Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Peter Pogany It is clear that the current generation will have to adapt to an oil-constrained world. Wouldn’t you expect to see the best and brightest of the economics profession analyzing, passionately arguing, advising national governments and international organizations, never letting the sense of urgency recede from public consciousness?
The world wants more food – a lot more food – but the planet will not be able to provide it. A groundbreaking United Nations report was released last week that presents an alternative paradigm for agriculture – at a very timely moment.
Crude tops $119; Saudi Arabia pledges $90 billion to lift supply
Ineos refinery strike could shut-in 700,000 bpd of North Sea crude oil – BP
Producers, consumers lock horns over prices
Why oil could hit $180 a barrel
Big issue is investment, not reserves-Naimi
Biofuels starving our people – South American leaders
WSJ: When neighbors become farmers
Many Wisconsin dairy farmers switch to grazing
Rep. Bartlett: This Earth Day is different
Yale’s Gus Speth calls for shift from consumer capitalism to solve environmental woes
US life expectancy falls for large segment of population
WSJ: Saudis face hurdle in new oil drilling
Peak Oil? Saudis squeeze the stone even harder
Naimi: Unqualified experts create fear in market
Shell’s chief strategist says 2015
Peak oil crisis interview
Krugman struggles with Limits to Growth
The answer might as well be yes. Their smallish medium-term growth possibilities are well-delineated. Longer term growth will require levels of investment that are not likely to to be forthcoming in time.
Reassurances that the energy economy will return to normal sometime soon miss a crucial detail – for the last century or so, the role of energy in the industrial world has been anything but normal. Just how distorted has the age of cheap abundant energy left our expectations and assumptions?
Fossil fuel industry at Australia’s 2020 confernce
Nigel Lawson loses no sleep over global warming
Seeing China’s climate emissions clearly
Green issue of NY Times Magazine
Cuban permaculturalist visits Australia
Seattle’s Local Food Action Initiative a cure for society’s ills?
Life (mostly) off the grid
Ontario set to veto ban on clotheslines
Interview with Joanna Macy
Michael Pollan: Why bother?
Jeffrey Sachs: Economics for a crowded planet
If Rudd believes that the Summit succeeded in identifying the greatest and most immediate threat to Australia’s future – and provided him with ideas for response – then he is just plain wrong. Distressingly, there are strong hints that the summit topics – and the people who discussed them – were chosen with the aim of avoiding the contentious issues and, in particular, peak oil.
