"What a Year 2024 Was" - The Honest Sorcerer

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/what-a-year-2024-was

> "How energy and resource depletion undermined the post WWII world order and democracy"

> «Simply put: there is no such thing as an “energy transition”. It’s a myth. All proposals, from wind and solar to hydrogen, depend on minerals mined, delivered and refined by using these polluting fuels in copious amounts. As soon as the extraction of fossil fuels begin to decline, you can bet that the production of solar panels and wind turbines will eventually follow suit. And since diesel fuel is also used to grow and deliver crops, the question whether to burn it to mine minerals for EV batteries, or use it to grow food to prevent hunger will resolve itself rather quickly. And only when you add our propensity for war whenever resources grow thin, you start to really appreciate the relative peace and calm we have today.»

#TheHonestSorcerer #Collapse #2024 #SenecaCliff

"Nuclear Is Not The Answer" by #ArtBerman

https://www.artberman.com/blog/nuclear-is-not-the-answer/

"Among the most frustrating parts of discussions about the human predicament is the widespread belief that nuclear energy is the answer. It’s not. If money were not a consideration—but it is—nuclear plants just can’t be built fast enough to make much of a difference."

Art includes a wider view than just greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide emissions. Examples:

"Carbon emissions and the overshooting of planetary boundaries are unlikely to decrease as long as energy consumption, world GDP and population continue to increase (Figure 7). The interrelationship of these factors with the degradation of Earth’s ecosystem means that there are no solutions without a structural change in all of these factors as a starting point. This implies that a civilizational paradigm shift is required."

"When I talk to people about energy, the environment and the human predicament, they want me to help them understand what society can do to solve the problems that I describe. They are often frustrated when I tell them that it’s not that simple. Focusing on one part of the predicament like emissions or nuclear power may feel satisfying but simply shifts most of the problem somewhere else."

This is a very important statement. I think our world is full of people trying to optimize a narrow problem, thus externalizing impacts elsewhere. This does not produce any global optimization, and instead avoids or prevents the necessary global changes, since everyone (or most people) deceive themselves thinking that they are actually contributing to such optimization. This idea is not mine, actually, it comes from Daniel Schmachtenberger, also taken by Nate Hagens. We need systems-wide ways to approach the solutions. Our problemes go way beyond just substituting an energy source for another (although this problem itself is already a massive one).

#PeakEnergy #Collapse #GreatSimplification #LongDescent #SenecaCliff #CarbonEmissions #NateHagens #DanielSchmachtenberger