19 February 2012

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

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11 January 2012

New Scientist: Limits to Growth and Revisiting Prophecies of Collapse

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Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam recently warned of "Sub-par global growth for at least 2 years" (Referen...
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06 November 2011

Hubbert's Third Prophecy

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ClubOrlov: Hubbert's Third Prophecy 1st Prophecy: US oil peak would be sometime between 1969 and 1971. It peaked in 1970. 2nd Proph...
17 October 2011

Singapore GIC's Long Term Investments to Become Worthless? The Peak Oil Argument

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The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) invested 11 billion Swiss Francs in UBS in Dec 2007 ( LINK ) and USD$6.88 billion i...
11 October 2011

Lee Kuan Yew and the Price of Food

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With the recent flooding situation in Thailand ( Link ), the price of rice is going to increase. This is only the beginning of a multi-decad...
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23 April 2011

PM Lee Hsien Loong on Peak Oil

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But on the supply side, it is not all pessimistic news. There is hope for new sources of supply. Time and again experts have warned that oi...
22 April 2010

S.Iswaran Does A 180 Degree Turn on Peak Oil

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In a 2006 speech, Senior Minister of State for Trade & Industry, S.Iswaran, readily accepted the EIA's projections that oil will not...
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21 April 2010

Beyond Green Growth: Why We Need a World Without Economic Growth

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A great read from Guardian.co.uk : Last March, Tim Jackson put forward the idea of prosperity without growth in a report published by the U...

Recent Peak Oil Headlines Ignored by Singapore Media

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I notice that the Singapore media has been awfully silent on these important reports. The silence is deafening. Why? It makes me wonder if t...
19 January 2010

Golden Age for Asia? Dream On...

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MM Lee Kuan Yew first mentioned the phrase "Golden Period"of economic growth in 2007, but he qualified that with this sentence: If...
04 November 2009

Interview with Joseph Tainter on Collapse

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Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and author of the seminal book, The Collapse of Complex Societies. ( BitTorrent ) http://varnelis.net/b...
25 October 2009

Wanted: Biophysical Economists in the Singapore Government

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Government leaders and economists don't like to question our economic growth paradigm. It upsets the status quo and nobody likes that. C...
23 September 2009

Economists Today Are Pernicious

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"Pernicious" - a very appropriate description of present-day economists. “Economists live completely within a false world,” he say...
02 September 2009

Peak Sand = Peak Construction = Peak HDB Housing?

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PM Lee Hsien Loong said: Our basic attitude has been that environmental sustainability is not incompatible with economic development. We hav...
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01 September 2009

Revisiting the Limits to Growth After Peak Oil

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Revisiting the Limits to Growth After Peak Oil ...
10 August 2009

Singapore Grow. Singapore Spend. Singapore Consume.

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Economic growth is all about production and consumption. Economists and politicians love a growing population of consumers because it adds t...
08 August 2009

Singapore's National Energy Policy Report Needs To Be Updated

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The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) published in Nov 2007 (p.13) : For oil and gas, proven reserves are estimated to be sufficient for...
07 June 2009

Relocalization, not Globalization, for Singapore

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Relocalization , not globalization, is the way forward for Singapore and the rest of the world. However, I doubt that relocalization efforts...
03 June 2009

PM Lee Hsien Loong vs Dr. Ow Chin Hock on Population Growth

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To sustain growth and vitality in our economy, we need a growing population in Singapore with talents in every field. -- PM Lee Hsien Loong ...