The Energy Bulletin 16 May 2022
Headlines for the week of May 9-13
AMLO, Rousseau, and Social Power
Every day more Mexicans discover that what we are experiencing today, not only in the country but on the entire planet, is a colossal battle between life and death. In short, social power keeps moving forward!
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 79 Stacy Mitchell
Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The Energy/Food Crisis Is Far Worse than Most Americans Realize
Instead of prioritizing growth, we must aim for rapid reduction in overall energy usage, with an emphasis on equity—both equity between the rich and poor within nations and globally.
Making things that last again
Rather than everyone becoming individual survivalists, we would be better served by restoring some of this basic infrastructure to once more create things that last.
Just a hint from the mainstream that limits precipitate rising oil prices
An analysis in Bloomberg points to a key and obvious cause of today’s high prices for oil and other commodities: There isn’t enough of them to go around.
Just… Stop…
To effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.
Can ‘Cathonomics’ produce a just and sustainable world?
Tony Annett’s new book, Cathonomics, argues that our economy has become deadly to many people, precisely because it so often defeats our efforts to work for a common good. He also offers an alternative framework, grounded in the spiritual principles of Catholic social teaching.
The climate security agenda is more about strengthening military power than tackling climate instability
On the surface, the military taking climate change seriously sounds like a positive thing, but when you look deeper at their strategies it’s clear that it is mainly about strengthening military power rather than stopping worsening climate change.
In times of climate crisis, the future is a territory to defend
We can regenerate the life systems to which our future is linked. But change must be at the root. Because after every crisis, we don’t want to return to normality, we want to return to the earth.
Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crises
As the Ukraine-Russia war continues, a special plenary session would bring together a broad range of critical actors in the global food system to advance integrated solutions to protect the food security of the most vulnerable.
India and Pakistan are baking, and every powerful institution is to blame
As climate change worsens and world governments continue business as usual, there will inevitably be massive resistance movements in South Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. Those of us in the North owe them our solidarity.
