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The system of getting nearly all our food from industrial agriculture located elsewhere works as long as petrochemicals are cheap. If the world reaches the “peak” of petroleum (and later of natural gas) production, the price of food would most certainly increase If we take this contingency of expensive food seriously, what is to be done?
Oil law gives intl. oil cos. too much- Iraq VP
Kuwait drops peg in body blow to Gulf currency union
Traditional production unfit for half of Kuwait’s oil reserves
Heinberg on Iran: Now we know
Gas prices: Worse than ’81 oil shock
Senate hearings on oil and gas: We may have a problem
Asphalt prices pave way for higher costs
Detroit News: Raise gas tax by $1 to reduce oil appetite
Renewable energy: The tide turns
Spend, spend, spend is costing the Earth
Grant cuts anger renewable energy industry
Letter to Science: When the oil supply runs out
Variety reviews The 11th Hour
Interview with maker of Crude – the incredible journey of oil
New PO newsletter from NL: Oilwatch Monthly
ODAC News
Author Greg Pahl: Peak oil will force changes
The only way to change Australia is to change the USA
Australian coal industry:
Tough decisions to ensure a low-carbon world
Arnie terminates BHP project
Emissions-free travel way of life for globe-trotting B.C. couple
Paradise lost: the downside of travel
Freight train usage keeps rolling higher
Bicycles beat subway as fastest mode of travel in NYC
The heat is on: Predicting British weather
Scorching summer forecast in USA
It’s not your imagination: fires are more common
Governments undermining action on climate, Canadian, U.S. critics charge
NYT Magazine: Al Gore has big plans
Byron Bay won’t budge over rising sea liability
We do not have to discuss or doubt the established historic rise in temperature, but we have to discuss and doubt the future temperature increases that the IPCC scenarios project and the fossil resources that IPCC assumes in its prognoses.
Metaphors are important even if they remain unstated. The modern conception of an economy is dominated by the theory of neoclassical economics, whose metaphor is hidden from view, the field would otherwise look ridiculous if its roots were front and center.
Eating organic on a food stamp budget
Bitter-sweet Harvest- a beekeeper’s year
