Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
‘Limits to Growth’ was criticised for predicting that oil would run out and for being wrong in that prediction. However, oil depletion is not mentioned once in the original 1972 report, this is a completely bogus criticism.
“The four Transition periods (T1, T2, T3, and T4) will roughly span the 2006-2020 era. …The major palpable difference between the four Ts is their respective gradient of oil output decline — very small for T1, perceptible for T2, remarkable in T3, and rather steep for T4. In fact, this gradation in decline is a genuine blessing for those having to cope and adapt.”
– Dr. A.M.S. Bakhtiari, Iranian oil expert
– Radical changes in global tourism coming
– Labour plays the green card
– Carbon trading good for Aussie business?
– Weather Channel, Afro-Americans and
climate change
– In praise of zealous nuts
– Permaculture – permanent agriculture
– NPR: eating local, thinking global
– My low-carbon diet
– “Sustainable well-being” – theme of
2007 AAAS conference
– Bracks urged to think ahead as ‘oil runs out’
– Bush’s first energy rule: efficient enough?
– Crumbling U.S. infrastructure
I’m a psychologist, I’m not a geologist, financial expert, political analyst or economist. Yet, my world was dramatically changed when I learned about Peak Oil and began to read about all the related issues.
– Inside Iran’s nuclear machine: what makes
them tick?
– Iran-China transactions up USD253m
– Iran’s oil output up
– IEA looks to Opec to boost oil production
if Iran cuts
– US vs. Iran: Is an attack inevitable?
– Ex-official explains Iran’s wariness
– Ukraine won’t siphon Russian gas – PM
– Energy is focus for Chavez in China
– Russia spins global energy spider’s web
– Moscow making Central Asia its own
A joint interview with Matt Simmons and Jim Kunstler, conducted just after they had met for the first time in November last year. Remarkably – even though both men came from vastly different backgrounds – they had basically reached the same conclusions regarding Peak Oil.
– For sale: pollution – a good idea?
– McKibben: fired up over global warming
– Report: 6 Steps to beat global warming
– Colorado joins effort to fight global warming
– Calif. to act on its own on global warming
– Climate change shifting European seasons
– Cascades’ reddened forests
– Risky business (insurers & climate change)
– Air con is ruining our environment
– Lappé: a right to food?
– Biofuels may strain U.N. goal to end hunger
– I was a student dumpster-diver
– The shocking truth about bread
