Economics – Dec 15
Oil producers shun dollar
Globalisation, the $ and Saudi Arabia
The great wealth transfer
Top-level insiders selling their stock
A loan that’ll get ugly fast
Is deflation possible in the U.S.?
Year: 2006
Population and the Sixth Great Extinction
Flying blind to the brink of extinction
The impending mass extinction & how to stop it
Complex marine systems evolved after mass extinction of earth species
Evangelicals on extinction
Nine billion or bust!
Population: Apocalypse now
China’s water shortage a population problem
(One part of) A unified climate/energy agenda
How can green groups unify their message on climate/energy? What kind of agenda could they all get behind?
Nawida 2150
A final narrative exploration of life in a deindustrial future, fifty more years and several rounds of planetary change after “Solstice 2100.”
Biofuels – Dec 13
Biodevastation, hunger & false carbon credits
Biofuels seen as a luxury China cannot afford
Sun worship – advantages of biomass
South Africa: Biofuels ‘could drive up staple food price’
Pope calls energy alternatives a source of peace
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown
A small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth.
Russia – Dec 13
Russia gets tough on energy sales to Europe
U.S. senator urges use of NATO defense clause for energy
The KGB’S great power-grab
$20bn gas project seized by Russia
Climate policy – Dec 13
Penalties of acting alone stall effort on climate change
Business & the the cost of an overheated planet
Climate change catching voter attention
Wall Street eyes heart of darkness: global warming
Peak oil – Dec 13
Coming soon – Escape from Suburbia!
Review – New Peak Oil Film “Crude Impact”
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Elephants and quagmires: PO & the Bush denial
The foundations of peak-oil doomerism
Oil and Iraq – Dec 13
PSAs and Iraqi oil
ISG report: Has the Empire really failed?
The Baker Boys: stay half the course
Exxon’s energy outlook – Dec 13
“By 2030, energy demand will increase by about 60% compared to 2000. …The global energy mix will look very similar 25 years from now. Oil, gas and coal will be predominant. Resources are adequate to support global demand growth.”
