Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The US Presidential campaign in which the issue of climate change has been avoided for the first time since 1988 got a last minute shake-up this week as the Northeastern seaboard was hit by superstorm Sandy. The storm which also hit the Caribbean and Canada, might just end up forcing the climate issue back onto the political agenda.
-Sandy: Haiti fears food shortages after hurricane
-It’s global warming, stupid
-Hurricane Sandy: why have the British media ignored Caribbean victims?
-Hurricane Sandy’s effect on Caribbean (photos)
Here in Manchester, like other cities across the UK, individuals and groups are getting serious about the environmental and social impacts of our food and organising in new and enterprising ways to challenge the economic might of supermarkets and agri-business.
Given emerging data in 2012, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the post-war automobile era in the United States is now in well-articulated decline. Accordingly, it makes sense to note the beginning of a long-term supertrend that is just getting started: the resurrection of America’s rail system.
It is easy to lapse into cynicism when the world is so royally messed up and fortified against serious reform.
It is my premise (and surmise) that “The skills had always run the kingdom but had never held the throne” – until oil power removed tools from the dexterity of the skilled and handed them to the unskilled powers — leading to the environmental/economic catastrophe which now faces us.
So to say "we must adapt to some climate change" is not at all to imply "so we might as well give up the struggle".
When I first came to Rome as a student, in the fall of 2009, I saw few bikes on the streets.
A mid weekly update.
Liam and myself started working on Energy Bulletin in Melbourne in 2003. I was a web geek, and Liam one of the only people I knew who was aware of peak oil. We chose a neutral name and design because the style and tone of peak oil on the web at the time was often not unlike that of conspiracy theory websites, and very ‘doomer’ oriented, even if the content was solid enough.
This final part of a five-part series uses the tools of narrative fiction to explore some of the ways in which America’s global empire might come apart. The crisis of legitimacy driven by the nation’s cascading military political and economic failures finally takes shape in political action. Amid the tramp of marching feet and the echoing slogans, the one question left is whether anything can still be salvaged from the American experiment.
Although there were still cosmos and California poppy flowering in the gardens, winter had put his bony leafless hand on the pot and suddenly we were all thinking Roots.
