Robert Hirsch

Dr. Hirsch, "The Nexus of Energy and Risk in the 21st Century"

Misc.
MGTOW - Dalrock: Why aren’t men responding to economic signals?

The world you have made:

Of the people I know who have graduated college, less than half are gainfully employed. Worse, most of the ones who are employed are women. In my major, women made up the majority. 2/3 of them have jobs in the field. I’m unaware of another male I graduated with who has a job in it. Worse yet, a lot of the men like me doubled down and took extra concentrations and minors in with our degrees. Along with writing, I studied media/critical analysis and Public Relations. Essentially, I crammed an extra year into college into my four years to stay competitive in a competitive field.

As to whether the girls could write better, I must answer with a resounding “NO.” Their research papers, which I often proofread, took naive positions and failed to argue articulately whereas I typically chose an uphill position and argued it with robust reasoning and heavy sourcing. More than a few profs privately admitted my papers constructively challenged their world-views. So why, then, did the girls get the jobs? Surely companies want to hire better writers, particularly ones with GPAs above 3.5 and other honors associations, additional education and accreditation in the field, and a robust sense of communication and argumentation. (White women college grads are second only to Asian men in post-baccalaureate employment levels

It all comes down to the shifting corporate environment. A half century of government puppeteering, law suits, and sensitivity trainings have rendered companies deaf to reality. The corporate attitude takes no risks. The productivity of one man cannot compare to the financial risk that he might make an off-color remark that somehow triggers a woman to sue him and the company for supposedly subjecting her to his comment. The supreme irony is that, despite the playful joking attitudes of men in the workplace, women accomplish much less. Companies either willfully ignore this or are too scared to act on this fact.

And now, let’s return to what men have been doing. I call this the Scott Pilgrim phenomenon. Where men have encountered resistance to even their most sincere and dedicated efforts, they have assumed a fatalistic attitude towards achievement, especially since they have no family. With very few reasons to give more than a minimum hoot that they have accomplished nothing, they settle into the solipsistic world of drinking, video games, bad TV and other nonconstructive pursuits. (I grew up with video games and still enjoy them, however I treat it as I do TV and limit my use)

The truth is that when faced with difficulty and no rational cause to weather it, men retreat to the hibernation state and care only about basic comfort and enjoyment. Men, by nature, are not lazy. However, a combination of the “everybody’s special” culture, institutional resistance to their presence in the labor force, and the lack of real liabilities like a family hardly persuades men to better themselves and become more productive. The reason men marched into coal mines to do back-breaking labor had little to do with personal motivation and everything to do with familial provision.

Slow Food Quickens the Pace

The Trader Joe's Lesson: How to Pay a Living Wage and Still Make Money in Retail

A Prepper Series: The Lights Out Saga

We Are Made for Cooperation

ASPO 2012

YT channel

Jeremy Wakeford - Peak Oil Mitigation of the Transport Sector


Robert Hirsch - The Impending World Oil Shortage: Learning from the Past

Items of interest, 28 March 2011

A successful defense of the Puritans?  A City upon a Hill, by Mark A. Signorelli


More on Fukushima:
Chris Busby, Deconstructing Nuclear Experts

Mike Whitney, Is Fukushima About to Blow?

Dr. Helen Caldicott on the nuclear disaster in Japan (EB)
Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock (mp3)

Libya:
Curtis Doebbler, Why the Attack on Libya is Illegal

PJB, How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative and Obama Goes to War

Naturally, Daniel Larison has written much on the topic.

Other:
Unpacking for a disaster: What you need to survive the unexpected by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch (EB)

Rob Hopkins, Film review: "The Economics of Happiness" (EB)

Commentary: Restrictions on world oil production by Robert L. Hirsch

Plastics now and forever! by Daniel Pargman, Life After Oil (EB)

Tom Whipple reviews The Impending World Energy Mess

ASPO-USA (Energy Bulletin)

The book.

Another Robert Hirsch interview

Exclusive interview: Robert Hirsch by Matthieu Auzanneau (original)

Steve Andrews interviews Robert Hirsch

Interview with Bob Hirsch on his team’s new book—“The Impending World Energy Mess”  (original)

Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA 

 

Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling have coauthored a new publication, this time a book called "The Impending World Energy Mess: What It Is and What It Means to You," a book to be released by publisher Apogee Prime late this month...He has spent his entire career working in the energy realm, from the oil sector to numerous forms of electric power generation. In 2005, this team published "The Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management." Steve Andrews caught up with Bob Hirsch last week for Steve's last interview and final work with the Peak Oil Review.

'Squawk Box' Guest Warns of $12-15-a-Gallon Gas
Robert Hirsch, an energy advisor, says CNBC morning show prediction was a citation of the 'Dean of Oil Analysts.'

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
5/21/2008 3:38:13 PM

Via Drudge

The Gathering Storm | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
Maxwell Bio
The Energy Blog: Oil Shortages Start in 2010; Peak Oil Hits 2012-2015
Charlie Maxwell: Oil Scarcity to Cause Political Breakdown ...
The Oil Price Rise--Timing Benchmarks Delineate Our Likely Advance to the Oil Peak Written by Charles T. Maxwell (the interview)

Podcast interview with Dr. Robert Hirsch

via EB

Peak oil means peak economy - Hirsch (podcast)
David Strahan, The Last Oil Shock
When global oil production peaks, the economy is likely to shrink in direct proportion to dwindling fuel supplies, says Dr Robert Hirsch of the thinktank SAIC.

Speaking at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil conference in Houston, he also warned that as peak approaches, producer countries including OPEC and Russia are likely to husband their reserves for future generations and limit exports, potentially sharpening the decline in oil available to importing nations.

Dr Hirsch is the author of a groundbreaking report for the US Department of Energy which highlighted the long lead-times and other limitations of purely supply-side responses to peak oil. In an interview with lastoilshock.com on the sidelines of the Houston conference, he went on to argue that fuel rationing will be an essential part of any policy response, and predicted that such measures would be introduced even in the United States.

Listen to the interview with Robert Hirsch.
(18 October 2007)

Robert L. Hirsch, Planning for the mitigation of maximum world oil production

Planning for the mitigation of maximum world oil production

by Robert L. Hirsch

A recent piece by Robert Hirsch

Via EB

Peaking of world oil production: Recent forecasts
Predicting the timing of a peak may not be possible, but inadequate investment could make geological considerations moot.

Updates by Robert Hirsch on peak oil

Over at DNI:

In-depth introduction to the issue and its complexities. Prepared for the Atlantic Council, 23 October 2006 (735 KB PDF)
Brief overview of the major issues. To be presented at "Energy Sustainability in the Global Enterprise" at the University of Wisconsin, November 30 - December 1, 2006 (189 KB PDF)