@sellathechemist I once lauded Nurse for his excellent piece https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02480-z (paywalled) and some biologists who knew him pushed back on it in a way I could not make sense of. Perhaps he's been an asshole for a while now.

I spent some time working on the "Yes, we're fucking fucked" blog post yesterday, but it is all so terrible it ruined my entire evening. Still I think it will be useful to have all the terrors on one page. Will try to add a little bit of hope to the article, otherwise it needs to come with a health warning.

This draft blog post incidentally is titled "Yes, we're fucking fucked".

From a long fermenting blog post draft. Venezuelan oil is not that interesting since it is tricky to process & thus very expensive, while oil demand is declining: