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Complexity’s Revenge: Electric Power and AI
We need gas. We need nuclear. We need it all. We need it now. That was Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s message on surging U.S. power demand. It sounds decisive. It’s…
The Race to the Bottom
Welcome to the twilight of the Industrial Age. Growth is ending. That was the blunt thesis of a recent essay, and the signals are already here—deindustrialization, grid stress, financial instability,…
Ecomodernism: Modernity Without Ecology
If the chaos of modern life makes you long for a simpler story, there’s a place where abundance is assured and nature is promised a full recovery: the magic kingdom…
The Metacrisis Is Metaphysical: The Fallacies That Doom Our Solutions
I saw an article last week about Japan beaming solar power from space to Earth—a science-fiction fantasy treated as a practical near-term plan. Around the same time, I read a…
Decoupling, Dumb and Dumber
Climate change isn’t solved, but we’re told there’s been a breakthrough: a growing share of the global economy is supposedly expanding while carbon emissions are falling. Decoupling, we’re assured, is…
Memes Are The Masks of Fear
Over the past year, two narratives have emerged into the mainstream: the idea of an “oil glut” and “climate realism.” Both mark a sharp departure from the dominant stories of…
The Sunset of the Renewable Dream
The energy transition is collapsing—not in headlines, but in economics. What began as a hopeful vision for a cleaner future has become an economic bust. While markets and workers sense…
The False Promise of Enhanced Geothermal
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are advertised as a breakthrough: clean, firm power anywhere, unlocked by drilling and fracking technologies borrowed from shale. The story sounds great. The economics are disastrous.…
The Nuclear Golden Calf
As our economic, social and environmental problems worsen, nuclear energy has resurfaced as the way out of our planetary crisis. Its appeal is strong — high energy density and zero-carbon…
The Long Twilight of Growth
The International Energy Agency made headlines last week by admitting that oil demand isn’t peaking. That got everyone’s attention but the agency’s outlook was nearly identical to last year’s version:…
A Hundred Forms of Fear
Every civilization follows a life cycle—birth, growth, maturity, decline. It’s a pattern recognized for thousands of years, at least since the dawn of writing, and probably much earlier, when the…
Only Our Children Will Cross the River
Climate activists and climate‑change deniers are unhappy in the same way. Both see the world as a machine that just needs a tune‑up or a few replacement parts to work…
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