Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
By the time we were finished [with the interview], I felt that I’d lent myself to a subject about something I really know very little about – that is, preparing for a hypothetical crisis that may come someday. What I actually am starting (and I’m still just starting) to know something about is living in such a way that I’m somewhat insulated (not perfectly) from a whole host of scenarios.
As industrial society moves deeper into a time of crisis, the likelihood of drastic change rises. Still, even the most dramatic changes take on a different shape from the perspective of those present at the time. How will these differences affect our plans for a post-peak future?
Steve LeVine: After Georgia, a day of reckoning for Washington
Jerome a Paris: Why is the “West” so bad at strategy?
Kunstler: Reality bites again
Patrick Buchanan: Who started Cold War II?
Bicycle inspiration. The following photos were taken at train stations around the world. Also: “If You Have Biker’s Block.”
The oxygen crisis
Suffocating dead zones spread across world’s oceans
“Green” land grab could sow seeds of new conflict
Psychologists determine what it means to think ‘green’
Are we science-savvy enough to make informed decisions?
AP’s ethnography of news consumption
How anti-intellectualism is destroying America
Brave New America (inverted totalitarianism)
Downtowns across the U.S. see streetcars in their future
Think flying stinks? It may get worse
Green fuel for the airline industry?
France’s August traffic jam
Humankind has control issues, and they’re about to get a lot worse.
My friends and I see this shift as a good thing – youth leading the way toward decisions that could result in more livable communities, better health, lower emissions and less fossil fuel dependency.
How adaptable are we? … Our most pressing problem is the abrogation of parental responsibilities and the tacit usurping of those responsibilities by an entity that is far from benign.
Population Bomb Author’s fix for next extinction: educate women
Peak population
Social Scientists Seek Answer To Exploding Population
The other day Andrew C. Revkin wrote, “Only direct experience seems to trigger change.” By that he meant disasters, deaths, destruction, home loss, looming gas prices, … imminent experiences that make you change your lifestyle right now because you have no other choice. I have no other way of saying this other than that really sucks. Let’s prove him wrong. Let’s change our lifestyles before things get awful. Now.
