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US Oil Production Reaches All-Time Peak
•�July 11, 2018
•�200 Words •�171 Comments
In a little-noticed milestone, US crude oil production in March-April 2018 exceeded previous all-time monthly peak of 310 million barrels October 1970. It is also extremely likely that production during 2018 will exceed the record year of 1970. So much for #peakoil. In all fairness, it's not so much that their models were flawed -... Read More
Da Russophile's Predictions for 2013
•�January 5, 2013
•�1,500 Words •�33 Comments
I just remembered I'd made some in 2012. It's time to see how they went, plus make predictions for the coming year. Of course I failed to predict the biggest thing of them all: The hacking that made me throw in the towel on Sublime Oblivion (remember that?), but with the silver lining that I... Read More
The Race to Collapse
•�November 25, 2011
•�1,900 Words •�79 Comments
As readers of this blog know, I have long regarded the return of economic crisis as an inevitability (because the core energy and no-growth predicament facing the Western world wasn't solved in 2008-9 but merely kicked further down the road by increasing debt and printing money). It looks like 2012 will be the crunch year,... Read More
OPEN DISCUSSION: Russia's Economy In the Next Global Crisis
•�July 16, 2011
•�700 Words •�24 Comments
The response to the last global crisis only consisted of kicking the can further down the road, and the chickens are showing signs of coming home to roost. Of particular note: (1) the recent upwards spike on bond yields for Italy and Spain*; (2) The political paralysis in the US that may (conceivably, if unlikely)... Read More
Russia Updates: Luzhkov, Rearmament, GDP
•�October 2, 2010
•�1,000 Words •�13 Comments
As you may have noticed, posting has slowed down in the past few days, mostly thanks to a combination of (1) Kindle, (2) 中文 and (3) the natural periods of apathy that afflict most non-pro bloggers. I don't really see that changing until the end of the year... 1. Sayonara, Luzhkov. Props to Jesse Heath... Read More
Another View of the US Economy: Observations on Exergy, GDP & Median Incomes
•�August 21, 2010
•�2,500 Words •�17 Comments
The standard view of the American economy is one of exponential growth: even if interrupted by a recession once a decade and a Depression once every two generations (the 1890's, the 1930's, the 2010's?), the engines of industry would always come back roaring again. Output per American could always be expected to increase as it... Read More
Russia's Roads to Nowhere, or: Build Railways Instead!
•�July 12, 2010
•�1,100 Words •�10 Comments
Though it's not quite true that Russia has "no roads, only directions", the old saying isn't far off the mark. The World Bank's recent report on Russia's economy notes that the Eurasian giant's road network is primitive and crumbling, coming in 111th in a global ranking (the railway system does much better at 33rd); more... Read More
Ecotechnic Dictatorship Is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
•�January 31, 2010
•�6,500 Words •�40 Comments
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why the only realistic way to prevent collapse now is to force through a "sustainable retreat"... Read More
References: Peak Oil and Resource Depletion (Up to 2010)
•�November 30, 2009
•�1,400 Words •�2 Comments
Although I have several articles on the threats posed to industrial civilization by runaway global warming and ecological degradation on Sublime Oblivion (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), I have yet to cover the Charybdis of resource depletion in as much detail (1, 2, 3, 4). As such, I have assembled many links to relevant... Read More
Review of "World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler
•�April 10, 2009
•�1,900 Words •�4 Comments
"World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler, published in 2008. Rating: 3/5. [easyazon_link asin="0802144012" locale="US" new_window="default" tag="httpakarcom-20" add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" nofollow="default" popups="default"]WORLD MADE BY HAND[/easyazon_link] is a speculative fiction book about how a sociopolitical collapse may be experienced by small-town Americans. It is of a reasonable length, engaging and generally well-written, although far from... Read More
Oily Origins of the Economic Crisis
•�February 18, 2009
•�800 Words •�6 Comments
In an article some months ago I suggested that "perhaps this crisis is simply an unconscious recognition of this inconvenient truth?" - namely, the peaking of oil extraction and all that it implies for the continued survival of a financial system built on assumptions of continuous economic growth. In other words, the fashionable approach of... Read More
Mailbag: Back from a Russian Century?
•�January 13, 2008
•�1,200 Words
Four days and 50 reader views into our baby blog's existence, we have been priveleged to receive a number of letters to our darussophileATyandexDOTru address. All of them deal with our Towards a New Russian Century? core article (which is, in addition, the most popular item on this blog by far - possibly because colleen... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.