ODAC Newsletter Nov 16
The US as the new Saudi Arabia, energy insecurity for most of the rest of the world, and climate chaos for everyone – such were the headline points of the latest World Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency.
Year: 2012
Should Chiapas pay for California’s carbon?
We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas. “So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?”
Rolling Jubilee highlights the need for conversations on debt cancellation
Rolling Jubilee, a project of Occupy offshoot Strike Debt, has caused quite a stir online and in the media (see the Telegraph, Huffington Post, and Guardian).
IEA oil forecast unrealistically high; misses diminishing returns
The International Energy Agency (IEA) provides unrealistically high oil forecasts in its new 2012 World Energy Outlook (WEO). It claims, among other things, that the United States will become the world’s largest oil producer by 2020, and will become a net oil exporter by 2030.
Where infinite growth meets biophysical limit
To achieve a sustainable, steady-state economy, we’re going to have to limit matter-and-energy throughput in the economy to what the planet can sustainably give to us and what it can sustainably absorb from us.
UT motto modification: What Starts Here…Accelerates Destruction?
I want to suggest a slight modification of the University of Texas’ motto, “What starts here changes the world.” A more accurate slogan — while not quite as pithy and probably less effective for public-relations purposes — would be, “What starts here accelerates the destruction of the world.”
Some serious fracking exuberance in gay Paris
Good news, folks. According to our friends at the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United States will once again be the world’s top oil producing nation by 2020. In your face Russia and Saudi Arabia!
From endless growth to a new form of democracy
Humanity faces a momentous period of transition. Modern civilization is not only in crisis. It confronts a multiplicity of overlapping global crises that are potentially terminal.
The Making of a Hugelkultur Bed
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Gridlock in Europe
The latest twists and turns in the saga of the Greek debt crisis are signs that the brief honeymoon the Fund enjoyed in the wake of the “Great Recession” has ended.
Gay, gay, marrions-les
France is about to legalize gay marriage. This has caused some turmoil in some part of the opinion and the right wing opposition bitterly opposes it, mostly, I think, to show they are indeed the Opposition. Indeed, the very fact that a measure which concerns only 5% of the population has become, in the middle of a major economic crisis, one of the focuses of our collective conversation tells a lot about how impotent our rulers have become.
Kevin Anderson: What they won’t tell you about climate catastrophe
Scientists and officials are not telling the public the awful truth: we are hurtling toward catastrophic climate change.
