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The book Limits to Growth - a 1972 harbinger of the "death of the planet" - was largely dismissed in its time time as being improbable at best and at worst, alarmist...

Australia might be the largest coal exporter in the world, but only because all the larger producers of coal keep their own and use it themselves. China is the silent giant coal monster — in 2009 Australia exported...

Israel's defence minister has confirmed that military plans to 'uproot Hamas' are about dominating Gaza's gas reservesYesterday, Israeli defence minister and former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon...

The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer EarthRobert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence...

The self-defeating logic of militarised social science targets anti-capitalist 'extremists' in the new 'age of uncertainty'Yesterday I wrote about the Pentagon's dubious role in funding social science research that could...

Rocketing production costs, proliferating write-downs, stranded assets pave the way for renewable renaissanceThe latest data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and other sources proves that the oil and gas majors...

Global energy watchdog confirms 'the party's over' - lowers US production projections, demands urgent investmentI hate to say I told you so, but...In 2012, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast that the US would...

Soaring costs of resource extraction require transition to post-industrial 'circular economy' to avoid collapseA new landmark scientific report drawing on the work of the world's leading mineral experts forecasts that industrial...

Crippling fossil fuel dependency, climate volatility, rocketing debt levels are propelling protests, radicalising the stateMilitary coups in Thailand are nothing new...

Industry's over-inflated reserve estimates are unravelling, and with it the 'American dream' of oil independenceNext month, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) will publish a new estimate of US shale deposits set...

Islamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interestsThe kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala,...

'Capitalism is torpedoing our prosperity, killing our economies, threatening our children. It must be re-engineered, root and branch.'In The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance, Dr Jeremy Leggett...

A former oil man calls for renewable "Renaissance" to ward off shale dystopiaIn a new book, former oil geologist and government adviser on renewable energy, Dr...

A former oil man calls for renewable "Renaissance" to ward off shale dystopiaIn a new book, former oil geologist and government adviser on renewable energy, Dr...

Journalistic standards won't be upheld by attempting to discredit science we don't likeBlogger Keith Kloor, who writes for Discover magazine, claims that my article on a Nasa-funded study modelling civilisational collapse...