Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
John Michael Greer is quite correct that historically humans have met resource declines with struggles to adapt, and that these efforts have changed the dynamics of the decline. But I think he is too dismissive of those who worry about a rapid, steep decline.
Before cyclone hit, Burmese delta was stripped of protective trees
Economic risks from species loss
For the love of trees: watershed protection
Conservationists make most of real estate crisis
Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi Paradox
Gin, television and social surplus
12-Stepping our way to Armageddon
Peak oil task force for Bellingham, Wash.
‘Peak oil’ is here. Now what? (R.I.)
Dream of cohesive Cascadia never dies
C.I.A. chief lists population as a top concern
Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise
The Population Bomb revisited
More choice for women means more sustainability
San Francisco committed to recycling, ready for more
A woman, a village and a war on plastic bags
Junkie nation: U.S. selling its scrap
With crude oil now above $120 a barrel and threatening to go higher, it is clear that our preferred and convenient means of going places, our car, the airplane and the rental car soon are going to be parked because they will be too expensive to operate.
As the age of cheap abundant energy comes to its end, making meaningful plans for the future depends on a vision of the future we can expect. Many of the supposed answers to the challenge of peak oil, however, have been proposed in response to many other crises, real and imaginary. How much of our thinking about the future is defined by the attempt to find plausible problems for culturally favored solutions to solve?
BBC: Do you need to stock up the bunker?
Natural born survivors
Why are the mean girls picking on World Made By Hand?
1. We became aware of the extent to which our present lifestyle is deeply dependent on non-renewable fossil fuels and that these will run out.
2. We came to believe that only by giving up fossil fuels and all the modes that require them, do we have the chance of long term sustainable survival and eventually to thrive in harmony with nature.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Your private air travel options are growing
Airlines reducing speeds to save fuel
Officials overestimate growth in vehicle travel
