February 5, 2023

Review: Jeff Rubin on The End of Growth

Jeff Rubin is currently touring his new book, The End Of Growth. As the former Chief Economist for CIBC World Markets he brings an intimate knowledge of financial markets and how they work to the peak oil/end of growth community populated by other venerable thinkers such as Richard Heinberg, Chris Martenson and John Michael Greer.

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Review: Jeff Rubin on The End of Growth

Jeff Rubin is currently touring his new book, The End Of Growth. As the former Chief Economist for CIBC World Markets he brings an intimate knowledge of financial markets and how they work to the peak oil/end of growth community populated by other venerable thinkers such as Richard Heinberg, Chris Martenson and John Michael Greer.

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Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others

The world is clearly reaching many limits. What limits are the human and natural systems reaching now?

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Oil addiction generates denial

Whenever the U.S. supply of imported oil is threatened with interruption (or if the U.S. economy should recover much), the global marketplace bids up the oil price, and the politically sensitive price of gasoline will rise in step and depress consumer spending. Whenever the world oil price is high enough, it can cause an economic crisis. In this case global demand may contract sharply, as it did in 2009. The price can never rise for long above what the global oil market can bear.

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Oil addiction generates denial

Whenever the U.S. supply of imported oil is threatened with interruption (or if the U.S. economy should recover much), the global marketplace bids up the oil price, and the politically sensitive price of gasoline will rise in step and depress consumer spending. Whenever the world oil price is high enough, it can cause an economic crisis. In this case global demand may contract sharply, as it did in 2009. The price can never rise for long above what the global oil market can bear.

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ODAC Newsletter - May 25

G8 leaders meeting last weekend in Camp David will have been cheered by the recent slide in oil prices – albeit that the weakening in price is largely a consequence of the increasingly dire economic news. Nevertheless the group issued a statement to the effect that should the price start heading back in the other direction they will be calling on the IEA to take action…

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Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others

The world is clearly reaching many limits. What limits are the human and natural systems reaching now?

read more

Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others

The world is clearly reaching many limits. What limits are the human and natural systems reaching now?

read more

Post-Carbon Postcard#1: California, USA and British Columbia, Canada

Contrary to the views of some ill-informed journalists and politicians, there are many places where the international momentum is swinging rapidly towards — not away from — a swift transition to a post-carbon economy.

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ODAC Newsletter - May 25

G8 leaders meeting last weekend in Camp David will have been cheered by the recent slide in oil prices – albeit that the weakening in price is largely a consequence of the increasingly dire economic news. Nevertheless the group issued a statement to the effect that should the price start heading back in the other direction they will be calling on the IEA to take action…

read more