- BPE = Business, Politics and the discipline of Economics - the compact of opinion leaders who govern the world.
- ECONOMIC GROWTH = The difference in GDP between one year and the
previous one. GDP=Money=Material. "Dematerialised growth" is nonsense
sublime.
- HOT = Hope Optimism Technology - the belief that the future will brings the miracle solutions.
- LSM = Lame Stream Media - the majority of media, uncritically reproducing what the BPE Compact propounds, including the such stupidities as "sustainable growth".
- OVERSHOOT = Too many people consuming too much resources, possibly
more than 400 times in excess of the planet's carrying capacity.
- PIP = People In Power.
- PPOD = Post Peak Oil Downslope - the irredeemable reduction of agricultural and industrial production after the end of peak oil availability.
- PPRD = Post Peak Resources Downslope - the societal downslope because of diminishing resources and increased scarcities of food, water, space, minerals and energy.
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