Category Peak Oil
EASYJET – I’M WITH SIR STELIOS
Sir Stelios threatens to sell family stake in fresh easyJet row (Daily Telegraph Article: link below) Just a quickie, as they say. So, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou says he has become “increasingly concerned” at easyJet’s growth plans which he claims are centred on an “expansion at any cost policy” with directors “squandering” cash on new aircraft. Spot on […]
TO COLLAPSE, OR NOT TO COLLAPSE
In 2005 I read James Kunstler’s ‘The Long Emergency’. Since then I have studied in some detail (dare I say enormous detail) the likely trajectory of our society in the coming decade or two. I’ve tended to follow Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’ framework of viewing the world thro’ the tri-focal lens of energy, the economy […]
INFINITE GROWTH ON A FINITE PLANET? EASY-PEASY!
Now I got a bit of a telling-off the other day (see link below) from Tim Worstall (Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute) for challenging his view that “Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet … [is] Easy-Peasy”. I got the impression that any notion that we might be in for a period (let’s say […]