A suit for the emperor
In a recent iconoclastic talk at the University of Bristol, a leading British climate scientist invoked the lad in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of the emperor’s new clothes.
Year: 2012
The Daly-Correa tax: background and explanation
How might OPEC fit into the emerging vision of sustainable development? Permit me to speculate.
Without growth
In Extraenvironmentalist #53 we speak with Peter Victor about his book Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster …Then, we speak with Dave Gardner [85m] about how he’s built a dialogue on the diminishing returns of economic growth with his film Growthbusters…
Oil – Nov 26
•The IEA announces the decline of a number of major oil producing countries •Oil Watch – OPEC Crude Oil Production (IEA) •Offshore Oil-Drilling Primer for Concerned People of All Ages [new textbook’s chapter]
A global treaty on rivers: Key to true water security
No broad-based international agreement on sharing rivers currently exists, even though much of the world depends on water from rivers that flow through more than one nation. But that may be about to change, as two separate global river treaties are close to being approved.
If you’re not doing politics, you’re not doing enough
If you look closely, you’ll see that local government is not just something you need to get around and that you don’t, in fact, have to fight City Hall. Indeed, City Hall may be just waiting for you to walk through the front door and take your place as an active citizen.
Becoming one of “them”
So how do you navigate that sense of loss, the trauma of changed expectations, the sense that all the things that you once believed you had a right to are now things you are a supplicant for?
Review: The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy
What I love most about this book is the feeling you get that there is hope: solutions to environmental, social and financial crises do exist, they have been tried and tested all over the planet and all we have to do is get on with it.
Struggles, new and old, emerge in Sandy’s wake
A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck, battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City’s shores.
Land, and the army marching to claim it, in the UK and around the world
The right to access land matters, in a fundamental way. It is a place to live, a source for food, for water, for fuel, and for sustenance of almost every kind.
Peak oil review – Nov 26
A weekly update, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Middle East
-Tight oil
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
How the myth of fossil fuel abundance actually impedes progress on climate change
The great fear among those working to address climate change is that the seemingly vast resources of fossil fuels waiting to be burned will send the world hurtling toward certain catastrophe. By invoking fossil fuel abundance, climate activists believe that their argument for a rapid transition to alternative energy is made more persuasive. But, it is poor strategy to reinforce the myth of fossil fuel abundance when doing so actually makes many people less open to such an argument. And, as it turns out, the abundance argument is also contrary to the available data, logic and prudent risk management principles.
