http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog Chris Martenson's daily updates on the three "E"s -- economy, environment, and energy systems -- how they interact, and how they will impact our future. xx http://www.chrismartenson.com/bloghttp://www.chrismartenson.com/sites/all/themes/cm/images/cm-logo-xsm.pngChrisMartensonBlogshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Live.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/7B9ivWIg7Nc/75873 <p><img alt="" src="http://media.chrismartenson.com/images/question-mark-person-23834932.jpg" align="left" height="167" width="250">Uncertainty and anxiety have returned to the financial markets. Gold is down 18% from its high last year, and silver down over 40%. Europe is a powder keg and Greece a smoldering fuse. An Asian slowdown is happening in real-time before our eyes. Energy prices remain stubbornly elevated. Dangerously high unemployment persists in many countries and consumer confidence is again on the wane. Housing prices show no signs of rebounding anytime soon. Budget woes are accelerating at both the federal and state level. The cost of key essentials for living (food, fuel, medical care) and taxes relentlessly march upwards.</p> <p>In the midst of all this, we're hearing many longtime readers ask: <em>What should I be doing now?</em></p> <p>The short answer is: making the most of the time you have today, putting into action your prioritized plans to increase the resiliency of yourself, your family and community.</p> <p>This is the focus of our last weekend seminar of 2012, which will be held a month from now, from <strong>June 29-July 1</strong>.</p> <p>If you don't yet have your plan together, or could use some help in re-grounding yourself on what steps to take and how to prioritize them, you should really consider this opportunity.</p> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/what-should-i-be-doing-now/75873" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wVwNwn8wtlycbMKj6g67C_eUWKA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wVwNwn8wtlycbMKj6g67C_eUWKA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wVwNwn8wtlycbMKj6g67C_eUWKA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wVwNwn8wtlycbMKj6g67C_eUWKA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=7B9ivWIg7Nc:C0AZvSnR_18:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=7B9ivWIg7Nc:C0AZvSnR_18:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=7B9ivWIg7Nc:C0AZvSnR_18:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=7B9ivWIg7Nc:C0AZvSnR_18:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=7B9ivWIg7Nc:C0AZvSnR_18:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=7B9ivWIg7Nc:C0AZvSnR_18:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/7B9ivWIg7Nc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/what-should-i-be-doing-now/75873#comments Chris Martenson&#039;s Blog Kripalu Peak Prosperity weekend seminar http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/75873 Thu, 24 May 2012 19:09:02 +0000 Adam Taggart 75873 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/what-should-i-be-doing-now/75873 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/sk0Lcu93KE4/daily-digest-524-opecs-oil-market-view-aerial-oil-sands-photo-tour-china-liquidating-treasuries <ul> <li>Adam Fleming and James Turk on precious metals and mining</li> <li>Silicon Valley tech executive nabbed in false barcode scheme involving Lego toys</li> <li>Guest Post: Is China Really Liquidating Treasuries?</li> <li>David McWilliams: Eurozone Policy that Rewards the Reckless at the Expense of Taxpayers, and Crushes the Periphery, must be Resisted</li> <li>OPEC's View of the World Oil Market</li> <li>The Commodity Trade: Wheat Futures Continue To Soar; 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National security experts and other geo-political observers have waxed poetic at the thought of this emerging, hemispheric strength in energy supply.</p> <p>What’s less discussed, however, is the negligible effect this supply swing is having on lowering the price of oil, due to the fact that, combined with OPEC production, aggregate global production remains mostly flat.&nbsp;</p> <p>But there’s another component to this new belief in the changing global landscape for oil: the dawning awareness that OPEC’s power has finally gone into decline. You can read the celebration of OPEC’s waning in power in practically every publication from <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/the_americas_not_the_middle_east_will_be_the_world_capital_of_energy">Foreign Policy</a> to various political blogs and op-eds. David Ignatius of the <em>Washington Post </em>wrapped up nearly all of the recent claims in a nice bundle in his May 4, 2012 piece, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-economic-boom-ahead/2012/05/04/gIQAbj5K2T_story.html">An Economic Boom Ahead?</a>, when he quoted PFC Energy’s David West:</p> <blockquote> <p>“This is the energy equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down,” contends West. “Just as the trauma of the Cold War ended in Berlin, so the trauma of the 1973 oil embargo is ending now.” The geopolitical implications of this change are striking: “We will no longer rely on the Middle East, or compete with such nations as China or India for resources.”</p> <p>(<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-economic-boom-ahead/2012/05/04/gIQAbj5K2T_story.html">Source</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>While it’s true that the Americas hold great promise to convert natural gas resources to higher production levels, that is not the case with oil. The celebration of a geo-political swing in energy power therefore misses a crucial point: <strong>No region -- from OPEC to Non-OPEC, from Africa to Russia -- has the single-handed ability to lower the price of oil now, because none can bring on new supply quickly enough for a long-enough sustained period of time.</strong> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/opec-has-lost-power-lower-price-oil/75729" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9oz5-WEYm0Nt8Nd1I-y_FzY2s7c/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9oz5-WEYm0Nt8Nd1I-y_FzY2s7c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9oz5-WEYm0Nt8Nd1I-y_FzY2s7c/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9oz5-WEYm0Nt8Nd1I-y_FzY2s7c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a 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http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-521/75772 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/iWcSgqX1BNs/75731 <ul> <li>Here Is the Full Inequality Speech and Slideshow That Was Too Hot for TED</li> <li>Dental Abuse Seen Driven By Private Equity Investments&nbsp;</li> <li>How National Belt-Tightening Goes Awry</li> <li>Is Insider Trading Part Of The Fabric?</li> <li>Los Angeles Lives by Car, but Learns to Embrace Bikes</li> <li>The age of extreme oil: ‘This Used To Be A Forest?</li> <li>With Natural Gas Plentiful and Cheap, Carbon Capture Projects Stumble</li> </ul> <p><strong><img alt="Crash Course DVD" width="31" height="31" align="middle" src="http://www.chrismartenson.com/files/imagecache/product_image/products/dvd-special-edition.png?">Own the Crash Course Special Edition Set with Presenter’s Pack (</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/product/crash-course-dvd-special-edition-set-ntsc"><strong>NTSC</strong></a><strong> or </strong><a 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This is especially scary since <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/alasdair-macleod-europe-situation-certain-get-worse/75162">our previous conversation with Alasdair</a> was less than three weeks ago...</p> <p>Today's interview continues building on <a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/europe-crisis-european-perspective/74743" target="_blank">his excellent synopsis</a> from last month that detailed the origins of the Eurozone crisis. The fundamental shortcomings warned of at the euro's creation in 1997, combined with the excessive sovereign debts run up since then, have finally expressed themselves at a scale too large to be contained any longer.</p> <p>Today, Alasdair details in depth the huge and serious challenges facing Greece and the major Eurozone countries and the likely impacts of the fast-dwindling options left remaining.</p> <p>He sees no happy ending to this story, no outcome in which serious pain and permanent behavior change can be avoided. And for those looking for shelter from the unfolding economic storm, he sees few options besides the precious metals (which he believes are severely underpriced at the moment):&nbsp;</p> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/alasdair-macleod-all-roads-europe-lead-gold/75724" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1vKrzwZvWaci_vWI52apSkSB3j8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1vKrzwZvWaci_vWI52apSkSB3j8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1vKrzwZvWaci_vWI52apSkSB3j8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1vKrzwZvWaci_vWI52apSkSB3j8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=FbvQ6Re5JOc:LUHRIdZRa44:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" 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14:28:02 +0000 DailyDigest 75714 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-519-global-banks-rally-greek-exit-canary-gold-mine-apocalypse-fairly-soon/75714 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/bVZvn20-T8w/75654 <ul> <li>We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Collapse Right In Front Of Our Eyes</li> <li>Temporary Cabinet Named in Greece as Agency Lowers Nation’s Debt Rating</li> <li>Why The Next Inflation Surge Is Closer Than You Might Think</li> <li>US Envoy to Israel: US Ready to Strike Iran</li> <li>The Inside Story on the Gold-for-Oil Deal that could Rock the World's Financial Centers</li> <li>G8 Leaders Look To Head Off Euro Zone Crisis</li> <li>Forget Peak Oil, Time To Worry About Peak Oil Labor</li> </ul> <p><strong><img alt="Crash Course DVD" src="http://www.chrismartenson.com/files/imagecache/product_image/products/dvd-special-edition.png?" height="31" width="31" align="middle">Own the Crash Course Special Edition Set 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The images of the devastation from this single event (and the aftershocks) were sobering, in the least, and the reccurring theme that impacted me most was the masses of Haitians who were desperate for water.</p> <p>The basic ingredient of life was being sought after and fought over. Access to clean potable water was now a matter of life and death for so many.&nbsp;</p> <p>One particular Sunday paper headline and photo shook me for days. I kept this article taped up in my basement as a reminder of why it’s so important to have emergency water available. With it in mind, I decided to design a self-contained system that would allow me to provide water to my family for a minimum of 5 days and many more in a pinch.&nbsp;</p> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/water-storage-example-resiliency-building/75647" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HN1nZSvn_f1hVNE4J3zn7wWGezA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HN1nZSvn_f1hVNE4J3zn7wWGezA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HN1nZSvn_f1hVNE4J3zn7wWGezA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HN1nZSvn_f1hVNE4J3zn7wWGezA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=oEPElgsN7vQ:ccqpzQHRNi4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=oEPElgsN7vQ:ccqpzQHRNi4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=oEPElgsN7vQ:ccqpzQHRNi4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=oEPElgsN7vQ:ccqpzQHRNi4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=oEPElgsN7vQ:ccqpzQHRNi4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=oEPElgsN7vQ:ccqpzQHRNi4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/oEPElgsN7vQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/water-storage-example-resiliency-building/75647#comments What Should I Do? 400 Gallons. System Setup Water storage what should I do What should I do? WSID http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/75647 Thu, 17 May 2012 21:17:22 +0000 jasonw 75647 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/water-storage-example-resiliency-building/75647 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/ViZwVdwOMyI/daily-digest-517-moral-hazard-too-big-fail-judge-blocks-controversial-ndaa-north-sea-gas-leak-s <ul> <li>Bill Black: On JP Morgan's "Hedge", Jamie Dimon's Integrity, and the Epic Conflicts of Interest in the Federal Reserve System</li> <li>Why Plunging Commodity Prices Are Ominous For Stock Market</li> <li>Hot Money Bets Backed By Taxpayers: The Extreme Moral Hazard of 'Too Big To Fail' - Credibilty Trap</li> <li>Breaking: Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA</li> <li>Greece Can No Longer Delay Eurozone Exit</li> <li>Total Finally Stop Gas Leak at North Sea Well</li> <li>Debris Possibly From Japanese Tsunami Floating Up Strait Of Juan De Fuca</li> </ul> <p><strong><img alt="Crash Course DVD" width="31" height="31" align="middle" src="http://www.chrismartenson.com/files/imagecache/product_image/products/dvd-special-edition.png?">Own the Crash Course Special Edition Set with Presenter’s Pack (</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/product/crash-course-dvd-special-edition-set-ntsc"><strong>NTSC</strong></a><strong> or </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/product/crash-course-dvd-special-edition-set-pal"><strong>PAL</strong></a><strong>)</strong></p> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-517-moral-hazard-too-big-fail-judge-blocks-controversial-ndaa-north-sea-gas-leak-s" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lCiyM6mEc6CBarrtUeMMbbrVD5M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lCiyM6mEc6CBarrtUeMMbbrVD5M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lCiyM6mEc6CBarrtUeMMbbrVD5M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lCiyM6mEc6CBarrtUeMMbbrVD5M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=ViZwVdwOMyI:roQzxEWqlx0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=ViZwVdwOMyI:roQzxEWqlx0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=ViZwVdwOMyI:roQzxEWqlx0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=ViZwVdwOMyI:roQzxEWqlx0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=ViZwVdwOMyI:roQzxEWqlx0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=ViZwVdwOMyI:roQzxEWqlx0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/ViZwVdwOMyI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-517-moral-hazard-too-big-fail-judge-blocks-controversial-ndaa-north-sea-gas-leak-s#comments Daily Digest Economy http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/75562 Thu, 17 May 2012 14:40:22 +0000 DailyDigest 75562 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-517-moral-hazard-too-big-fail-judge-blocks-controversial-ndaa-north-sea-gas-leak-s http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/tMVPmtWonX0/75469 <ul> <li>Saverin dumps US citizenship ahead of Facebook IPO</li> <li>Italy Economy Contracts Most in Three Years on Recession</li> <li>IMF head says Greece could leave euro</li> <li>New Jersey April Revenue Collections 5.3% Below Budget Goals</li> <li>SNAP faces billions of dollars in cuts</li> <li>Shelling out to use Sonoma Coast beaches</li> <li>Recession hits "pretty grim" EU states in the east</li> <li>Metals Thefts Spike 400 Percent In One County</li> <li>Half of college grads working full time, with less pay, deep debt</li> <li>Greek Banks See Deposit Withdrawals</li> <li>In about-face, Greece pays bond swap holdouts</li> <li>Foreign holdings of US debt hit record high</li> <li>China faces pressure to reverse economic slump</li> <li>Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps</li> <li>Student fees increase</li> <li>KU proposes tuition hike of nearly 5 percent, effective next fall</li> <li>MnSCU proposes tuition increases for St. Cloud State, tech college</li> <li>Milliman: Healthcare costs for American family exceed $20,000 in 2012</li> <li>Over 55 and jobless, Americans face tough hunt</li> <li>Financial Troubles Continue for City of Lincoln</li> <li>Kuwait risks exhausting oil savings by 2017 - 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I guess there’s some solace in having had a nice break between the events of 2008/09 and today, which afforded us all the opportunity to attend to our various preparations and enjoy our lives.</p> <p>Alas, all good things come to an end, and a crisis rooted in ‘too much debt’ with a nice undercurrent of ‘persistently high and rising energy costs’ was never going to be solved by providing cheap liquidity to the largest and most reckless financial institutions. And it has not.</p> <h5>Forestalled is Not Foregone</h5> <p>The same sorts of signals that we had in 2008 are once again traipsing across my market monitors. Not precisely the same, of course, but with enough similarities that they rhyme loudly. Whereas in 2008 we saw breakdowns in the credit spreads of major financial institutions, this time we are seeing the same dynamic in the sovereign debt of the weaker European nation states.</p> <h5> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/get-ready-were-about-have-another-2008-style-crisis/75466" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vgILFn_uJUQ4fLwFgqTYthYPAL0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vgILFn_uJUQ4fLwFgqTYthYPAL0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vgILFn_uJUQ4fLwFgqTYthYPAL0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vgILFn_uJUQ4fLwFgqTYthYPAL0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=4ZAN9lQjaA0:hWhIihsu0fE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img 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14:36:39 +0000 DailyDigest 75444 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-516/75444 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/QjSENMXlPyw/75356 <p><img src="http://media.chrismartenson.com/images/us-capitol-sunset-4269350.jpg" alt="" align="left" height="183" width="275">Most informed people are familiar with the concept of Peak Oil, but fewer are aware that we’re also entering the era of Peak Government.&nbsp;The central misconception of Peak Oil -- that it’s not about “running out of oil,” it’s about running out of cheap, easy-to-access oil -- can also be applied to Peak Government: It’s not about government disappearing, it’s about government <em>shrinking</em>.</p> <p>Central government -- the Central State -- has been in the expansion mode for so long that the process of contracting government is completely alien to the nation, to those who work for the State, and to those who are dependent on the State.&nbsp;Thus we have little recent historical experience of Peak Government and few if any conceptual guideposts to help us understand this contraction.</p> <p>Peak Government is not a reflection of government services or the millions of individuals who work in government; it is a reflection of four key systemic forces that drove State expansion are now either declining or reversing.</p> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/acknowledging-arrival-peak-government-part-1/75356" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hG2wADZMzttSNgm_BKg6U2HbJkw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hG2wADZMzttSNgm_BKg6U2HbJkw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hG2wADZMzttSNgm_BKg6U2HbJkw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hG2wADZMzttSNgm_BKg6U2HbJkw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a 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So much is riding on it.</p> <p>Personally I feel that the scientific progress we have made over the last few hundred years is astounding. I don’t want to lose that. I think that is a gift to the future and I don’t want to run the risk of a collapse that could destroy all that we have.</p> <p>Even if you think&nbsp;the collapse is a low probability -- let’s say it's 5%, 10% probability -- it is an asymmetric risk. The downsides of not treating it seriously are huge.</p> <p>I mean, you buy fire insurance for your house even if it is a 0.1% probability that your house will burn down in your lifetime. But the consequences are so negative that you do it. And when you are talking about the accomplishments of all civilization, you need to buy insurance and treat that with the respect it deserves.</p> </blockquote> <p><img alt="" src="http://media.chrismartenson.com/images/oil-derrick-sunset-12992387.jpg" align="left" height="183" width="275">Tom Murphy -- associate professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego -- has mapped the distance between the earth and the moon to within a millimeter, and built instruments to study colliding galaxies. We feel comfortable saying he's a pretty smart guy, as well as an optimist about what human ingenuity and technology can do for the advancement of society.</p> <p>In 2004, he became intrigued with the global energy situation and brought his disciplined, empirical approach to bear. He set out to determine which new sources were going to pick up the slack once fossil fuels began becoming scarce. Looking back, he says the theme underlying his findings was "disappointment."</p> <p>The math showed him that there simply will not be nearly enough BTU yield from alternative energy sources to meet the rising global demand. 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