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The Thermodynamic Blind Spot: Why 'Peak Oil' Failed, and Why We Are Finally at the Singularity
If you mention ‘Peak Oil’ today in polite company—or even among serious economists—you are immediately filed away in the same cabinet as Y2K…
 • Steven J. Newbury
Why Social Science Cannot Read a Phase Diagram
I recently listened to an interview on the Planet Critical podcast with Javiera Barandiarán, author of Living Minerals. She is an academic who…
 • Steven J. Newbury
SASOL, the Nazis, and the Thermodynamics of Defeat
There is a pervasive habit in modern economic analysis of treating the laws of physics as optional suggestions—mere externalities that can be negotiated…
 • Steven J. Newbury
The Liquidation of India Ltd: Why the ‘World’s Largest Democracy’ is Actually a Lifeboat Operation
From Merey 16 to Groundwater Depletion: How the Colonial Elite are strip-mining the subcontinent before the lights go out.
 • Steven J. Newbury
The Thermodynamics of Humiliation: Why China Cannot Blink
In 1840, the British Empire did not go to war with China over a drug; they went to war over a thermodynamic flow.
 • Steven J. Newbury
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