Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– White House, GOP Battle for Supremacy on Tar Sands Pipeline
– Interview with peak oil journalist and novelist Kurt Cobb
– Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks
– In conversation with peak oil pioneer Dr. Colin J Campbell (video)
– Steve LeVine’s Oil and the Glory: End-of-year edition
Richard Heinberg joins James Howard Kunstler, Nicole Foss, Dmitri Orlov and Noam Chomsky in a panel discussion. Reviewer: “These extraordinary clearseers analyse precisely the catastrophic crises which — amongst many other things — are bringing on the steady, relentless collapse of the US empire. “
The second basic debate that consumes the world left is that between what I call “developmentalism” and what may be called the priority of civilizational change. We can observe this debate in many parts of the world. One sees it in Latin America in the ongoing and quite angry debates between left governments and movements of indigenous peoples – for example, in Bolivia, in Ecuador, in Venezuela. One sees it in North America and in Europe in debates between environmentalists/Greens and the trade-unions which give priority to retaining and expanding available employment.
