Category Archives: Planning for the Future

Reaching financial limits–What kinds of solutions are available?

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

We live in a finite world. At this point, we seem to be reaching limits in several different areas: Cheap oil. Our economy runs on cheap oil, but there is a limit to the amount of cheap oil that can … Continue reading →

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Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

The world is clearly reaching many limits. This graphic below shows how I see man interacting with natural systems, back before man discovered fire and back before man became intelligent enough to kill off whole species. In these earliest days, … Continue reading →

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Age of Limits Conference

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

Over Memorial Day weekend (May 25-28), I will be speaking at the Age of Limits Conference in southern Pennsylvania, not too far from Baltimore. The other speakers will be John Michael Greer, Carolyn Baker, Dmitry Orlov, and Tom Whipple. The … Continue reading →

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True sustainability solutions

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

We live in a world with very limited solutions to our sustainability problems. I often hear the view, “If we would just get off fossil fuels, then our society would be sustainable.” Or, “If the price of oil would just … Continue reading →

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Human population overshoot–what went wrong?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

There are seven billion people on earth now. I originally thought that the primary reason for the recent human population explosion was that fossil fuels enabled a larger food supply and better medicine, and thus a higher population. While the … Continue reading →

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