Energy and Resilience

New Zealand's Gas Supply Crunch: A foretaste of the Global Reality the IEA Is Warning Us About re Oil Supply?

A call to urgent, transformational action!

Sep 22, 2025 • Nathan Surendran

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July 2025

Time to Stop Pretending

Vinay Gupta - talking at the 2010 Dark Mountain gathering 'Uncivilisation'

Jul 21, 2025 • Nathan Surendran

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Diesel Supply Risk - News Roundup

Overview July 2025

Jul 17, 2025 • Nathan Surendran

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Nathan Surendran's Submission to the RSB (NZ) Consultation

a critique from the vital perspectives of the energy cost of energy (ECoE), biophysical limits, and the realities of the coming age of energy…

Jul 7, 2025 • Nathan Surendran

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May 2024

The Future of Energy: Embracing Biophysical Realities

Nathan Surendran on behalf of Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand - Submission to MBIE SSAG consultation on sectoral questions that consider the role of…

May 19, 2024 • Nathan Surendran

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April 2024

Fat Cat (‘Fast Track’) Approvals Bill Submission: Nathan Surendran

Racing Towards Ruin

Apr 19, 2024 • Nathan Surendran

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August 2023

Submissions and Presentations

Nathan Surendran's attempts to communicate our energy reality

Aug 15, 2023 • Nathan Surendran

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May 2023

Ha Joon Chang's 'Shortest Economics Textbook Ever'

The 5 things they don’t tell you about economics…

May 23, 2023 • Nathan Surendran

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January 2023

November 2022

The decoupling canard won't die...

aka, 'Green Growth is an oxymoron'! I keep coming across people contending that decoupling will allow continued economic expansion, whilst reducing…

Nov 9, 2022 • Nathan Surendran

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Energy's role in economic production is severly underestimated!

Another brilliant exposition by Prof Steve Keen. The wording below is from a LinkedIn post I made tonight, targeted to Megan Woods (NZ Energy Minister…

Nov 6, 2022 • Nathan Surendran

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October 2022

Energy's role in the economy and material limits to the renewable energy transition.

A collection of links that I periodically update!

Oct 14, 2022 • Nathan Surendran

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