Blind Spot

Really nice production here, with most of our friends: Heinberg, the Bartletts (Albert and Roscoe), Tainter, Savinar, etc. Puts just about everything in perspective, with easy to understand explanations. In a different culture, works like these would be a wake-up call, but not in the US. Not too hard to realize why, and the film takes a pretty good stab at it.

The Increasing Power of Diminishing Marginal Returns

Chaos likes this post quite a bit: Sharon Astyck of the Energy Bulletin explains why we (the collective "we") don't have the resources (or "money," to be reductionist) to accomplish the tasks we need to in order to address the converging catastrophes that loom in front of us. Anyone who's read Tainter will immediately get it, but the rest of the somnolent public will continue to be clueless. However, a look around will provide ample evidence of the principle of diminishing marginal returns on complexity: freeway building, for one; healthcare, for another. Any others that spring to mind?