The End of An Age
The decline and end (and beginning) of an age. An interview with Liam Scheff and Kayemmo KMO O’Khan. For the record or the road: an interview on many to most of the things that I think, write and talk about:… Continue Reading
The Oil Alarm
Peak Oil and Cultural Collapse
The Frackers Are Coming! The Frackers Are Coming!
by Liam Or, How the Oil Industry Promises You Everything (And Gives You Pennies On the Dollar) Did you know that Australia is being promised 100 to 200 BILLION barrels of oil – all through Fracking! “Brisbane company Linc Energy… Continue Reading
Oil Alarm Posters For Your Classroom
These are three of the six posters I made for the Oil Alarm. (I haven’t gotten to finish text on the others). Gardening, Trucks and Oil Usage. Please use the link to DOWNLOAD full-size, full-color, printable versions at 11×17 inches.… Continue Reading
H’s, T’s and E’s – A Peak Oil Guide
by Liam. This is a post meant for people who follow resource depletion, simplified for the group think as “peak oil.” But you might enjoy knowing more about the three groups now thinking about the way this society will crumble… Continue Reading
The Solar Myth
Many of you know I’m writing this during a severe health crisis. You can support the work at the links below. Now, on with the sunshine. by Liam Scheff A good friend asked me: Why do people believe the solar… Continue Reading
A Peak Oil Thought Experiment: Letting The Optimists Speak
by Liam Many of you know I’m writing this during a severe health crisis. You can support the work at the links below. Now, on with the grease. What is Peak Oil? No, That’s Not What It Is. People imagine… Continue Reading
The God You Actually Worship
The God You Actually Worship Humans are a species of mammal infected by a virus. We can’t see it, but it runs riot through our thinking. It causes us to be willfully blind to the hard realities of a hard… Continue Reading
An Open Letter to Electric Universe Community and Leaders
Or, Can We Be Interesting AND Useful? To Whom It Concerns…. I Love the EU concepts and work. I’ve written about it, talked about it, done radio about it, my book is partly about it. It’s a big part of… Continue Reading
When Nuclear Reactors Blow, the First Thing That Melts Down is the Truth.
A rare reprint of an essential article. How the “Peaceful Atom” Became a Serial Killer Nuclear Power Loses its Alibi By Chip Ward When nuclear reactors blow, the first thing that melts down is the truth. Just as in the… Continue Reading
But… Science!
But Liam! Science is so good! It’s given us… velcro! Vaccines! Longer life spans!! Well… There are 7 billion semi-diseased, pesticide-swilling, GMO eating human beings being irradiated in the world right now. There used to be a half billion relatively… Continue Reading
Rolling Stone Can’t Think About Radiation
by Liam Scheff Rolling Stone unveils its new, brain-toxic, flabby “think piece” about… yes. Weather. Weather will kill us all. Maybe. Unless a few plucky university activists get to ban CO2 and declare it enemy of the State, king of… Continue Reading
Betting on Reality
Our Food comes from oil; Our Population exists in numbers solely because of that food; and Our Oil is in decline. We have used up the oil that used to flow easily out of Texas, California, Mexico, Venezuela, the North… Continue Reading
Love – What’s Church and State Got To Do With It?
Our system of modern marriage is a land-holding and child-rearing agreement that favors the state at every turn. It is a kind of slavery to an idealization of feelings – a snapshot of a moment – a lovely, passionate moment,… Continue Reading
Our Current Dilemma
by Liam. The right wing investment sheets will tell you that we’re sitting on a trillion barrels of oil under the ground in North America. What they don’t tell you is that it’s wax and tar – and hard to… Continue Reading
Elon Musk’s New Battery Will (Not) Save The World From Itself
by Liam Elon Musk (innovator, inventor, engineer; formerly of Paypal, now of Tesla car company) is asking us to breathe a sigh of relief because soon every home will be running off of a battery – a “Powerpack.” It’s a… Continue Reading
It’s About To Be Summer. Grow Food.
by Liam Life is hard. People are deeply obnoxious – that goes for you, at times, too, trust me. I hear what people are saying. But I still like you. But you can’t change people, you can’t change the… Continue Reading
Science Will Save Us
Yesterday in a cafe, while doing taxes, I talked to a man who claimed to be a scientist (he was actually a cardiologist). I said I was writing a book about oil decline, and the need to relocalize food growing… Continue Reading
15-Minute Monkey
Understand this thought: Human beings came about in foraging groups. We did not have to think more than a half-day ahead most of the time. Maybe a day. We wandered with the moments, the seasons, driven by our stomachs and… Continue Reading
The Future of Energy (is in the hands of the people who gave you big pharma, war for oil, the war on drugs, and other big misses).
by Liam Scheff for the Robert Scott Bell Show. The future of energy is not in your hands – but it should be! On today’s show (3/27/16), I’ll tell you why planting food trees in your town is a better… Continue Reading
Does CO2 cause Global … Everything? (Or, Water for PEOPLE, Not Cows)
by Liam Scheff California’s drought has kept me up for days reading about water use. I’ve learned what I already knew – and it’s the reason I stopped eating big animals 24 years ago. A number rising to half of… Continue Reading
Be prepared to grow food: This Moment In Oil and Cultural Decline
By Liam Scheff Realities and predictions: Energy, water and food are all on the decline. With the imminent surrender of California to “reality” (aka, it’s a desert, everybody, and it always was!), food in the U.S. is about to become… Continue Reading
Water Crash and Cannibal California
It’s Liam with a message of… disaster! It’s Collapsifornication! California has a year of water left, says NASA, at current usage rates. The rationing, price-hikes, price-gouging, ruination of livelihoods, businesses and economies begins now! Get there early for a front… Continue Reading
One Pump Away from Zombie-Land
by Liam Scheff The drought in California is noticeable as soon as you step outside your apartment; the air is dusty, the air at a distance is a brown cloud, the earth is pure dryness; the soil yellow-brown, the leaves… Continue Reading
You Are Free!
by Liam Scheff You are free! To fall in love and then bind yourself to a mortgage locked into a suburban half-floor for the rest of your life and never experience that surge of feelings again that made you fall… Continue Reading
Thank You Mike Adams and Natural News for Getting “Official Stories”
by Liam Scheff It happens to be my birthday at the end of the month – Geminis – the communicator of the zodiac. And at a certain age, by your mid-forties, it’s hard to be surprised by a present. But… Continue Reading
Science is Fact!
Science is fact! • Fact is data, interpreted through a worldview. Science is observation! • Observation is subjective. Science is measurement! • Measurements are linear and limited. Science is Truth! • Nothing is all knowable. —– Liam Scheff is… Continue Reading
Science – The Petroleum Priesthood
by Liam Scheff What we don’t understand (because we don’t see the road leading from antiquity to the present) is that what we call “Scientists” are actually priests to the god of petroleum. Everything we do, eat, touch, see, taste,… Continue Reading
Fukushima Update: All the Madmen
by Liam Scheff The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has decided to go forward with its plan to destroy the northern hemisphere and everyone in it by removing the 1,530 fuel bundles from the damaged building #4 of the crippled… Continue Reading
Debunking debunking
by Liam Scheff Get into a debate about the make-believe sciences of today, and you’ll meet one of the self-appointed internet or journal attack dogs, whose trade it is to puke on reality and call it a ham sandwich. (I’m… Continue Reading
Death to America (Japan, Canada, etc, etc, etc).
by Liam Scheff Fukushima, the six-reactor, bleeding nuclear power disaster station, now synonymous with, “You maniacs, you really did it, you blew it up!” is in need of some very intensive surgery. And the Japanese electrical company TEPCO cannot do… Continue Reading
Syria: We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges
– Nutrasweet Magnate Donald Rumsfeld and a Former U.S.(CIA) Soldier Syria: We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges by Liam Scheff The following is an excerpt from Official Stories, detailing the reality of now. Invasions of seven countries in the Middle… Continue Reading
The New World
by Liam Scheff Proposition: We’re doomed, and we more or less deserve to be. We’ve done ourselves in. Our food, our water, energy, culture – everything about us is reeking of imminent death – or, at least, of strenuous, aching… Continue Reading
What’s a Sievert? (Damn! We’re in a Tight Spot!)
by Liam Scheff Hot Damn! Did you know that there are funny people running round who think that radiation is safe and harmless? Yes, even the nuclear kind. No, really! So, let’s look at data and questions that arise when… Continue Reading
Collapse or Contraction? Energy Show Tonight 9-1-2013
TONIGHT – Ce Soir, Esta Noche on The ENERGY Show! How does the world end? With a bang, or a whimper? Does it COLLAPSE? Or… Contract? We’ll spool out collapse-contraction scenarios, from most to least probable, and least to most… Continue Reading
Energy
We live at the peak of the petroleum age, digging up every square mile of land for a little more oil. We’re ruining our water, soil, air and land – but we won’t stop. We’ve got a looming nuclear disaster… Continue Reading
Good Times! Nuclear Wind Farms, Black Rain and Sex for Profit – Weekly News Round-up
by Liam Scheff It’s the theme song of today, boys and girls. It’s… GOOD TIMES. What’s happening out there? No nuclear emergency YET – but Pennsylvania wants YOU to know that it cares: “The Department of Health will provide free… Continue Reading
Event: Fukushima is the Only Story Today
by Liam Scheff Event: Fukushima is the Only Story Today Location: Your Town. Goal: To convince world governments that NOW is the time (now is far past time) to deal with Fukushima as an international event. Everyone in the world… Continue Reading
This Is Not Free Energy
This is Not Free Energy by Liam Scheff Liam, you pessimist! You don’t believe in free energy? Well, no. No, I don’t. I’d be very cautious about wishing for such a thing, given how human beings use the expensive energy… Continue Reading
News of the Week: Die-Off, Ahoy!
by Liam Scheff Do you ever wake up, look at ‘las noticias,’ and realize: “Yeah, this civilization is cooked. Die-off ahoy!” In Brazil: “More than 80 tons of fish suffocated in the Rio de Janeiro lagoon that will be used… Continue Reading
460 is the Unluckiest Number
by Liam Scheff Q: Is 460 a troubling number? How about “460 tons?” A: Tons of what? Cheese doodles? No. French fries? No. Unspent nuclear fuel sitting on the 3rd and 4th floor of a shaking building already damaged by… Continue Reading