Category Archives: Natural Resources

The Bottleneck: Why Lithium Mines Cannot Keep Up

Posted on 27 January, 2023 by alfin2101

Every optimistic prediction about the growth of the EV market is a lie. It takes almost 10 years for a lithium mining project to be fully developed, and even if all current projects are completed on time there will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Natural Resources, Peak Oil | 2 Comments

Peter Zeihan: Global Famine, Depression, War Coming

Posted on 5 March, 2022 by alfin2101

Peter Zeihan predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when most analysts thought the little dictator was bluffing. Now he is predicting the aftermath. Read his books, and you can see why Zeihan and his readers may be the only ones who … Continue reading →

Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Energy, food, geopolitics, Natural Resources, Oil Prices, Peter Zeihan, Russian Collapse, Ukraine | 4 Comments

Malthusian Monkeys Screech of Doom

Posted on 3 October, 2015 by alfin2101

Update: New steel alloy has strength to weight ratio of titanium at one tenth the cost (Nature Abstract) When Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte wagered Julian Simon $10,000 that the cost of commodities and natural resources would always … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Creativity, Doom, Fertility, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Materials, Natural Resources, Ocean, Optimism, Peak Oil, Science, Technology | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Siberia Looks Away

Posted on 17 July, 2015 by alfin2101

Russia is divided in two: On one side is Moscow and its surrounds, home of the globalized elite who feed like parasites on the nation’s riches. And on the other side is the rest of the country. __ Meanwhile in … Continue reading →

Posted in China, Natural Resources, Russia, Siberia | Tagged | 2 Comments

Can Earth Support 100 Billion Humans Comfortably?

Posted on 12 July, 2015 by alfin2101

Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, wrote his book The Population Bomb in 1968. In it he warned of doom and gloom – resource depletion, species extinction and a human population so large that as a species we would face … Continue reading →

Posted in Doom, Economics, Environment, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Natural Resources, Optimism, Skyscrapers, Technology | Tagged | 4 Comments

The Future: Problems are Guaranteed; Doom Isn’t

Posted on 31 May, 2014 by alfin2101

We are living in an apocalyptic age. We have been living in the apocalyptic age for many decades — even centuries and more. Humans are strangely attracted to the apocalyptic mindset. Perhaps the doomer mentality is an intentional but subconscious … Continue reading →

Posted in Doom, Environment, Natural Resources, Optimism | 6 Comments