About
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: climate change
New Year Special: 2012 Predictions
It’s been a great year! To recap, in rough chronological order, 2011 saw: The most popular post (with 562 comments and counting; granted, most of them consisting of Indians and Pakistanis flaming each other); Visualizing the Kremlin Clans (joint project … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, futurism, geopolitics, germany, global warming, greece, hungary, iran, israel, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, putin, russia, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
215 Comments
Future Superpowers – The World To 2100
Most current projections of future trends in national power fail to appreciate the importance of three crucial factors: (1) the declining EROEI of energy resources (including, but not limited to, “peak oil”); (2) the importance of human capital to economic … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, brazil, china, climate change, collapse, demography, economy, education, futurism, geopolitics, india, iq, resource depletion, russia, usa, vision
121 Comments
The Radical Ideologies Of The 21st Century
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Радикальные идеологии 21-го века). Though I’ve written a lot on technological, energy, and geopolitical futures, this has largely been to the neglect of ideology. Part of the reason is that … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, china, climate change, france, futurism, germany, global warming, imperialism, politics, russia, usa, vision
14 Comments
New Year Special, Part 2: 2011 Predictions
Carrying on from yesterday’s 2010 in Review, I’ll now lay out my predictions for this year and see how well last year’s stacked up to reality. (1) Last year, I wrote: “World economy continues an anemic recovery, though there are … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, coal, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, israel, italy, luzhkov, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, russia, spain, uk, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
10 Comments
New Year Special, Part 1: 2010 in Review
Happy new year to all Sublime Oblivion readers! This blog wouldn’t be what it is without you. In fact, I’d have probably abandoned it after a month or two after a couple of posts as I did with my first … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, authoritarianism, china, climate change, economy, france, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, israel, middle east, military, politics, rise of the rest, russia, uk, usa, vision, wikileaks
27 Comments
I’d Sooner See The World Burn Than Compromise With Rogue Scientists
Or at least that’s what seems to be going around in the mind of Condoleezza Rice, if this cable (Cable 1) from September 2008 is anything to go by. After successfully persuading countries like Brazil to let the American scientist Christopher … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, The Sublime Cables
Tagged anti-science, china, climate change, copenhagen accords, ethiopia, global warming, imperialism, iran, usa, western hypocrisy
3 Comments
The Collapse Party Fulfills Its Own Name
I founded the Collapse Party one year ago after coming to the hard realization that industrial civilization is unsustainable and that – barring revolutionary socio-political (e.g. “ecotechnic dictatorship“) or technological (e.g. geoengineering) transformation – it’s catastrophic unraveling by the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Life in General, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, climate change, collapse, ethics, futurism, global warming, life, me, oligarchs, politics, pollution, resource depletion, sustainability, vision
8 Comments
New Project: Arctic Progress
The Arctic is one of the most ignored regions in commentary about global trends. This is unsurprising. The vastnesses of Hyperborea, a semi-mythical world of curdled seas, boreal lights and eternal sunshine, have always been “outside” history. But the fast pace of … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, blogging, climate change, economy, energy, geopolitics, global warming, me, russia, security
8 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