US: The Social Security Scam And Debt Bomb
Worried about the depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund, that carefully preserved safety net you’ve been paying into since forever? Don’t. It doesn’t exist.
Energy insanity
Just when you thought it was impossible, Cheney energy schemes get even worse
Geo-Green dreams
If Geo-Green ideas are unchallenged, we will watch tragedy unfold as unsustainable proposals continue to be written as energy policy in Washington D.C., with billions spent on blind industry wish fulfillment.
Battle for Canada’s underground resources
While Congress debates whether to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a similar battle with much higher stakes is under way in northwest Canada.
Back to the post-oil future
The imminent demise of the global petroleum industry will necessarily entail a complete redesign of industrial societies.
Forecasting the availability and diversity of global conventional oil supply (Summary)
An independent study has modeled various scenarios to project possible dates of global oil peak. The modelers used data from both the USGS and ASPO to reach their conclusion that ‘the answer to the question, “how much longer can we increase oil production?”, seems to be probably not much more than 30 years, and perhaps less than five.’
US: Energy crisis fuels revival of uranium mining
The rough and rocky terrain of southwest Colorado is once again luring miners with its promise of yellow wealth — not gold, but uranium.
China able to cope with high oil prices ahead of stocks build-up
China, possessing the second-biggest currency reserves in the world, will have no difficulty in paying for strategic stocks of crude oil later this year despite the high cost of energy, analysts said.
Iran: Arguments just don’t square up
President Ford’s team commended Iran’s decision to build a massive nuclear energy industry, noting in a declassified 1975 strategy paper that Teheran needed to “prepare against the time – about 15 years in the future – when Iranian oil production is expected to decline sharply.”
Peak oil puts us in a different reality
Peak oil means that we are entering into a reality far different and much more threatening than the one to which we are accustomed.
Activists and hipsters without territory or a plan
There exists today almost no social movement of a kind that leads human industrial society into a new, safe direction. This may be because (1) the anti-war movement, for example, offers little to the public in terms of a vision of sustainable living, and (2) the likely participants and leaders of a vanguard have no territory.
Lessons from Cape wind
It is now approaching four years since Cape Wind filed for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to build the largest, most ambitious offshore wind energy project in the world.
