Kurt Cobb

Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Common Dreams, Le Monde Diplomatique, Oilprice.com, OilVoice, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.

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Are your Cheerios impairing your fertility?

A lax U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is aiming right at your reproductive organs.

April 21, 2024

Tateyama Snow Walls (Japan, 2011).

Why we call it climate change

Our damage to the climate will make temperatures go up in many places, but in some places temperatures will plummet.

April 14, 2024

Man with cybernetic goggles in a forest

The short-circuiting of societal feedback mechanisms

Virtually all human and natural systems require feedback to operate properly. Modern global society has been manipulated to prevent effective feedback that could allow us to address the critical environmental problems we face.

April 7, 2024

Multivitamins making a design like nature

Biofortification: The latest technical fix for depleted soils

In the tradition of filtering air that we’ve polluted and treating water that we’ve sullied, we now have replacing minerals in soil that we’ve depleted because of industrial agriculture.

March 31, 2024

Great train wreck of 1918.

Why don’t humans respond to extinction-level risks?

Human extinction is a topic much in the air these days. But we humans are very short on action in response to the many threats.

March 24, 2024

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Owning your own information revisited

Now that AI has made it possible to reproduce anyone’s image and voice for video or audio communications, it is more imperative than ever for the law to give each of us ownership of our own information, image and voice.

February 18, 2024

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