Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Tom Whipple Within the next ten years the size, shape, efficiency, fuel and numbers of private automobiles is going to undergo a radical change. The nine million gallons of gasoline we currently use in the U.S. each day simply will not be available in the quantities desired at any price.
What is wrong about allowing money to “grow” as if it were a real thing? Answer: Real things grow, mature and die. Pretend money grows and grows every second of every hour of every day and night. Pretend money therefore tends to overwhelm the growth rate of real resources.
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Global warming will lead to crop losses
World Economic Forum report warns of food shortage
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
The discussion at The Oil Drum takes a more personal nature with me; much of my own history involves looking back toward a simpler time in agriculture. (The account of a “recovering energy engineer.”)
Top chefs on avoiding food waste
Price freezes squeeze Chinese farmers
Eco-Farm: California dreaming
Meat is a climate crime = more industrialized farming?
Agriculture is changing the chemistry of the Mississippi River
If abortion were put into the context of the long history of human attempts to avoid starvation by regulating population growth, we might come to a different conclusion about what “pro-life” really means.
Monbiot: Population growth pales against greed of the rich
The truth everyone knows, but no one says
Background on population and sustainability
Heavy footprint weighs down U.S. empire
Why Cape Breton shakes in the echo of this distant boom (tarsands)
The energy efficiency option
Four provinces unite in emissions fight, trumping Harper’s blueprint
Climate plans by New York, Florida prod U.S
Cap and trade: THE economic fairness issue
China weather chaos a sign of things to come
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
Many environmentalists and so-called “progressives” cling to dangerously naive beliefs about how to solve America’s liquid fuels problem.
