Malthusian Ideology, Phony Scarcity

Climate alarmism has become a growth industry and the pandemic is making things worse

By Frank Furedi | RT | January 13, 2021 Covid-19 has provided a window of opportunity for professional doom-mongers to spread fear by linking the virus to climate change and overpopulation. But we shouldn’t pay attention to their alarmist predictions for the planet. Another day and another climate alarmist report that warns that human extinction […]

One Little Problem with the “All-Electric” Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the “Waste” Gasoline?

By Charles Hugh Smith | Of Two Minds | December 14, 2020 Regardless of what happens with vaccines and Covid-19, debt and energy–inextricably bound as debt funds consumption– will destabilize the global economy in a self-reinforcing feedback. Back in the early days of the oil industry (1880s and 1890s), the product that the industry could […]

48% Of U.S. Small Businesses Fear They May Be Forced To “Shut Down Permanently” Soon

By Michael Snyder | The Economic Collapse | December 10, 2020 What would the United States look like if we lost half of our small businesses? The reason I ask that question is because approximately half of all small business owners in the entire country believe that they may soon be forced to close down […]