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January 25 2019
I'm still working on a review of two of James Kunstler's non-fiction
books, The Long Emergency and Too Much Magic.  I read them back to
back as the latter was written as a follow up to the former.

Speaking of Kunstler, I discovered he does a regular podcast,
generally hour long interviews with various people in various fields
that orbit what might be called the "Collapsiverse".  His recent
interview John M. Greer [1] is quite good. I've listened to several
other interviews and have added a an entry under Links.

Two other sites I recently became aware of:

Life Its Self [2] - This is an occasional blog by Tad Patzek, a
Professor of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering.  He co-authored
the 2014 University of Texas study headed by Scott Tinker [3] of
Switch Project [4] fame which analyzed potential of the US 
shale gas industry. Patzek was interviewed for a Nature article [5]
that generated a bit of controversy due to it's rather low estimates
of actual recoverable gas reserves which didn't match the Wall
street hype.  Patzek was at UT at the time but has since taken a
position at Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Center in Saudi Arabia.

Survival Acres [6] - This is a voluminous blog by Jonathan Richards*
whom I don't know much about other than he appears to be a recovering
survivalist type who eventually saw the scene for what it is, a cult
of profit-motivated fear-mongering; divide and conquer as they say.
Richards actually left a comment on Patzek's blog which is how I
came across it.  One thing that impressed me was his post announcing
The LIFE PROJECT [7] which "proposes the creation of protected
bio-regional zones and habitation for human and biological survival
on every habitable continent selected to ensure continuity of life
for the human race and as many other species as possible.", sort of
along the lines of E.O. Wilson's Half Earth proposal [8].

Lastly, if all this is getting you a bit down perhaps affecting
George Carlin's detached amusement [9] will help.  Carlin was a
smart guy and arguably ahead of the curve insofar as sensing things
may be going sideways soon for humanity.

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  hour long interview with Mr. Richards [10] ; well worth listening
  to. Apparently Richards hasn't consented to an interview in quite
  some time, 23 years to be exact.

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[1]  http://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-312-yakking-with-john-michael-greer/
[2]  http://patzek-lifeitself.blogspot.com/
[3]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_W._Tinker
[4]  http://www.switchenergyproject.com/
[5]  https://www.nature.com/news/natural-gas-the-fracking-fallacy-1.16430
[6]  http://survivalacres.com/blog/
[7]  http://survivalacres.com/blog/the-life-program-strategic-initiative-for-reduced-human-survival/
[8]  https://www.half-earthproject.org/
[9]  https://youtu.be/-ERFBg2Uh1c
[10] https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/02/climate-food-shock.html