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Beyond The Mordor Economy

In a Mordor Economy, where we spend more and more energy just to keep the economy going, we are forced to sacrifice everything we hold dear. What's the…

9 hrs ago • The Honest Sorcerer

2026: The Year Of The Coyote

Should you find yourself running off that cliff, don't ever look down

Jan 11 • The Honest Sorcerer

Wetiko: The Psychosis Eating The World Alive

The predicaments we face today have much deeper roots than what could be explained away with ‘capitalism bad’ or ‘fossil fuels bad’.

Jan 4 • The Honest Sorcerer

December 2025

2025: The Year Of Peak Everything

From mineral resources to oil and nuclear: welcome to the twilight of the Industrial Age

Dec 28, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

The End of Reason

Light a torch, dark times ahead

Dec 21, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

A Frantic Search for the Pause Button

When the reality of resource limits meets elite overproduction

Dec 14, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

Running on Empty: Copper

How peak copper arrived and went completely unnoticed

Dec 7, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

November 2025

Are We Sleepwalking Into a Diesel Shortage?

The gasoil crisis, after simmering on the back burner for a while, seems to be ready to boil over again.

Nov 30, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

The Zero State And What Comes After

It’s fashionable to call what we live through in the West “late stage capitalism”, but there is much more to the subject than the decline of an economic…

Nov 23, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

The Oil Import Curse

Why oil imports might fall far faster, far sooner than supply

Nov 16, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

Life On The Slippery Slope

Two scenarios for what a world with a declining resource and energy availability could look like

Nov 9, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

The Emirates Shows Us How Not To Build Solar

Implications of the U.A.E.'s solar megaproject, and how solar could still help

Nov 2, 2025 • The Honest Sorcerer

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