Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Common Dreams, Le Monde Diplomatique, Oilprice.com, OilVoice, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
The toxic legacy of fracking is now making itself visible in our drinking water. Expect many more stories of contamination in the coming years.
September 24, 2023
The critical importance of water transportation is coming into focus as lack of water cripples river and canal navigation.
September 10, 2023
The world’s regulators are running way behind in trying to evaluate and regulate the toxic chemicals in our environment. That’s a feature, not a bug in our regulatory systems
September 3, 2023
The fantasy that the world economy is going to switch seamlessly to hydrogen energy keeps recurring. The latest iteration is ‘white hydrogen.’
August 20, 2023
As scarcity increasingly becomes an issue for many key resources, the call for government intervention is rising. That’s because the marketplace is failing in the face of scarcity brought on by geological limits and climate change.
August 13, 2023
The airwaves and internet are filled with “solutions” each day to the myriad interlocking environmental and resource limits humanity faces. A very tiny number call for extraordinary reductions in consumption. The rest aren’t solutions at all.
August 6, 2023
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