Dmitry's an interesting person. Shuttled back and forth between the US and USSR/Russia encompassing the fall of the USSR, got a degree in physics and worked in high-energy physics, then linguistics, and on top of all that, he's a hell of a hockey player.
Become a producer not a consumer, learn permaculture design, buy a bike and learn to fix it, keep bees, retrofit your home for efficiency, water capture and grey water recycling, build a compost toilet, get to know your neighbours, smash your tv and buy some good books, get out of the city if you can, protest the bankster economy with direct action, keep 3months+ food storage, dump your debt and get some cash in hand, reject infinite growth ideologies. We can do this!
Relocalization, community-building and regenerative agriculture are the keys to weathering the growing storm. We can feed humanity and heal the planet with regenerative agriculture. That is most important to understand.
Minute 16:50, that is exactly what they did, to avoid oil price to skyrocket, they crashed the M1 ammount of Money 30% in Europe (similar in USA), so the crashed demand stabilized oil price (letting the poor countries (non Gulf States) to survive and prosper (wasting oil)
I admire your courage. My experience of talking about the future, even about investments gets a negative response. I agree that some people will adapt and improvise and others won't make it. This system is very fragile. I lived in Zimbabwe and that was surrounded by stable countries - when this sucker goes down there will be no help.
Great video. Thank you, Mr. Orlov. People, please watch and listen with an open mind, don't dismiss it just because you think our "Titanic" is unsinkable.Take care of yourself and your families. It's going to be a bumpy ride I am afraid. Good luck to all of you.
@23:04 he speaks if Green Revolution Corporate Petroleum shell, Michael Just made a Movie exposee of The Green lies, HE WAS ATTACKED BY EVERYBODY! I remembered you from Morris Berman Why America Failed and Shelden Wollim ,
We may run out of breathable air before we run out of oil. It's not how much oil there is....can you get it out of the ground. How much refining does it need. What are the effects of leaving huge holes in the ground. What is going to fill itself with? An oil glut is merely that there is more oil than people have money.
super basic- old oil was cheap and easy, the hard expensive stuff was left in the ground. The future is expensive and less productive. Canadian oil sands will perhaps double production in the next 10 years- doubling to 3 million barrels in a world demanding 90 million so even if tight oil or tarsands were 10 times better [and you just can't find enough trucks, men, money to make this happen] we are still running out.
Do you think the average price of homes, homeowners insurance, avg price of cars and the required insurance really has an intrinsic price just as gold & silver reflecting the shrinking Dollar?
I GREW UP IN THE GHETTOS OF THE NORTHEAST U.S.A. & BEING POOR & GRINDING ON THESE STREETS IS NOTHING NEW TO ME... IM VERY TALENTED BOXING & FIGHTING.. MY WHOLE CREW IS.... GUNS & AMMO ARE NOT A PROBLEM
The average person in Soviet were much much poorer and closer to the ground like many socialist societies are, meaning "the fall" is much smaller. The average American live in unimaginable wealth and are extremely dependent on the current infrastructure, and the poor are not really growing food in their home gardens but rather live off welfare or other governmental support.
I actually live in a neighbouring country of Russia and I dont know where you get your figures from but if you check the wiki on average historical GDP per capita you will see that the average for at the end of Soviet times was 1/5th of USA. The average American live a way more suburban life than Russians and certainly during the Soviet time. Its very common to have a secondary home, a cabin with a garden that is tended to every spring and summer.
Well, 13 years and we're still breathing so I guess he's wrong, the green chicken (Doomberg) told me that. The world is awash in fossil fuels. Technology (engineers) overwhelm constraints with new ways to do things. But regards the US government and the financial condition, he's probably closer, but I think the crash will be a slow one, not like Russia at all although he has good points.
Good news 2020 now with Russia now a major grain exporter! And Russia has grain reserves. The US has none now in 2020. We also have now the very curious DEAGLE.COM prediction of population of USA in 2025 of 100 million, down from 330 million. I wonder what Mr. Orlov would think of the this? Supposedly the drop is from economic collapse and lots of emigration.
I find Mr. Orlov's approach in preserving the environment, to follow in the footsteps of Eastern Orthodox theology: You are the cause of the crisis, so change your own behavior. Live off the land, change your own carbon footprint, instead of drafting grand strategies and using big words. I believe that Eastern Orthodoxy views every man as a sinner who must confront his own fallibility. Western Christianity, on the other hand, believes that a man can achieve salvation through constant improvement in the temporal sphere, which is what gave to the West Humanism, Renaissance, the Scientific Method, Industrial Revolution, etc. In the West, people feel that the solution lies outside of their own personal responsibility and action, in the realm of government strategies and expert consultations.
Good Points Maybe, as the bible says, we are ultimately our own worst enemy. It is hard to see reality and easier to stay in denial. Maybe we will watch enough of this stuff to wake up and get others out of their sleepwalking.
@lordkoos The masses has not woken up yet, they are to busy watching new music videos and sports games. I am also Russian and I have lived in Russia during collapse it's not a pretty thing. For the majority of the people it has not even occurred yet that this collapse is upon us. I would move back to Russia in a heartbeat but I have hard time convincing my parents to move back and I will not leave them here alone.
Pay attention to the small details he talks about. Think about it. Resource Based Economy is no solution. Simple balance and planning for tomorrow is really the only way. Any system will lead to greed and control. But today, in our culture (Western), we are spoiled. Can anyone imagine waiting in line for bread and water then going back to your tent? Think about it...
All you neo-malthusians are ignoring one important fact: Oil responds to a physical price mechanism, despite all the interference and subsidies. Whereas modern "Money" is purely a debt-based fiat currency, and the root of such skewed information which causes a postponed scarcity. Most likely, it will only force a massive but slow decline with tribal and communal TAZs sprouting up over several decades as the internationally financed corporate-states collapse. Think more Rome, less USSR
I am dropping out of grad school because there is no work for teachers. Unions are being crushed by republicans and democrats alike. Just like Dimitry I am Russian and very pragmatic which explains why I don't see any reason to continue my education. Why get a masters degree if I can't get a job in that field. Colleges have become the new ponzi schemes. One can not file bankruptcy due to college loans.
@mphello the states are already doing this with non violent drug offenders- they shouldn't be in prisons to begin with but now with no job opportunities, it will be an interesting outcome
@123BDG123 Rural Americans can be self-reliant precisely because there are relatively few of them. If the market economy collapses and there are a thousand people trying to shoot the same deer, well, you can see the problem!
@hurin11000 The last one I checked was in Tennessee around New River. The wells in this area are known 2 be low IP (initial pressure) and produce less than 10 barrels a day but produce much longer than higher IP wells but the grade is extremely high (low sulphuric content) clear golden. The pump jack not in motion but the tank battery ( holding tank) was half full. in a 10 mile radius as gas well thought to be dormant exploded a few years ago a was an inferno for a wk before they recapped it
I think there is a chance that Orlov is pessimist about the number of people that can survive at least in a frst time. Especially those who gets knowledge about survival and craft skills right now. The agro industry is not the most intensive way of producing food but the more profitable because it saves labor. Small farming is able to sustain more and the agro system mainly produces waste and pollution. Besides wild resource are badly exploited, as industrial fishing shows it (waste + damage).
No way, fertilizant use started in England in 1843, with Chile phosphore (gone), we need oil-farming to produce. Just the pre-oil food 1943 was 2000 mill. people
Lets assume you [and the optimists out there] are correct. True - there is plenty of oil and gas still in the ground- but it is either thick and sticky or very hard to get. Either way the easy oil is going quickly- production despite the best selling price has flat lined- getting the other stuff costs a lot, in money and energy. Old oil required 1 barrel of oil to get out 10- tarsands require 3. Also you just run out of people, space, equipment to get tarsands out. Basic economics.
I thought 12:50 was a very interesting point, in regards to secession from the Union. I have been thinking about the secession scenario for a while. Decentralization may be an attractive option in case of the collapse scenario, since the D.C. has already shown that it is either unwilling or incapable of dealing with real socio-politico-economic issues of our day. Not to mention that political collapse invalidates 'patriotic' and 'American' values as means to form shared national values.
I'm gonna get a cattle dog, & a black 351 XB Ford Falcon GT coup with some gas tanks hanging out the back window & a big filthy (fake) blower sticking out of the bonnet so then I can go chill out with Mad Max...who's with me ;)
Putin made an astute comment collaborating this podcast: “It doesn’t matter which political party is in power for America’s foreign policy will stay the same.”
@jmintube I think that really depends on how it disappears. If it dissolves and leaves remnants of extant factions or interest groups, it could become an anarchic free-for-all. If it's outmoded or made redundant through usurpation via ideas and values which offer equitable economic and scientific/technological progress, then we will have a nucleus for something more stable and sustainable. I think the most likely scenario is a combination of the two, thank lawd fo' dem interwebs.
@mphello if the world was run based on survival of the fittest - we would not be in economic collapse nor would we have reached peak oil there is something to be said for darwinism but it'll be even more interesting seeing how this all plays out assuming I live long enough to see it which is an iffy bet that even I wouldn't place
if i poured you a glass of milk, and you keep drinking it, eventually it would run out...if and and a friend want to drink from the same glass then it will go twice as fast. This is the most basic i can make it for you.
@danfromabove Service the interest on the debt until they fall down go boom, then ignore them. If there is a cesspool on th eproperty, be ready to dig to it to hook it back up. Put a well AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IT and make sure it is a force pump- that is, it can raise water, then force it down the pipe to a storage tank higher than the toilet and sink and bath tub.
I dont know how you define "losing the Cold War" imo, its good that the whole world lost that one or we would have a totally different set of challenges to cope with (like human extinction). If you feel the US are ready for a energy crisis then I am genuinely happy, but I am not so sure law and order will be very high priorities in "the land of trigger happy I'll shoot you in the face if you step on my lawn kind of freedom". Let the coming events prove me otherwise I hope...
What Dmitry means about losing the cold war is that Russia ended up with - after a period of turmoil - a country that's headed upwards, free or nearly free medical care and college and things like that, has stayed first in space exploration as they've been all along, etc. Meanwhile the US is becoming a hellscape only known for 'freedom to shoot you in the face" and that's about it. The US will try to keep its people from leaving and in fact it's pretty hard to leave, otherwise the US would have a major brain drain.
And doing so rather unproductively. Many Americans are much more self-reliant than any Soviet. Those living in rural America produce their own food and rely on bartering for much of their economic success. There is a massive underground economy in the US that Orlov obviously knows nothing about. If the US dollar went to near zero, similar to what happened in Iceland, we still have economic means of production to survive. It would just be a karmic event for those who are rich "on paper"
In 2005, Dmitry was gripped by "peak oil" monomania, predicting that gasoline would cost $12 a gallon by the summer of 2006. The whole world was "soon" going to change drastically, but Dmitry, with his great knowledge, insight, & abilities, would be growing potatoes, pickling mushrooms, and prospering in his woodland refuge with his wife & mother, while the rest of the world collapsed. But what actually happened? I've known Dmitry since he was a teenager. He's on the Asperger's spectrum, & bloviates reflexively. It's hilarious that he calls himself an engineer. Where is his engineering resume? What has he done as an engineer over the last 30 years? It's a lot of pose and codswallop. Dmitry has small man syndrome, for which he must constantly aggrandize himself. I clearly recall Dmitry inflating the sums he was paid for a couple of articles he wrote that were published online, while his wife quietly reproached him & supplied the correct information. The only thing that's collapsed is what little credibility Dmitry ever had. UPDATE: Dmitry is now a Putin Stooge, parroting Russian State Media Propaganda. Dmitry spews contempt for Ukrainian refugees, calling them "brainwashed Nazis." He has also stated in writing: "Homosexuals make no contribution to society." Dmitry Orlov only gets worse over time. Why is The Nation featuring him?
@@dandychiggins3345 What propaganda outlets are you consuming? I've known Dmitry Orlov for a long time, & know very well the extent of his intellectual dishonesty and how full of shit he is. How did you find your way to being a Putin Stooge, Mr Dandy?
I'd love to see this happen, there is a certain romantisized thought in working 100 days of year and live a laid back non polluted way of life. Of course there is going to be idiots starving and whatnot but that is good in my opinion. We need this to get rid of the bad genes in the genepool.
@tekfunk the inhabitants of prisons will be some of the first to go,...avoid jail at ALL COSTS,..being in jail will take away your only key to survival. MOBILITY!!
@danfromabove If everyone did what you're saying, most of the human race would starve. Non-industrial farming cannot feed most of the world. Everyone living in small communities would also be terrible - isolation breeds ignorance.
Been watching current videos on this guy. It's shocking how horrifically wrong he was about peak oil/peak energy. The US now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and is a net energy exporter. There are problems, but lack of energy simply isn't one of them.
Will someone remind these people and that Russian that the Russian government has successfully drilled 310 abiotic oil wells and gas wells and used the same Abiotic Oil Technology in North Vietnam, using abiotic oil and gas geological scientific studies and techniques to locate abiotic oil and gas in places where everybody say's there's no oil when in fact there is oil? That's why Russia became an oil exporter exceeding Saudi Arabia.
@@shiptj01 Are you quite do sure? Have you travelled to Russia? Have you seen our abiotic oil and gas wells? Have you traveled to Vietnam and check out their abiotic White Tiger Oil and Gas Fields? Stop lying to us Russians for we Russians who are in the know knows what we are saying for we participated in their drilling!
@biohax I risked my life in Iraq to get a free education and you are complaining about interest rates. I was a slave for four years and you are an Indentured servant now. Apparently the return on your investment is not paying off that well perhaps you should of attended a State School or a community college. Student loan forgiveness for teachers is no longer available in my state because we are about to lay off 20,000 teachers.
AAAHHHH HAAH HAH HAHA -WTF!!? that's got to be the funniest question I have ever heard anyone ask. Seriously, you should have seen my reaction to reading that, I would also like to know the answer to that now.
I appreciate Orlov's candidness and the crap is going to hit the fan but much of what he says is nonsense. He talks in abstractions without quantifying his claims. That is what soothsayers do. Quantify how Soviets were more prepared than Americans? We have a reasonably productive society. They did not. If if money would disappear, we could easily restart our productive assets. They couldn't. Soviets were captives to and often completely reliant on the state. He seems to be lifting Amalrik's work
Check out the Technocracy technate ideas of an energy accounting science design society. Google Technocracy technate or the social networking site ... Technocracy revolution on FACEBOOK. There is no connection in that information to Venus Project or Zeitgeist or the other Energy Economics groups. Biophysical economics is the subject in a non monetary system. It is secular and humanitarian and a viable way out of this mess we are in. Thanks.
yeah, I had a look at the american porn "industry" it is an interesting way of spending time together. Lets say VERY modern type of socialising. Oh wait or maybe I just missed something...but fucked... yes you can say that.
Thanks Dmitry, your thoughtfulness is rare and valuable asset these days.
Relevant as we enter 2024
Dmitry's an interesting person. Shuttled back and forth between the US and USSR/Russia encompassing the fall of the USSR, got a degree in physics and worked in high-energy physics, then linguistics, and on top of all that, he's a hell of a hockey player.
I believe you are mistaken, hockley Player Dmitry has no long chin beard, St Petersgerg Collaps Dmitry has long grey beard.
Something to listen and absorb many times. Very valuable discussion and information provided.
The old Dmitry meeting the new Dmitry. Have listened to yourself and your works for 15 years now. 👍
Clear sighted and well articulated. Thank you. Excellent talk.
Thank you Mr. Orlov for your outstabding insights. They are extremely valuable.
Much love to Russia from Slovak Republik!
🇸🇰❤️🇷🇺
Love it. I hinted about this on my channel but never as straightforwardly, honestly and eloquently as Mr. Orlov.
Become a producer not a consumer, learn permaculture design, buy a bike and learn to fix it, keep bees, retrofit your home for efficiency, water capture and grey water recycling, build a compost toilet, get to know your neighbours, smash your tv and buy some good books, get out of the city if you can, protest the bankster economy with direct action, keep 3months+ food storage, dump your debt and get some cash in hand, reject infinite growth ideologies. We can do this!
Relocalization, community-building and regenerative agriculture are the keys to weathering the growing storm. We can feed humanity and heal the planet with regenerative agriculture. That is most important to understand.
Minute 16:50, that is exactly what they did, to avoid oil price to skyrocket, they crashed the M1 ammount of Money 30% in Europe (similar in USA), so the crashed demand stabilized oil price (letting the poor countries (non Gulf States) to survive and prosper (wasting oil)
I admire your courage. My experience of talking about the future, even about investments gets a negative response. I agree that some people will adapt and improvise and others won't make it. This system is very fragile. I lived in Zimbabwe and that was surrounded by stable countries - when this sucker goes down there will be no help.
Fast forward to today, it's happening right in front of us
You made wrote this comment 10 years ago .. What is your thought now ..I would be very interested to hear your thoughts ..Thank you
Great video.
Thank you, Mr. Orlov.
People, please watch and listen with an open mind, don't dismiss it just because you think our "Titanic" is unsinkable.Take care of yourself and your families.
It's going to be a bumpy ride I am afraid.
Good luck to all of you.
Very interesting analysis.
A great and sobering presentation, thank you. A lot more people need to watch this.
Dmitry Orlov has awareness and speaks truth.
You are years ahead in forethought ...those at the top want to remain there as long as possible ...
This is an awesome reality check.
Love me some Dmitry.
Interesting analogy between the 5 stages of collapse, and the 5 stages of death.
@23:04 he speaks if Green Revolution Corporate Petroleum shell, Michael Just made a Movie exposee of The Green lies, HE WAS ATTACKED BY EVERYBODY! I remembered you from Morris Berman Why America Failed and Shelden Wollim ,
Example of rational thinking
I know it shouldn't matter, but nice to finally have a face to go with your phenomenal blog posts.
We may run out of breathable air before we run out of oil.
It's not how much oil there is....can you get it out of the ground.
How much refining does it need. What are the effects of leaving huge holes in the ground. What is going to fill itself with?
An oil glut is merely that there is more oil than people have money.
Intriguing.
Like Dimitry said, if you don't have character, you deserve what you get. Get yourself some Character, just do it slowly. Like Mole.ASSES.
great video....
Excellent
super basic- old oil was cheap and easy, the hard expensive stuff was left in the ground. The future is expensive and less productive. Canadian oil sands will perhaps double production in the next 10 years- doubling to 3 million barrels in a world demanding 90 million so even if tight oil or tarsands were 10 times better [and you just can't find enough trucks, men, money to make this happen] we are still running out.
an excellent talk
jim palmer Yes, its not often one can here so much nonsense in one place. How long have we been "out of oil?" is it 35 or 45 years?
Do you think the average price of homes, homeowners insurance, avg price of cars and the required insurance really has an intrinsic price just as gold & silver reflecting the shrinking Dollar?
great vid
I GREW UP IN THE GHETTOS OF THE NORTHEAST U.S.A. & BEING POOR & GRINDING ON THESE STREETS IS NOTHING NEW TO ME... IM VERY TALENTED BOXING & FIGHTING.. MY WHOLE CREW IS.... GUNS & AMMO ARE NOT A PROBLEM
The average person in Soviet were much much poorer and closer to the ground like many socialist societies are, meaning "the fall" is much smaller. The average American live in unimaginable wealth and are extremely dependent on the current infrastructure, and the poor are not really growing food in their home gardens but rather live off welfare or other governmental support.
One thing has not happened.
Russia has completely restored its cereal exports.
and here we are, 2024
I actually live in a neighbouring country of Russia and I dont know where you get your figures from but if you check the wiki on average historical GDP per capita you will see that the average for at the end of Soviet times was 1/5th of USA. The average American live a way more suburban life than Russians and certainly during the Soviet time. Its very common to have a secondary home, a cabin with a garden that is tended to every spring and summer.
Well, 13 years and we're still breathing so I guess he's wrong, the green chicken (Doomberg) told me that. The world is awash in fossil fuels. Technology (engineers) overwhelm constraints with new ways to do things. But regards the US government and the financial condition, he's probably closer, but I think the crash will be a slow one, not like Russia at all although he has good points.
I thought the starting of his message was basic and very intresting.
Good news 2020 now with Russia now a major grain exporter! And Russia has grain reserves. The US has none now in 2020. We also have now the very curious DEAGLE.COM prediction of population of USA in 2025 of 100 million, down from 330 million. I wonder what Mr. Orlov would think of the this? Supposedly the drop is from economic collapse and lots of emigration.
Fuck America
Depressing - well reasoned- sadly probably true
I find Mr. Orlov's approach in preserving the environment, to follow in the footsteps of Eastern Orthodox theology: You are the cause of the crisis, so change your own behavior. Live off the land, change your own carbon footprint, instead of drafting grand strategies and using big words. I believe that Eastern Orthodoxy views every man as a sinner who must confront his own fallibility. Western Christianity, on the other hand, believes that a man can achieve salvation through constant improvement in the temporal sphere, which is what gave to the West Humanism, Renaissance, the Scientific Method, Industrial Revolution, etc. In the West, people feel that the solution lies outside of their own personal responsibility and action, in the realm of government strategies and expert consultations.
profound insights
Good Points Maybe, as the bible says, we are ultimately our own worst enemy. It is hard to see reality and easier to stay in denial. Maybe we will watch enough of this stuff to wake up and get others out of their sleepwalking.
Ths was written too right?
This is a great video. Presently, un accompanied children coming over the boarder, how bad must it be for the parents? Society in collapse?
@lordkoos The masses has not woken up yet, they are to busy watching new music videos and sports games. I am also Russian and I have lived in Russia during collapse it's not a pretty thing. For the majority of the people it has not even occurred yet that this collapse is upon us. I would move back to Russia in a heartbeat but I have hard time convincing my parents to move back and I will not leave them here alone.
Pay attention to the small details he talks about. Think about it.
Resource Based Economy is no solution. Simple balance and planning for tomorrow is really the only way. Any system will lead to greed and control.
But today, in our culture (Western), we are spoiled. Can anyone imagine waiting in line for bread and water then going back to your tent? Think about it...
0:38 makes a lot of sense. China needs to make sure there is hope for its people.
Empires RISE AND FALL, ALWAYS FROM WITHIN
Facs. But sometimes external forces do play a role
All you neo-malthusians are ignoring one important fact: Oil responds to a physical price mechanism, despite all the interference and subsidies. Whereas modern "Money" is purely a debt-based fiat currency, and the root of such skewed information which causes a postponed scarcity. Most likely, it will only force a massive but slow decline with tribal and communal TAZs sprouting up over several decades as the internationally financed corporate-states collapse. Think more Rome, less USSR
And, being physical, it will run out.
I tried commenting on this guy's blog, but wasn't allowed to join the discourse in the comment section.
I am dropping out of grad school because there is no work for teachers. Unions are being crushed by republicans and democrats alike. Just like Dimitry I am Russian and very pragmatic which explains why I don't see any reason to continue my education. Why get a masters degree if I can't get a job in that field. Colleges have become the new ponzi schemes. One can not file bankruptcy due to college loans.
collapse will be due to peak oil ?
Awww. All this time i was reading Passages by Dimitry in a very thick Russian accent..
Second that - great to put a face...and voice to your always convincing and often funny blog posts. Hope your warning is heeded.
Australia be careful
@mphello the states are already doing this with non violent drug offenders- they shouldn't be in prisons to begin with but now with no job opportunities, it will be an interesting outcome
@123BDG123 Rural Americans can be self-reliant precisely because there are relatively few of them. If the market economy collapses and there are a thousand people trying to shoot the same deer, well, you can see the problem!
@danfromabove dont forget ammo and guns
so by that comment the fact that S Arabia can't produce an excess anymore like they used to is what?
@hurin11000 The last one I checked was in Tennessee around New River. The wells in this area are known 2 be low IP (initial pressure) and produce less than 10 barrels a day but produce much longer than higher IP wells but the grade is extremely high (low sulphuric content) clear golden. The pump jack not in motion but the tank battery ( holding tank) was half full. in a 10 mile radius as gas well thought to be dormant exploded a few years ago a was an inferno for a wk before they recapped it
I think there is a chance that Orlov is pessimist about the number of people that can survive at least in a frst time. Especially those who gets knowledge about survival and craft skills right now.
The agro industry is not the most intensive way of producing food but the more profitable because it saves labor. Small farming is able to sustain more and the agro system mainly produces waste and pollution. Besides wild resource are badly exploited, as industrial fishing shows it (waste + damage).
No way, fertilizant use started in England in 1843, with Chile phosphore (gone), we need oil-farming to produce. Just the pre-oil food 1943 was 2000 mill. people
@@pabf2745 exactly
Lets assume you [and the optimists out there] are correct. True - there is plenty of oil and gas still in the ground- but it is either thick and sticky or very hard to get. Either way the easy oil is going quickly- production despite the best selling price has flat lined- getting the other stuff costs a lot, in money and energy. Old oil required 1 barrel of oil to get out 10- tarsands require 3. Also you just run out of people, space, equipment to get tarsands out. Basic economics.
I thought 12:50 was a very interesting point, in regards to secession from the Union. I have been thinking about the secession scenario for a while. Decentralization may be an attractive option in case of the collapse scenario, since the D.C. has already shown that it is either unwilling or incapable of dealing with real socio-politico-economic issues of our day. Not to mention that political collapse invalidates 'patriotic' and 'American' values as means to form shared national values.
Would that even be allowed
I'm gonna get a cattle dog, & a black 351 XB Ford Falcon GT coup with some gas tanks hanging out the back window & a big filthy (fake) blower sticking out of the bonnet so then I can go chill out with Mad Max...who's with me ;)
Paper billionaires selling 100s of millions in stocks to cash out. SEC filings show as much.
He is right. There are many things we should forget and start moving forward with new reality. Be realistic and shut a f.... up :)
Putin made an astute comment collaborating this podcast: “It doesn’t matter which political party is in power for America’s foreign policy will stay the same.”
we're fucked
@jmintube I think that really depends on how it disappears. If it dissolves and leaves remnants of extant factions or interest groups, it could become an anarchic free-for-all. If it's outmoded or made redundant through usurpation via ideas and values which offer equitable economic and scientific/technological progress, then we will have a nucleus for something more stable and sustainable. I think the most likely scenario is a combination of the two, thank lawd fo' dem interwebs.
@mphello if the world was run based on survival of the fittest - we would not be in economic collapse nor would we have reached peak oil
there is something to be said for darwinism
but it'll be even more interesting seeing how this all plays out assuming I live long enough to see it which is an iffy bet that even I wouldn't place
if i poured you a glass of milk, and you keep drinking it, eventually it would run out...if and and a friend want to drink from the same glass then it will go twice as fast. This is the most basic i can make it for you.
What was life under socialism like in Poland? I've heard good things and bad things
@danfromabove Service the interest on the debt until they fall down go boom, then ignore them. If there is a cesspool on th eproperty, be ready to dig to it to hook it back up. Put a well AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IT and make sure it is a force pump- that is, it can raise water, then force it down the pipe to a storage tank higher than the toilet and sink and bath tub.
@Democritus477
Yeah you can get anywhere you need to go in the city, like to the store that will have no food on the shelves.
It's Peak Shit! So long America.
I dont know how you define "losing the Cold War" imo, its good that the whole world lost that one or we would have a totally different set of challenges to cope with (like human extinction). If you feel the US are ready for a energy crisis then I am genuinely happy, but I am not so sure law and order will be very high priorities in "the land of trigger happy I'll shoot you in the face if you step on my lawn kind of freedom". Let the coming events prove me otherwise I hope...
What Dmitry means about losing the cold war is that Russia ended up with - after a period of turmoil - a country that's headed upwards, free or nearly free medical care and college and things like that, has stayed first in space exploration as they've been all along, etc.
Meanwhile the US is becoming a hellscape only known for 'freedom to shoot you in the face" and that's about it.
The US will try to keep its people from leaving and in fact it's pretty hard to leave, otherwise the US would have a major brain drain.
Guess all those survivalists aint so crazy after all...
And doing so rather unproductively. Many Americans are much more self-reliant than any Soviet. Those living in rural America produce their own food and rely on bartering for much of their economic success. There is a massive underground economy in the US that Orlov obviously knows nothing about. If the US dollar went to near zero, similar to what happened in Iceland, we still have economic means of production to survive. It would just be a karmic event for those who are rich "on paper"
you are sofunny, make me think of my son when he was an infant not willing to listen to my advice. you"ll learn one day
Even farmers go to the grocery store.
RUSSIA IS BACK & THE U.S WILL BE BACK‼️
You can get an electric pushbike that goes 60mph. I wont be walking.
Sayonara, goodbye then.
In 2005, Dmitry was gripped by "peak oil" monomania, predicting that gasoline would cost $12 a gallon by the summer of 2006. The whole world was "soon" going to change drastically, but Dmitry, with his great knowledge, insight, & abilities, would be growing potatoes, pickling mushrooms, and prospering in his woodland refuge with his wife & mother, while the rest of the world collapsed. But what actually happened? I've known Dmitry since he was a teenager. He's on the Asperger's spectrum, & bloviates reflexively. It's hilarious that he calls himself an engineer. Where is his engineering resume? What has he done as an engineer over the last 30 years? It's a lot of pose and codswallop. Dmitry has small man syndrome, for which he must constantly aggrandize himself. I clearly recall Dmitry inflating the sums he was paid for a couple of articles he wrote that were published online, while his wife quietly reproached him & supplied the correct information. The only thing that's collapsed is what little credibility Dmitry ever had. UPDATE: Dmitry is now a Putin Stooge, parroting Russian State Media Propaganda. Dmitry spews contempt for Ukrainian refugees, calling them "brainwashed Nazis." He has also stated in writing: "Homosexuals make no contribution to society." Dmitry Orlov only gets worse over time. Why is The Nation featuring him?
Video and photo evidence of Nazis in Ukraine is readily available. You must be blind.
@@dandychiggins3345 What propaganda outlets are you consuming?
I've known Dmitry Orlov for a long time, & know very well the extent of his intellectual dishonesty and how full of shit he is.
How did you find your way to being a Putin Stooge, Mr Dandy?
Haven't the faintest notion what you're on about. Orlov is a pathetic crackpot & a Putin Stooge.
@AppleScab (Venturia inaequalis
) There are no materials. Orlov is a bloviating dingbat shilling for Putin.
@ljrow49 Abiotic? Show your evidence for this.
I'd love to see this happen, there is a certain romantisized thought in working 100 days of year and live a laid back non polluted way of life. Of course there is going to be idiots starving and whatnot but that is good in my opinion. We need this to get rid of the bad genes in the genepool.
@tekfunk the inhabitants of prisons will be some of the first to go,...avoid jail at ALL COSTS,..being in jail will take away your only key to survival. MOBILITY!!
@danfromabove If everyone did what you're saying, most of the human race would starve. Non-industrial farming cannot feed most of the world. Everyone living in small communities would also be terrible - isolation breeds ignorance.
Been watching current videos on this guy. It's shocking how horrifically wrong he was about peak oil/peak energy. The US now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and is a net energy exporter. There are problems, but lack of energy simply isn't one of them.
yes it is
@SweetSweetWaldo Don't be ridiculous.
LOL Straight up
horses!
Will someone remind these people and that Russian that the Russian government has successfully drilled 310 abiotic oil wells and gas wells and used the same Abiotic Oil Technology in North Vietnam, using abiotic oil and gas geological scientific studies and techniques to locate abiotic oil and gas in places where everybody say's there's no oil when in fact there is oil? That's why Russia became an oil exporter exceeding Saudi Arabia.
Wrong.
@@shiptj01 Are you quite do sure? Have you travelled to Russia? Have you seen our abiotic oil and gas wells? Have you traveled to Vietnam and check out their abiotic White Tiger Oil and Gas Fields? Stop lying to us Russians for we Russians who are in the know knows what we are saying for we participated in their drilling!
I agree with 64jcl, you dont know what you are talking about
@biohax I risked my life in Iraq to get a free education and you are complaining about interest rates. I was a slave for four years and you are an Indentured servant now. Apparently the return on your investment is not paying off that well perhaps you should of attended a State School or a community college. Student loan forgiveness for teachers is no longer available in my state because we are about to lay off 20,000 teachers.
AAAHHHH HAAH HAH HAHA -WTF!!? that's got to be the funniest question I have ever heard anyone ask. Seriously, you should have seen my reaction to reading that, I would also like to know the answer to that now.
Wot wold the Arabs do?
I appreciate Orlov's candidness and the crap is going to hit the fan but much of what he says is nonsense. He talks in abstractions without quantifying his claims. That is what soothsayers do. Quantify how Soviets were more prepared than Americans? We have a reasonably productive society. They did not. If if money would disappear, we could easily restart our productive assets. They couldn't. Soviets were captives to and often completely reliant on the state. He seems to be lifting Amalrik's work
Wrong.
Check out the Technocracy technate ideas of an energy accounting science design society. Google Technocracy technate or the social networking site ... Technocracy revolution on FACEBOOK.
There is no connection in that information to Venus Project or Zeitgeist or the other Energy Economics groups.
Biophysical economics is the subject in a non monetary system.
It is secular and humanitarian and a viable way out of this mess we are in. Thanks.
yeah, I had a look at the american porn "industry" it is an interesting way of spending time together. Lets say VERY modern type of socialising. Oh wait or maybe I just missed something...but fucked... yes you can say that.