Europe’s real-time experiment in energy contraction
Europe is finding out the hard way that there are no easy substitutes for oil and natural gas.
The Inflation Reduction Act is a new lease on U.S. climate policy: Let’s not screw it up
It’s taken over 50 years for the nation’s policymakers to put together anything approximating an integrated energy and environment policy.
“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields” — Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
The pipeline struggle has brought together communities that rarely find common cause and can often be adversaries.
Life expectancy: The US and Cuba in the time of Covid
For the first time, life expectancy in Cuba exceeds that in the US by almost three years. The reasons include responses to Covid, health care systems, racism, poverty, misinformation campaigns, the embargo, international solidarity efforts, and resilience to climate change.
Death by hockey sticks
You may be familiar with the term “hockey stick curve,” used describe a trend that has been flat/stable for a very long time, but shoots up at the end of the series in dramatic fashion, resembling the shape of a hockey stick.
Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Taylor Brorby has written one hell of a memoir. It covers many critical topics that come up in Crazy Town, from fracking to civil disobedience to that most inept of policies: aiming for infinite economic growth on a finite planet.
We Are the Middle of Forever: Excerpt
Kinship is a certain type of relationship that we all have with each other. No matter what society you live in, there’s going to be some degree of kinship.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 13 September 2022
Limited global LNG supplies could be “really, really tight this winter.”
Power: Chapter 7. The Fate of the Superorganism
Ecologists have been telling us that “small is beautiful” since the 1960s, but trends have gone in just the opposite direction, resulting in the flourishing of the Superorganism. Nobody designed this vast, intricate web of global interconnectedness, and no one can control it.
Why we worship waste
Most of us are taught from childhood that waste is bad. But society actually worships waste as a sign of wealth and power.
Light posting September 9 – 27
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting on Resilience.org from September 9 through the 26th of September. Regular postings will resume on the 27th of September.
Barred from the Climate Conversation
Without equal representation from the Global South, where these effects will be most severely felt, there is no hope that just solutions will be found and met.
