The Energy Bulletin Weekly 12 July 2021
Prices fell last week for the first time since May after days of volatile trading in the wake of OPEC+’s stalemate over a production increase.
Tom Whipple
Six Choice Metaphors to Unfold Economics
Human ecology opens us beyond a reductive view. We are part of understanding; our regard is from ‘inside,’ not as ‘outside’ observers.
On the Existence of A Man
Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred.
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos
Everyone can and will find their own way of coping or even thriving within a new context. That context will include disruption to our lives, much less certainty about the future, and less acceptance of current societal norms.
Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy
The threat of climate change is too grave for us to continue thinking that we can work our way around it without major (revolutionary) changes that will radically alter the very social fabric beyond capitalism and statecraft.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 6 July 2021
Futures posted their sixth straight weekly gain, the longest winning streak since December, as the standoff between OPEC+ ministers over output dragged on.
Least worst politics
Instead of the ‘best of all possible worlds’, then, the responsibility is to identify the ‘least bad of all likely worlds’ and the ways it may be realized.
On the Existence of Independence
It is Independence Day. This is the worst holiday ever created. Even if you leave out the explosions.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 47 Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The Ideology of Human Supremacy
The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces.
The promise of restoration lives within us
When you put these examples of cultural revival, land restoration, and community healing together, it shows us that restoration is not so much about “finally making peace with nature”, as it is about finally making peace with our cultural past.
A revolution of the imagination
The function of imagination is to bring “longing into the world”—I’d say that what this does is to create a narrative gap that we are then moved to fill.
