Executive Summary

• The incredible correlation between Economy & Energy
• Why limits matter (and will matter more in the coming years)
• The coming, unsolvable collision of our Economic, Energy & Environmental systems
• The looming deadline: Why you need to take action before June 2021

If you have not yet read Part 1: Losing Hope? Focus On Gaining Life Instead., available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

I have a method for analyzing the world which involves reading, reading and more reading, talking with people and gathering bits of information from far and wide.  Then once I think I know something I test that hypothesis by either producing a video, giving a public speech or interview, or writing it all out.

Usually that’s when I discover where the holes are in what I thought I knew.  Along the way I’ve learned to listen to my intuition and to pay attention to details.

Is something off?  Does something not fit?  Is there a niggling detail that I have to set aside in order for things to line up?

If the answer to any of those is ‘yes’ then the hypothesis or understanding is not yet ready for prime time.

After a dozen years of research and inquiry, I’ve come to a major set of conclusions: There’s a massive economic crisis coming.  And an energy crisis.  They are conjoined and each will juice the destructive effects of the other.  Oh, and there’s also an ecological crisis, which is similarly intertwined with the other two.

After watching the utter inability of my country to properly manage simple things around the pandemic such as providing rapid and free testing, and being consistent on the need for masks (while also providing masks) I simply don’t think we’ve got the ability to sort through the complexities and subtleties of navigating three gigantic, intertwined crises.

Which means it’s up to us to become resilient and prepared at the individual level.  If we can do that while also improving our daily lives and general sense of well-being, then that seems to be the best course of action.

When Contrarian Is A Way of Life

Nearly always this ‘job’ of mine has placed me well outside of conventional (and culturally approved) thought.