Norway’s oil deals helped empower Putin. It must learn from its mistakes
We believe that Europe enabled Russia’s descent into fascism. Norway, too, played a role in this.
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With U.S. shale oil boom over, can world production climb?
World growth in oil supplies will have to come from someplace other than the United States. Will there be a new oil production savior?
Finite Feeding Frenzy
Sure, Malthus missed predicting this enormous surge in human population, not factoring in stored fossil energy. That doesn’t mean we should declare human population a mystery beyond our grasp and refrain from any attempt to understand its trajectory and future.
Why Africa signed up for eight new fossil fuel projects at COP27
Africa is at a crossroads in how its constituent countries develop and build their economies. What happens next isn’t just about the future of carbon emissions, but the future of African communities.
COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong
So why did COP27 fail? And what can be done before the next summit – COP28 in Dubai – to ensure progress?
Patrick Ophuls: “Energy, Politics, and The Future”
Today, ecologist, political scientist, and author Patrick Ophuls joins Nate to discuss his new book, The Tragedy of Industrial Civilization and The Future of Politics.
Doing development differently: How Kenya is rapidly emerging as Africa’s renewable energy superpower
In 2021, 81% of Kenya’s electricity generation came from the low carbon sources of geothermal, hydro, wind, and solar power.
Why Economic Models Neglect Energy, and Why That’s a Problem
As the Fed raises interest rates to fight inflation, the economic models they use include energy as a small part of the overall picture. Is that model flawed?
“The Oil Machine” and the Changing Climate
Released smartly in time for the COP27 climate change conference, the film “The Oil Machine”, presents a stark picture of the imperative to cut our use of fossil fuels, in particular crude oil, but moreover of our utter dependency on the “black gold” for practically all aspects of modern civilization.
The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
We need a realistic plan for energy descent, instead of foolish dreams of eternal consumer abundance by means other than fossil fuels.
Future Heat Wave?
either attention to climate change will leave all else in the dust or climate change itself will leave us all in the dust, and how truly sad that would be!
Getting out of the food-energy-climate crisis
Finding a way out of this “polycrisis” requires a deep transformation in how energy and food are produced and distributed, with actions that challenge corporate control head on.
