A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
•White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral •Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012 •San Francisco city council asks pension fund to divest its oil shares •The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction •Even A Moderate …
•The Great Unmentionable •Why can't we quit fossil fuels? •The Fossil Fuel Resistance •Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: 'We're trying to buy time for the world to wake up' •Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming - report •Meet an Orion …
•California's Fracking Bonanza May Fall Short of Promise •How North Sea oil helped Margaret Thatcher •Will Fossil Fuels Be Able to Maintain Economic Growth? A Q&A with Charles Hall •Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab oil producers •Peak Oil Flip-Flop
•An 'Absolute Will To Forget': Iraq Casts Shorter Shadow Than Vietnam •David Frum, the Iraq war and oil •Bombs kill nearly 60 on Iraq invasion anniversary •Hawks Defend War on Low-Key 10th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion •Search and Destroy: The rape of Iraq •Death and …
It is now 10 years that the coalition of the willing, err… peaking (US peak 1970, UK peak 1999, Australia peak 2000) invaded Iraq. This was not just an oil war. It was a peak oil war.
•Will EDF become the Barbra Streisand of climate protest? •US Generals warn of climate change dangers •Is climate change next for GOP? •Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine •China Carbon Tax May Spur U.S. Climate Debate, CMIA Says •EU lawmakers back suspension of airline …
A weekly review including: 1. Oil and the Global Economy, 2. The Middle East, 3. Climate Change, 4. Europe, 5. Quote of the Week 6. The Briefs
The hard work of reinventing democracy in a post-imperial America, the subject of several of last month’s posts, is only one facet of this broader challenge. I’ve mentioned before that the pursuit of empire is a drug, and like most other drugs, it makes you feel great at the time …
A few weeks before I left, John Michael Greer published a fictional story about America losing its hegemonic grip entitled How it could Happen. The opening...focused on a proxy war between China and the US in east Africa over oil rights following a discovery in Tanzania...I was on the lookout …
