Kathy Hochul tried to color it Green, but Bitcoin is the color of money. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity …
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Checks paid by robots. Climate reparations from the cemetery. Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the current state of energy transitions in various nations and regions and the likely future development of the global energy supply.
New at the Belmont Club. The autocrats take no prisoners. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity – from energy and …
New at the Belmont Club. One gold ring to rule them all, and in the network bind them.
New at the Belmont Club. Which vision will rule the world?
New at the Belmont Club. I review my own article on religion and The Great Reset
New at the Belmont Club. Solving the institutional trust problem is the secret to rebooting our information civilization.
Got an author’s copy of Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order of which I contributed. Featuring Essays by:Michael AntonSalvatore BabonesConrad BlackJeremy BlackAngelo CodevillaJanice FiamengoRichard FernandezDavid P. GoldmanVictor Davis HansonMartin HutchinsonRoger KimballAlberto MingardiDouglas MurrayJames PoulosHarry SteinJohn TierneyMichael Walsh
New at the Belmont Club. We need to be lucky in the coming days.
New at the Belmont Club. The Ukraine war brings back memories from before we were Woke.
New at the Belmont Club. The Obama era mindset’s time has passed. But does Biden know?
New at the Belmont Club. When disinformation is nothing but lies all the way down.
New at the Belmont Club. The empire that was dissolved but would not die.
New at the Belmont Club. Enormous power controlled by a single key.
New at the Belmont Club. Institutions will prefer that you fear their black box if you won’t believe it.
What happens when ‘trust the experts’ gets worn out by politics? Why invoke ‘trust the expert systems’ of course. When you have no credibility of your own, create an idol.
New at the Belmont Club. A theory of victory that relies on unleashing chaos may have no winners.
New at the Belmont Club. How what looked like Obama’s third term became a nightmare ride.
New at the Belmont Club. Every civilization experiences an invasion of True Believers. It’s the West’s turn.
