Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Tom Whipple At the minute, the oil and other commodity markets seem seized with the notion that a rip-roaring, world engulfing depression is on the way that will demolish oil consumption. People are actually starting to talk about oil falling all the way to $20 a barrel again. Is this likely or even remotely possible?
Staying home as a necessity and a right
Progettazione per zone e settori in ambiente urbano
Creating a Post-Peak Future Worth Living Into
Horticultural Consciousness: Hemenway interview #2
The end of the road for U.S. carmakers?
Lessons learned from the 1932-1933 Presidential transition
Kunstler: Easthampton burning?
Impact of economic crisis on power investments
Connecting the oily dots of the economic meltdown
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is angry
The REAL maverick: Present economy worse than Depression
Taleb on Black Swans
Prophet of boom and doom
The nationalization of healthcare is the most likely outcome of the phenomena of Bad Money and The Bottleneck. Other possibilities are a severe degradation of the healthcare system or its bifurcation on the basis of ability to pay, which will reflect an unstable democratic society and possibly contribute to civic unrest and conflict.
Oil production predicted to decline within 5 years (new)
UK taskforce – peak oil will arrive much earlier than expected
Randy Udall: Peak oil and its effect on climate change
World is `drowning in oil’ (again) after drought
You’re wrong, PM. We need higher oil prices
Will the UK Face a Natural Gas Crisis this Winter?
UK industries to be forced to cut CO2 emissions
Carbon footprint standard for all products drawn up by Government
Time to build a new civilization
The temples of doom
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
The Financial Times has leaked the results of the International Energy Agency’s long-awaited study of the depletion profiles of the world’s 400 largest oilfields, indicating that, “Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent.”
Financial Times leaks IEA report
Watchdog (IEA) warns on declining oilfield output
IEA denies oil output falling at faster rate
Jeremy Leggett on UK report
Falling oil production ‘is greater threat to Britain than terrorism’
Taskforce: Oil production predicted to decline within 5 years
Leggett interview on oil report
Putin suggests Russia, China ditch dollar in trade deals
Russia’s oil boom: Miracle or mirage?
China sets price for cooperation on climate change
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
Thoreau Is Rediscovered as a Climatologist
Elliot Diringer at Pew on Copenhagen climate negotiations (audio)
