Deirdre’s Substack
I write on the war, the economy, the environment and net energy decline, monetary reform, land taxes, climate change, the polycrisis, resilience, food security, local politics, community currencies, zero interest loans and NZ politics.
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- Sep 23, 2026
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Let’s compare what diesel shortages mean for France and for Mali (opens the original)
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Are we wrong about the Great Simplification? (opens the original)
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A few extracts from X, formerly twitter, about extreme weather events round the globe. (opens the original)
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OK I will omit all tweets about the Iran war, Trump’s stupidity and lies, Brent crude reaching $99, Bernie Sanders 85th birthday and NZ’s stupidity in not joining UK and others about the West Bank, and just show you some of the tweets about climate change.I collected a few tweets on 5 September and a few from the 9th September and here they are. And I have omitted the videos and photos that accompany them.Extreme weather events are made worse by climate change. We all know that now (except for o
Our Total Energy has been declining since 2019 (opens the original)
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Not long ago (mid July) Larry Blair wrote a substack which he called “More People with More Money Chasing Less Energy.” Larry writes under the name NZ Energy.For this particular article he had 57 likes, 50 comments and 14 restacks because it was so clever.It contained a graph from the MBIE that showed our total energy from all sources combined has been declining since 2019.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X30t!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progr
Give Councils a New Superpower: Let Them Create Local Money (opens the original)
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