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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: environment
National Comparisons: Politics & Media
In the fourth part of my series comparing Russia, Britain, and the US, I turn my attention to aspects of their politics, including: markets and freedom; media independence; the role of “dissident” voices, billionaires, and corruption; and Internet culture. Some … Continue reading
Posted in National Comparisons
Tagged authoritarianism, corruption, crime, environment, internet, marxism, military, nationalism, oligarchs, politics, putin, russia, russia today, russian media, uk, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
4 Comments
The End of Western Freedom (and why Russians should ignore their hypocritical lectures)
In a recent post at Streetwise Professor, in reply to a Russophobe commentator, democracy activist* and net-buddy Mark Sleboda compiled a damning indictment of the real state of Western freedom. Newsflash: for the world’s (self-appointed) moral arbitrators, it’s nothing to … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, capitalism, collapse, environment, globalization, guest, human rights, politics, protest, rise of the rest, russia, russophobia, western hypocrisy, western media
28 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
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
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, collapse, communism, energy, environment, ethics, human rights, politics, vision
19 Comments
Human Sustainable Development Index
How should the ecotechnic dictatorship measure its progress and define its legitimacy to the people, since continued physical output growth is anathema? How can one reconcile a post-scarcity environment with the sustainably low level of physical throughput that we need … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged communism, economy, education, environment, ethics, politics, publ
1 Comment
Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, ethics, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, history, human rights, imperialism, matrix, peak oil, politics, singularity, technology, usa, vision, war
38 Comments