prelude
This post is a meta-commentary on media coverage of Russia’s drought and wildfires. Now make no mistake, I admire the yeoman work of some journalists in covering Russia burning: no doubt a few will even make their way into the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, corruption, demography, drought, futurism, global warming, pollution, russia, russians, vision, western media
59 Comments
The Century without an Indian Summer
How will the global South fare in our likely future of energy shortages, climate change and resource nationalism (and wars)? India has China’s population mass, but lacks its industrial dynamism and human capital. Africa has Russia’s energy and mineral wealth, but … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, bangladesh, china, climate change, collapse, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, futurism, geopolitics, global warming, imperialism, india, internat, military, pakistan, peak water, resource depletion, ssr, vision, water
36 Comments
Climate Change and Pollution Overload
This is yet another reference post like Resource Depletion and Peak Oil and Emerging Technologies on futurism, this time dealing with the consequences of climate change. Thoughts its impacts are not be as noticeable as technological change (which is now … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, environment, futurism, global warming, pollution, vision
6 Comments
Simmered to the Edge of the World
When denier ideologues make the transition to accepting the reality of anthropogenic global warming, one of the arguments they start to use tends to go something along the following lines: “Sure, the polar bears might get screwed over, but otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, environment, futurism, global warming, vision
14 Comments
Emerging Technologies: Limits to Growth vs. Moore’s Law
Like my post on Resource Depletion and Peak Oil, this is intended as a reference article for another key future trend. One important observation I will make at the beginning is that the approach of Limits To Growth (already imminent … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, biotech, energy, environment, futurism, hi-tech, military, nanotech, public health, robotics, technology, vision
4 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, economy, energy, pollution, resource depletion, review, Reviews, vision
8 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 … Continue reading
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
13 Comments
Surviving Collapse Part 2
Having looked at Argentina’s mini-collapse in the early 2000′s, we will now turn to the classic modern case study of post-Soviet Russia, as recounted by Dmitry Orlov with my own commentary. Needless to say, as an emigrant from 1994 onwards, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, chaos, collapse, culture, economy, life, morale, russians, soviet union, usa, vision
10 Comments
Review of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” (J. Diamond)
While trawling through my computer archives, I stumbled across this book review of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel” from five years ago. Overall, it’s a great book, better than his follow-up “Collapse”, which is also interesting – especially in … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Reviews
Tagged agriculture, culture, demography, environment, pandemic, public health, review, science, technology
2 Comments