Author Archives: Bert Hielema

Our Finite World Exploring how oil limits affect the economy Skip to content • Home • About • Getting Started • Oil Drum Posts • Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis • PDFs of Posts • Presentations/Podcasts ? … Continue reading →

January 3 2016 2016 Anno Domini –in the year of the Lord Horae, dies, menses, anni, sicut umbrae fugiunt. That is Latin. It means: hours, days, months, years, are as fleeting as shadows. A new year. A Dutch song plays … Continue reading →

DECEMBER 27 2015 DOES CHRISTIANITY NEED ANOTHER PARADIGM SHIFT? (I am struggling with this idea: comments are appreciated.) 2000 years ago there was indeed a paradigm shift in the concept of what was seen as the true religion, one from … Continue reading →

December 20 2015 ARE WE ABLE TO MANAGE THE EARTH? The world is old, very old. The most prolific species on earth were and still are trees. In early days these trees gave the earth perfect health in the form … Continue reading →

December 13 2015 Is there still a Christian Life Style? Many a moon ago Francis Schaeffer wrote a book entitled “How then shall we live?” concentrating on Bible reading and prayer, not unlike the way the orthodox Jews and the … Continue reading →

December 6 2015 ARE WE READY FOR A PANDEMIC? A super El Niño is on the way. El Niño is Spanish for the child. It is the name climate scientists have given the occasional periods of Pacific Ocean warming that … Continue reading →