Starting with Biomedical, but letting you know that the 4IR segment has 2 stories i consider HUGE regarding possible inside job angles involved in events over the last few days.
Biomedical. Dr Sam Bailey looks at DDT and studies which have established links to Polio.
The Ongoing DDT Cover-Up, Dr Sam Bailey, 3/25/24, 19 minutes.
[Link to show notes page. From it,….]
"Claims that insecticides protect people from disease vectors such as ticks (e.g. Lyme disease) and mosquitos (e.g. Dengue and Yellow fever) are based in germ theory dogma and the scientifically unsupported concept of "pathogens". Examination of the foundational studies has universally revealed that microbes in themselves do not make heathy people sick.
Despite these inconvenient facts, "in 1945, against the advice of investigators who had studied the pharmacology of the compound and found it dangerous for all forms of life, DDT was released in the United States and other countries for general use by the public as an insecticide." It was certainly not the last time the "safe and effective" catch-cry would be used to introduce a new product into widespread use amongst an unsuspecting public.
What unfolded subsequently was one of the biggest concealments of mass poisoning and disease "outbreaks" in known history using the imaginary poliovirus as the familiar cover story. While the use of DDT was eventually banned in most countries, the scandal continues into the present day with ongoing heavy application in India and Africa. As if this was not bad enough, why is the "Stockholm Convention" acting as an apologist agency in this ongoing deception?… "
My comments: POWERFUL stuff. Sickening to hear but i highly appreciate Dr Bailey’s thorough examination of the damning evidence.
4IR. In what’s being described as an accident, a container ship sailing out of Baltimore Harbor lost power suddenly soon after 1AM local time this morning, and within 4 minutes ran into a pier supporting the Francis Scott Key which spans the Patapsco River at the entrance to Baltimore’s large harbor. The bridge collapsed in seconds!
The current go-to story is this, disabling ad-blocker required to read. Baltimore Harbor is shut down, as is the Interstate highway which circumvents Baltimore. The other two Interstates in the area cross the harbor via tunnels which have a maximum 13 ft clearance and do not allow hazardous materials. Thus, highway traffic is also snarled at a key choke point of the Interstate system which links Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Richmond plus Virginia’s Quad City coastal metro.
The ship is owned by the Singapore-based Grace Ocean Pte Ltd but managed by Synergy Marine Group, also based in Singapore. It currently was carrying Maersk customers' cargo, according to a statement from the shipping company. [USA Today also reports a prior accident involving this ship.]
Then, this report from WBAL TV, which includes a video of the event.
"Video posted online [Link] shows the entire structure breaking apart in several locations and collapsing. The Associated Press reported the ship caught fire, and thick, black smoke billowed from it. "A ship hit it and it's gone. We thought it was an earthquake," a person in the area told 11 News. SkyTeam 11 reported the portion of the bridge that collapsed was the steel superstructure and that the concrete bridge appeared to remain intact. “
Me: The ship did NOT catch fire, it was later determined, its engines were straining to throw it into reverse, emitting lots of smoke from its stack]
The “link” goes nowhere, but there is an embedded video at the WBAL page linked above which does show the structure breaking apart. LOOKS SKETCHY!!
And this on the bridge.
Engineering experts explain why Baltimore bridge collapsed after being hit by ship
{“Experts” also “explained” 9/11]
"NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the agency will look at the construction of the bridge, which was built in 1977, and whether that contributed to its collapse. Building standards and codes for bridges did not did not include potential impact, meaning that the Key Bridge was not built with being hit by a ship at the top of mind. It was also built at a time when cargo ships were significantly smaller than they are today.
”[“Experts” initially claimed the WTC towers were not designed with plane impacts in mind. By the time this was debunked, as people uncovered statements by John Skilling, the head structural engineer on the WTC design, who had died in April 1998, the lie was established as truth in most people’s minds. And arguments were made that any planes in mind were 707s, smaller than the 747s involved, though in fact due to higher speed a 707 packs more potential energy than a slightly heavier 747]]
And this fascinating video from Twitter, have not examined it closely.
And, questions being raised about the “terrorist attack" upon Moscow’s Crocus City Hall during a music show, whose death toll is now 137.
I have a few questions about this terrorist attack. Edward Slavsquat, 3/26/24.
Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking with Steve and Chris from AM WakeUp. Our 90-minute conversation focused on the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall. During our chat, Steve shared a video with me that was published by Zvezda, a TV network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The clip purportedly captured the moment when gunmen entered the building: [Embedded video, just over a minute long]
Let’s review the video together, for Science.
At the 0:00 mark, we see a man in blue camo with a dog standing near the entrance of the building. This is not a civilian. He’s either private security, OMON (the Russian equivalent of SWAT/paramilitary cop) or National Guard (Rosgvardia):[From video]
As people start to hustle away from the doors, this law enforcement officer just … walks away. He’s not giving instructions. He’s not consulting with colleagues on a walkie talkie. He’s strolling with his dog, who also looks rather disinterested:[From video]
0:10
The cop saunters past a group of people standing near a pillar. A woman in the group is already crouching on the ground. The cop keeps walking:[From video]
0:12
We start hearing clearly audible gunshots two seconds later, at the 0:14 mark. The camera pans to the entrance, then returns to the group standing near the pillar, who are now all on the ground. One of them has a camera.[From video]
0:20. Several gunshots are heard. The group of people near the pillar are on the ground as people continue to run/walk past them. The individual on the far left of the screen literally just walks past them. Whatever At the 0:16 mark a man in a yellow jacket enters the building. At least five shots have already been fired.[From video]
0:16
The man in the yellow jackets proceeds to slowly walk to the corner of the room, while the people behind the pillar create a barricade using tables.[From video]
0:27. By now more than 20 shots have been fire The firing continues and a glass door shatters, but the man in the yellow jacket continues walking without looking behind him, or flinching, or showing even the slightest sign of distress or mild discomfort.[From video]
Watch 0:23-0:30. Who is this guy?
The camera then turns to a nearby escalator, where two men are standing near a different pillar. They are not crouching. They are not even looking in the direction of the gunshots. They’re just hanging out:[From video]
0:34. Having a nice chat. Sure why not The man on the right is holding something. A puppy? Maybe a camera?
At this point there’s been more than 15 seconds of near-continuous gunfire, a glass door has been shattered, a group of people are huddled behind a pillar directly in front of them, and these guys look bored. Just look at their body language. Look at them! Are they at a corporate Christmas party or a mass shooting? (Maybe both?) Why are they completely ignoring the cameraman? Why is no one yelling? Why is no one saying anything? The barricade-people, the cameraman, the yellow jacket guy, the weirdos hanging out near the escalator…Not a single peep from anyone. And please just trust me, Russians routinely use liberal amounts of colorful language in far less stressful situations.
I just want to reiterate that bullets were presumably whizzing by these two guys as they stood around playing pocket-pool:[From video] The cameraman—who has yet to utter a single word, and has been calmly walking around this whole time—gets on the escalator and takes a ride to the second floor. Does the cameraman run up the escalator? No, he does not run. Why would he run? As more shots ring out he turns the camera to the first floor entrance. We see the barricade-people lying on the ground and the yellow jacket man just sitting there quietly in his corner.[From video]
0:56. On the escalator. Not in any hurry. Yellow jacket man just hanging out When the cameraman reaches the second floor, we see an individual standing near a door. Does the cameraman saying anything to this guy? No. Does this mysterious man say anything to the cameraman? Also no. Strange? Maybe.
Then the cameraman just starts walking around—emphasis on “walking”—and the clip ends. Zvezda (which, again, is a media outlet operated by the Russian MoD) posted this video on Telegram with the caption:
"A very detailed video of the moment of the attack on Crocus City Hall - this footage was published on the Internet. Already at the beginning of the video, people are walking at a fast pace, as soon as the terrorists approach and the shooting intensifies, everyone starts running in panic, someone is trying to build barricades.”[Screen shot]
Is that true, though? Did “everyone start running in panic”?
People respond in different ways to traumatic acts of violence or when they find themselves in potentially life-threatening situations. Your correspondent was once on the receiving end of a rather scary act of physical violence and so he’s speaking from experience when he types that you just never know how you are going to react in these kinds of situations. It’s absolutely possible that during this very horrible event, some peoples’ brains just … turned off.
Maybe this explains the group of people who started crouching two seconds before you could hear a gunshot, and then proceeded to create a “barricade” and wait for certain death—even though they had more than a minute to run away. I’m not even being sarcastic. Maybe these people suffered from deer-in-headlights syndrome.
I’m not really sure how you can explain the behavior of the yellow jacket guy, who did not react in any way, shape, or form to numerous gunshots, a glass door shattering, and then dudes with guns walking past him. But who knows? Maybe another case of brain-malfunction.
However, we begin to bend the laws of nature when after about 30 gunshots, you have guys like this just standing there—not even looking at what is happening and showing absolutely zero interest in the horror that is allegedly taking place around them:[From video] If I had to write a caption for this video, it would not be “as soon as the terrorists approach and the shooting intensifies, everyone starts running in panic”.
It would be: 2 + 2 = blueberry muffin. Because this video is not tethered to anything even approaching reality. And you are expected to accept that. And if you don’t, you’re a very naughty boy/girl!
Why this mind-horror was conjured up and posted on the internet for you to watch, and what we’re really watching here, is a separate topic for another time. But while we’re on the subject, the alleged author of this video claims that he was working as a videographer and that he thought the gunmen were part of a “performance”, because—as he claims—that’s something that the band Picnic would do. No, I’m not making this up. Turn on the auto-generated subtitles if you don’t believe me:[From video]
“At first I thought this was some kind of performance by Picnic [the band playing that evening]. They love to organize all sorts of such performances,” the videographer said.Yeah…okay. Like I said, 2+2 = blueberry muffin. Why do you doubt your humble Novgorod village correspondent? He then claims that once it was clear that it was “real”, he had no chance of escaping like everyone else who had more than a minute to walk/run away, and so he decided to take the escalator. Okay?
He also claims he was walking slowly and that the video is so “smooth” (his word) because he has “bad legs”. He attributed his calm demeanor to the fact that he served in the Soviet Army. Again, just listen to his testimony if you don’t believe me. But this is exactly what this guy claims.
What the heck is going on, here? We report, you decide. I have to go feed some village cows now. More later. If you don’t hear from me in 24 hours, it means the guys hanging out next to the escalator all willy-nilly cut my ear off and made me eat it. Ha-ha. It’s a joke. Just relax. My poor little ear.
A comment at the page.
York Luethje, 2AM, 3/26/24, US Pacific Time.
The Swiss Policy Research guys have a pretty comprehensive analysis up:
And my comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl
Lockdown Times, 11:30AM, 3/26/24, US Pacific Time.
Thanks a LOT, Riley. Chilling!
There were numerous accounts by Russians from across the political spectrum in September, 1999 questioning what actually happened at the Rayazan Apartments where explosions killed hundreds of people, explosions which led then-prime minister Putin to re-open the war on Chechnya and use it to rise to the presidency, paving the way for his continued rule since. This has often been labeled an incident which pre-figured 9/11. Hard to find anything about this now which doesn't have some western think tank signature to it, making it seem as if it's all anti-Russian conspiracy talk.
And, an interesting interview of Nora Bateson regarding our situation as a species.
"Beyond illusions of control" - Nora Bateson / The History of the Metacrisis / Episode 6, Alexandros Liakopoulos, 2/24/24. An hour and 2 minutes.
"Nora Bateson is a is a meta-contextual thinker, a holistic generalist, and a next-level ecologist. She is the President of the Bateson Institute and her career extends to the fields of film-making, book writing, and systems-thinking education. She is best known for her work in the field of systems theory, complexity, and ecological thinking, while her books "Warm Data" and "Combining" celebrate the ecological nature of Life most profoundly.
Nora's philosophy is deeply rooted in the principles of systems theory and complexity science. She believes that traditional ways of thinking are often too reductionist and fail to capture the full complexity of the world. Instead, Nora argues for a more relational approach, one that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all things and seeks to understand the patterns and relationships that shape our world.
Overall, Nora Bateson's work represents a powerful call to action – a call to embrace complexity, challenge conventional wisdom, and seek out new ways of understanding and engaging with the world around us. Through her films, writing, and educational initiatives, Bateson continues to inspire others to think differently and to work towards a more sustainable and equitable future.
Nora comes from a bloodline of accomplished thinkers and scientists, her father Gregory Bateson and grandfather William Bateson. In this episode of the History of the Metacrisis, we talk about her subjective feeling of literally "standing on the shoulders of giants" and the sense of responsibility it brings with it. She explains why it is so hard for the human mind to fully grasp the complexity of life - i.e. mind's linearity vs life's ecological nature - and what is important for successfully navigating the metacrisis or polycrisis, and why she prefers the latter term instead of the former. We talk about linguistics and the meaning of terminology, the lack of the necessary language to understand complex issues like the metacrisis, the challenge of coping with delusional statements coming from world leaders in business, politics, and thought, the difference between "communicating" and "communing", a word she termed, the essential nature of education through the notion of "syn-mathesis", which she introduced to the vocabulary, and many more. We end up with Nora's reading of some phrases from her new book "Combining", a fundamental reading for everyone wanting to understand and celebrate Life's beautifulness to avoid, overcome and escape Humans' illusions of control.
PS: In preparing for this discussion I have listed some twenty questions or more. Due to time shortage and the very nature of the podcast, which is based on free discussion, I have only managed to touch two or three of them. So, as a spoiler for the future, let me just say this: some more rounds with Nora will definitely come sooner or later."
My comments. As mentioned, she values analog interactions far more than online connections. She repeatedly emphasizes how we see ourselves as individuals when in fact every facet of our being is relational, using as an example a math teacher in a class setting. Far more is going on than the mere transfer of math information, because the students are each a living being undergoing various processes, including the various interactions the person has been through in the immediate past. They both commented on a statement by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman that young people need not sweat about the future, it will be bright.
She does to some extent miss the fact that the individuation going on throughout our upbringings isn't genuine individuation, as we're all simply being trained to be members of a mass society, consumers/producers, rather than genuine independent human beings. But she does nail the fact that we're trained to see everything in terms of personal "progress" and "success," to the detriment of understanding the relational basis of society and of life in general. She (FWIW) maintains hope because there may be factors out there we don’t see. There are possibilities which exist beyond systemic control. What would she tell people to do, as an alternative to Sam Altman's advice to pursue success? Tell stories to one another. That's how we learn the complexity and relational nature of life..
And, in one of the crises which comprise the poly-crisis. the Gaza Genocide. The US decision to not veto yesterday’s UN Security Council vote mandating a temporary cease fire in Gaza may not be all that significant. From the Daily Briefing by White House Press Secretary, Admiral John Kirby.
"Today, as you all know, we abstained on the U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza until the end of Ramadan and the release of all the hostages. Our vote does not — I repeat — does not represent a shift in our policy. We’ve been very clear, we’ve been very consistent in our support for a ceasefire as part of a hostage deal. That’s how the hostage deal was structured and the resolution acknowledges the ongoing talks. We wanted to get to a place where we could support this resolution. But because the final text does not have key language that we think is essential, such as condemning Hamas, we couldn’t support it. Though because it does fairly reflect our view that a ceasefire and the release of hostages come together, we abstained.
Defense Minister Gallant is here today meeting with Mr. Sullivan — in fact, as we speak. He’ll have other meetings while he’s in town today and tomorrow, certainly with Secretary of Defense Austin tomorrow. And cert- — we certainly look forward to having those discussions with him and making it clear to the defense minister that the United States continues to stand with Israel as they fight Hamas and will continue to work with might and main to get those hostages back with their families where they belong.
Thank you.
Q John, what was the President’s reaction to the decision by Netanyahu not to send an Israe- — Israeli delegation this week?
MR. KIRBY: I got to tell you, Steve, we’re — we’re kind of perplexed by this. A couple of points that need to be stated and, in fact, restated. Number one, it’s a nonbinding resolution. So, there’s no impact at all on Israel and Israel’s ability to continue to go after Hamas.
Number two, as I said in my opening statement, it does not represent a change at all in our policy. It’s very consistent with everything that we’ve been saying we want to get done here. And we get to decide what our policy is. The prime minister’s office seems to be indicating through public statements that we somehow changed here. We haven’t. And we get to decide what — what our policy is.
It seems like the prime minister’s office is choosing to create a perception of daylight here when they don’t need to do that. So, again, no change in our policy.
As promised last time, here are my comments about the new What’s Left? Episode, as What’s Left talked with a long time collaborator, John Klyczek, one of the early pioneers in exposing the 4IR.
Catching Up with John Klyczek. What’s Left? 3/24/24. An hour and 31 minutes.
"It’s been a while since we had our friend John Klyczek on the show. We decided to invite him on to tell us what he’s been up to and what sort of things going on in the world are on his mind. As usual, the discussion takes us to some interesting and unexpected places…from the Greek Orthodox Church to the RAND corporations funding futurist dystopias of social planning and control. Check us out!.[Links]"
My comments at the page,
Thanks, Kenny, Don Eduardo and Andy, and John, great seeing you again.
Fascinating personal story by John of his eventual arriving at a Greek Orthodox spiritual practice. Reminds me of growing up near Washington Heights in New York, then home to large Greek and Armenian communities and their churches, researching (for myself) the different ethnic groups of Eastern Europe, and later on in life the large Russian community in San Francisco's Richmond District. Not my choice of spiritual practice, but these things are totally individual.
Highly interesting stuff about the Rand Corporation, its spin-off World Future Society, and the Delphi technique of structuring the game, that of pushing "alternatives" which all lead to the same spot while getting the different sides to think they are fighting for their independent perspective, even standing up for resistance. Good remark by Kenny on the need to be present NOW. Andy nailed it on how change won't come from the online-technology-created pseudo-community, real movement needs to be in the here and now. Change has to come from physical contact between human beings and the entire organism which is called Planet Earth, and what comes out of that. I, like Andy, Kenny, Eduardo and John, am not ready to give up, accept that any alternative just leads to the same hell. and just look for my foxhole grave.
I would add that this is one more piece of evidence that change has to be TOTAL. At every step, we have to challenge the ENTIRE global social system we call capitalism, in all its facets, and do so consciously. We can't just find safe havens, isolated niches, for ourselves and loved ones and close friends while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. We can find people online, but the real resistance has to be in the physical here-and-now realm.
Looking forward to Round 2 with Klyczek, next week.
And, evidence that peak oil is indeed in our rear view mirror. The impacts are gonna be in the short term, and worsen. Forget 4IR, even the present level of tech is already a dead man walking.
Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018, Alice Friedemann, 3/24/24.
Preface. When I first published this post in February of 2022, I said that peak world oil production might have arrived, but it takes 5 years in the rear-view mirror to call it. Now peak “crude oil including lease condensate oil” is officially here! Production was less in November 2023 than the peak of global oil production in November 2018. See for yourself at the U.S. Energy Information Administration site here.
You can ignore all the other liquids, they do not make diesel fuel for heavy-duty trucks, locomotives, and ships that do the actual work of civilization. Mainly the other categories are good for plastics, which we have more than enough of. Or ethanol for gasoline, but you’d destroy a diesel engine if you added this to extend diesel fuel. I suspect these categories were added to keep people from panicking like they did in the oil crises of 1973 and 1979. Why would they panic? There is a very tight correlation between fossil production, GDP, and population.
Unconventional shale oil was responsible for over 90% of the increased production above the 2008 plateau with a little help from Canadian tar sands. Seven of the eight U.S. shale basins are past peak, with only the Permian producing the majority of fracked oil. And it may peak in 2024 (Geiger 2022). Or not, some scientists think the USA shale oil production could be on a plateau until 2040. But at any rate, when shale oil and gas decline, will be a hell of a rollercoaster ride down, since shale oil declines 80% over 3 years. And already 81% of all the other oil production is declining at 8.5% a year, offset by 4.5% enhanced oil recovery.
As the energy crisis in Europe deepens, there could be a sudden mad rush of capital to explore, drill, and produce more oil which would keep the plateau going a bit longer. But wars, natural disasters, the export land model (the few oil producing nations left keep the oil for their own population and factories), plus other factors and black swans could also throw a monkeywrench in the works and cause oil production to fall rapidly.
Above all, it is the FLOW rate that matters. Half the oil may still be underground, but it will take longer and more expensive to get, and require more energy to extract, subtracting what can be delivered to society for other uses. Delannoy et al (2021) estimate that by 2050, half of the gross energy output will be engulfed in its own production. [That would amount to an EROI of 2!] Whoa — if the EROI of civilization needs to be at least 10 to 14, that’s the end of civilization (Lambert et al 2014)![
Also important is that the actual problem is Peak Diesel since this is the portion of an oil barrel that really matters, as I showed in When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. Diesel is what powers tractors, harvesters, mining, long haul, construction, and myriad other trucks that do the actual work of civilization. Diesel production may have peaked in 2015 (Turiel 2021) and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to shortages of diesel (Slav 2022). In addition, supply chain issues for goods are likely to increase since trucks make everything you own or can imagine possible, and energy decline will lead to a financial depression, business failures, and a lack of key spare parts for trucks of all kinds (as well as locomotives and ships, which carry 90% of all internationally traded goods, including oil).
And there may be a lot less oil than the EIA, IEA, BP Statistical review, and other estimates of world reserves have estimated. Laherrere et al (2022) explain the various methods used to calculate world fossil reserves, and why their method is probably most accurate — which is what Laherrere has written about for the past 60 years. Many geologists who’ve modeled likely fossil fuel decline within the IPCC climate model predicted that the most likely outcomes were RCP 2.6 to 4.5 (see the last chapter in “Life After Fossil Fuels”). If 2018 was the world peak oil production year, perhaps the lower RCP 2.6 is most likely. Laherrere et al (2022) estimates RCP 3.0 since the global CO2 emissions for the period 2020–2100 are approximately 1000 GtCO2 for coal, 750 GtCO2 for oil and 650 GtCO2 for natural gas, giving a grand total of 2400 GtCO2, with a further ~850 GtCO2 being emitted beyond 2100. Clearly such emissions are incompatible with the 580 GtCO2 limit to CO2 emissions to 2100 assumed by Welsby et al 2021 to meet 1.5 °C goal in the 2022 IPCC report. If the 1750 GtCO2 emitted so far has led to a 1.1 C increase, 3250 GtCO2 would add another 2 C for a total of 3 C above pre-industrial levels.
I think a great deal of oil will be left in the ground. Geology isn’t the whole issue. Oil makes all other resources possible, including food, so its decline is likely to lead to social unrest, depressions, war and civil wars, supply chain failures, natural disasters like hurricanes taking out offshore oil platforms, floods and earthquakes damaging refineries, and other catastrophes that disrupt oil production. And don’t forget that the FLOW RATES will be lower. Maybe the last oil will take 1,000 years to get out — if we can maintain the level of technology we have now when things are falling apart. [Sarcasm] Nor are unconventional tar sands (Canada) or heavy oil (Venezuela) likely to produce much oil since their energy return on invested is very low. So that leaves their estimate of remaining conventional oil of 1100 Gb (Table 1) to carbon of ~470 GtCO2, well under the 580 GtCO2 limit to CO2 emissions and if the above parameters occur, less coal and natural gas as well.
Latest updates:[Links]
Peak oil in the news [Articles starting in 2022 and going back]
And, more on global energy, from Gail Tverberg. Limited, she is after all an actuary and totally confined in mainstream thinking about the big picture, but some worthwhile observations.
Advanced Economies Will Be Especially Hurt by Energy Limits, Gail Tverberg, 3/17/24.
Historical data show that, to date, a reduction in energy availability has mostly affected the US, European countries, Japan, and other advanced economies. I expect this situation to continue as energy limits become more of a problem. Advanced economies will start looking and acting more like today’s less-advanced economies. The world economy will face a bumpy path in a generally downward direction.
In this post, I give an overview of our current predicament. All economies are subject to the laws of physics. We are biologically adapted to needing some cooked foods in our diets. We have also moved away from the equatorial regions, so many of us need heat to keep warm. With a world population of 8 billion, we are a long way from meeting all our energy needs with renewable sources alone.
The world’s fossil fuel supplies are depleting, but politicians cannot tell us the true nature of our predicament. Instead, we are told a “sour grapes” narrative: “We need to move away from fossil fuels to prevent climate change.” What this narrative, in fact, seems to do is shift an ever-greater share of fossil fuels that are available to less-advanced economies. It may also spread out the use of fossil fuels over a somewhat longer period. But there is no evidence that this narrative actually reduces the overall quantity of carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, the more advanced economies are likely to be hit sooner, and harder, than the less advanced economies by the problem of energy limits, pushing them on a bumpy road downward. [LOTS more]…..