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Posts Tagged ‘coal’

Gregor Macdonald on the future of energy, economics, and society

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 12:46 Written by Eric Garland 1 Comment

For those of you who know Gregor MacDonald, you know you’re in for a treat with this podcast- a full hour of some of Gregor’s latest forecasts on energy, economics and society, insights you simply won’t get anywhere else.

For those of you who haven’t discovered Gregor yet, he is one of the top energy analysts in the world, and in our minds, one of the top analysts of anything, period.

This podcast covers sweeping ground:

  • Why we’re at peak automobiles
  • The end of cheap oil
  • Coal’s role in the development of the world economy
  • The return to human capital and small towns
  • Why waterways are the future
  • Our current period of “late phase economic decadence
  • Why PAKISTAN holds the key to the Copenhagen Protocol

Crazier still, we could have spend ANOTHER hour talking to him and still not exhausted him of insight.

Enjoy.

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The future of natural resources: aluminum prices plummet

Tuesday, 09 December 2008 12:36 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

At this moment , you can really see the effect of speculative markets on our economy the past few years . Gasoline in Washington is now cheaper than my morning coffee – around $1.70 at the time of this post. This shows how incredibly powerful speculation has been. The world economy has not been cut in half, but many resources are falling dramatically in price.

Today, the global cash price for aluminum also fell to around half of what it was earlier this year. It may seem crazy, but then again, there are THOUSANDS OF YEARS left of aluminum in the Earth’s crust.

The future of scarcity is not what many have been led to believe! More below:

STEEP Report Future of Natural Resource Scarcity

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