Plan now for a world without oil
It is hard to envisage the effects of a radically reduced oil supply on a modern economy or society, writes Michael Meacher, UK environment minister from 1997 to June 2003.
Peak oil primer and links
The Energy Bulletin Peak Oil Primer
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It’s not about oil or Iraq. It’s about the US and Europe going head-to-head on world economic dominance.
Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war with Iraq. The war in Iraq is actually the US and Europe going head to head on economic leadership of the world.
Grains soar as supplies fall, oil firm
CHICAGO – Grain prices soared on Monday after the U.S. Agriculture Department jolted the world market by shrinking its estimates of last year’s U.S. crops and its projections for 2004 world grain stockpiles.
The Global Record (excerpt)
The gap between the promise of petroleum wealth and the perversity of its performance is enormous. Study after study demonstrates that, as a group, countries dependent on oil as their leading export have performed worse than other developing countries on a variety of economic indicators.
Toward A Global Energy Transition (excerpt)
This paper details a plan with a set of three interactive and mutually reinforcing strategies designed to reduce the world’s use of carbon fuels by at least 70%, and at the same time, create millions of jobs around the world, especially in developing countries.
Fueling Conflict
PetroPolitics Special Report: More than any other commodity, oil is the lifeblood of modern economies and the engine of military machines.
Fiction: Sixty Days, Next Year
Fiction: You’ll have to excuse me, but I don’t usually keep a diary. These events began before I understood what was happening, and where it was all headed. It was only later, after it was all going on, that I thought that maybe I should be keeping some sort of record–as if no one else was. We live in The Information Age, or did. Now it’s just The Dim Ages. Welcome to my world.
World grain harvest down 6.6%
Foreign corn production is expected to drop by 900 million bushels in the 2003-2004 crop year, according to University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist Darrel Good.
Wakeup Call on the Food Front
While Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Bush discussed Taiwan, currency rates and North Korea on December 9, a more important and far-reaching development in U.S.-China relations was going on far from the White House.
In the Capital of the Car, Nature Stakes a Claim
DETROIT- PAUL WEERTZ lives less than 10 minutes from downtown, but the view from his window is anything but urban. On a warm day this fall, the air was ripe with the smell of fresh-cut hay and manure. In the alley behind his house, bales of hay teetered and listed where garbage cans once stood. Chickens scratched in the yard, near a garage that had been turned into a barn. Mr. Weertz drives a Ford — not a sleek sedan but a rebuilt 1960 tractor.
