Friday, September 23, 2011

Items of Interest, 23 September 2011

ChrisMartenson.com: Rob Hopkins: Making The Red Pill Taste Good (mp3)

Peak Moment Conversations 202: Collapse of the Titans (EB)

Learn from the Soviets — personal relationships are the best currency, says Russian-born Dmitry Orlov, the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. The American empire is following the USSR into collapse, he asserts, with financial collapse happening first, followed by commercial and then political collapse. Dmitry, an America resident for several decades, suggests lowering our needs and expectations and replacing money transactions with barter and exchanges.



Richard Heinberg: The “Abiotic Oil” Controversy (from 2004)
Coast To Coast AM - 21.9.2011 - 1/4 - Peak Oil / Saudi Arabia & 9/11 (dl)
Part 2.

Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America by Peter Whybrow

While it probably attempts a psychological explanation that is too materialistic, the author affirms that there are natural limits to resource and resource use. This is one basis for arguing that there is a mean to consumption. (Another basis would be the limits to what we need to consume in order to satisfy our needs, not our wants.)

Is America Becoming Spiritually Poor? By Michael Meade (CB)

Raw Food SOS: “Forks Over Knives”: Is the Science Legit? (A Review and Critique)

Augsburg College: Paideia Group

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