Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
By Stan Cox, Priti Gulati Cox, Tom Dispatch
The true burden of a massive battery in an electric car or truck will be borne not just by the vehicle’s suspension system, but by the people and ecosystems unlucky enough to be in or near the global supply chain that will produce it.
From Popovers to Popunders: The Kind of Decarbonization That Can Succeed
By Stan Cox, Priti Gulati Cox, Resilience.org
A downsizing economy will require a smaller and smaller energy supply; in time, energy demand will become modest enough that it can be fully satisfied with renewable sources, sustainably deployed.
The gritty reality of solar power
By Stan Cox, Priti Gulati Cox, Resilience.org
Affluent societies worldwide will need to adapt to life with a much smaller and much more equitably shared energy supply; otherwise, we will keep extending our plunder of the Earth, jogging along on the same old ecologically destructive industrial treadmill.
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner
By Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox, Resilience.org
Increases in GDP and CO2 over the past three decades have had one easily identifiable cause in common: the reluctance of governments to curb the carbon emissions of the world’s largest economies for fear of slowing the growth of their own GDP.