Category Archives: Sustainability

Posts related to sustainability and the environment and human attitudes towards such.

Why you need to sell US dollars now

The US dollar is moving downward again, it’s been on a steady course the last month, this recent drop however shall continue this time as there are no other options remaining for the US government to continue spending at the rates it is spending without it needing to buy it’s own debt. Further, there is …

2010, Sep, 30 – 12:33 PM | By Philosopher Rex | Posted in Commentary, Monetary Studies, Research, General, Sustainability | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

$ave me

Energy is what rules Humanity. We have, in the developed world and ever more in the developing world become addicted. Yet the free black stuff in the ground is getting harder and harder to find. Let’s play a game. I’m going to pretend I’m a top oilman, say the chairman of Shell, or BP. . …

2010, Jun, 13 – 11:32 PM | By Philosopher Rex | Posted in Anthropogenic Global Warming, Commentary, Energy, Peak Oil, Political Philosophy, Sustainability | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The impossibility of sustainability in a fascist/socialist paradigm

How could billions of impoverished humans not be radically altering the environment and biosphere? Are we too myopic in our life time-frame? Study of the geologic time-frame shows that we are making the largest impact on the Earth that has ever been made by an organism.

2010, Apr, 15 – 8:20 AM | By Philosopher Rex | Posted in Commentary, Sustainability | Comments (2)

Is Fusion a sustainable process?

EMC2 Corp. (the polywell fusion guys) are working to discover if boron can be used as a fuel for nuclear fusion. As the boron cycle is aneutronic (no neutrons), electricity can be extracted directly and very efficiently (as opposed to generating steam and using steam turbines to generate power), hence I’m not going to consider …

2010, Jun, 27 – 6:40 PM | By Philosopher Rex | Posted in Polywell Fusion, Sustainability | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

How Will You Ride the Slide?

The next couple of years my friends and we shall all be going over this cliff, how will you prepare for this most dramatic of changes? I strongly suggest that you locate or form trading groups now and learn how to produce something worth trading – food is an excellent trade-able commodity however don’t make …

2010, May, 02 – 12:35 AM | By Philosopher Rex | Posted in Peak Oil | Tagged , | Comments (0)

A scientists view on ‘climate gate’ and the copenhagen treaty

I am a scientist (B.S in micro & molecular biology with many years working as a researcher). I once was solely in the Global warming camp, but this climate-gate stuff (the leaked email affair) is really making me most unhappy. Clearly: – there are some bad apples – there needs to be a thorough investigation. …

2009, Dec, 11 – 12:37 AM | By Philosopher Rex | Posted in Peak Oil | Tagged , , | Comments (0)