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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
The basic reasons why Europeans became dominant were summed up in Jared Diamond’s book Guns Germs and Steel . With these, they were able to implement colonial imperialism and thus gain advantage over other cultures. It is not due to superior culture, religion or genes. (He also wrote a book called ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
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Re: Defining Terms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFrxgMFbN8c The transcript of the first 15 minutes of this video is copied below. Some long term themes: Giant sucking sound of the US dollar system US economy is too inefficient The cost structure of the US is too high Utilities such as education, health care and fi...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
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Re: Defining Terms
World per capita energy use has been stagnant for several years. If the developed economies were getting huge gains in efficiency to offset the decline in their per capita energy use, that would be one thing but they aren't. Instead, the FIRE economy is filling in the gaps to keep GDP floating high...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
- Views: 2641708
Re: Defining Terms
The narrative is that we are leading the charge to a better tomorrow at net zero without fossil fuels. The reality is that the US and other developed economies are no longer competitive enough to take the lion's share of the world's fossil fuels. The narrative helps to keep perceptions from catchin...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
- Views: 2641708
Re: Defining Terms
If you want to continue the discussion at length, we should probably reopen the abortion thread. Doesn't particularly belong in the Hovel. Some aspects of the discussion belong here. One would be a discussion of the narratives that are created around various topics as the new dark age tightens its ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
- Views: 2641708
Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
The Industrial and Information Ages don't leave a lot of room for such collapses. They leave a lot more room. In the Industrial Age, the excess extraction rate over the steady state sustainable extraction rate is at least 10 fold what it was in the Agricultural Age. See the below link for a recent ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
'BB will ride the atom bomb all the way to the ground.' That's still my favorite line of the past year. It's the superiority complex of that group, their tightly closed bubble and strictly regulated information sources together with unrelenting bigotry... It's just FUBAR as many people wake up to i...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
- Views: 2641708
Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Tom Murphy is a professor emeritus of the departments of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego. An amateur astronomer in high school, physics major at Georgia Tech, and PhD student in physics at Caltech, Murphy spent decades reveling in the study of astroph...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
They leave a lot more room. In the Industrial Age, the excess extraction rate over the steady state sustainable extraction rate is at least 10 fold what it was in the Agricultural Age.Bob Butler wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:58 amThe Industrial and Information Ages don't leave a lot of room for such collapses.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 1960
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Besides, if there is no nuclear exchange I expect a new birth of freedom. The US and its government will thrive. I anticipate the familiar predictions of violence and collapse won't manifest. Instead, the high will be a high, the conservative values collapse, and infrastructure will be built. Stars...