The Energy Bulletin Weekly 11 July 2022
Headlines for the week of July 4 – July 10
The Greatest Crisis Facing the Nation May Not Be Climate Change
What’s left once you take facts out of the policy debate? Anarchy, nihilism, chaos — just the sort of conditions aspiring demagogues and oligarchs feed off — and get phat while doing it?
City of the dead, part two
If global governments were alive to the nature of the climate, energy and water emergencies upon us, they’d be frantically busy planning how to sensibly and humanely repopulate the countryside and depopulate the cities…
Segregation, block by block
If you are interested in affordable housing, housing equity, environmental justice, reduction of carbon emissions, adequate public transit, or streets that are safe for walking and cycling, Arbitrary Lines is an excellent resource…
Acceleration forever? The increasing momentum of mineral extraction
It is hard for most people to imagine the vast increases in the rate of consumption of practically everything that makes modern life possible. Resources appear without most of us ever thinking about how or whether the rising rates of consumption can be sustained.
Journey to resilience
I came to the topic of Peak Oil in 2005 at a workshop given by Richard Heinberg in Palo Alto. The information had a profound affect on how I would view the future going forward.
Skyrocketing Population and Carbon Dioxide: Watershed Moments Wrap-up (Episode 63 of Crazy Town)
The astute listener will recognize the trends in population and greenhouse gas emissions over the course of our chronologically arranged episodes on watershed moments in history.
The ride of our lives
When have we ever truly steered our path as a species? Are we actually in control at all?
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 5 July 2022
Headlines for the week of June 27 – July 3
Light posting from 30 June through 11 July
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from Thursday, 30 June, through Friday 8 July. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 11 July.
Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster (Episode 62 of Crazy Town)
Now that online shopping and the technology supporting it have ramped up commercialization and supercharged consumerism, we’re facing existential crises.
Standing at the edge of change
The world’s population of humans stands at the edge of rapid change and the future appears unimaginable.
