Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change
In sum, the energy transition right now is powered, in many places, by appalling destruction and poisoning in the extraction of raw materials. It does not have to be that way.
Jonathan Neale
Here’s a Civil Notion: Save the RINOs for the Sake of Democracy and the Environment
Without at least some bipartisan backing, the on-again/off-again climate policy cycle will continue. Absent collaboration today, the future transition to a low-carbon economy will be desperate rather than measured.
Can big science be sustained?
We can’t know for sure, of course, whether the climate cataclysm will destroy scientific knowledge. But what we can see is that we are on a so-far unwavering path to climate catastrophe…
Practising place-fullness
What is place? Recently, it has sparked for me a reflection on something I’ve been calling “place-fullness”.
Appalachian Fracking Boom Was a Jobs Bust, Finds New Report
The decade-long fracking boom in Appalachia has not led to significant job growth, and despite the region’s extraordinary levels of natural gas production, the industry’s promise of prosperity has “turned into almost nothing,” according to a new report.
India’s farmers’ protests are about more than reform — they are resisting the corporate takeover of agriculture
Hundreds of thousands of farmers have been rallying against three new laws that have thrown open the agriculture sector to private players.
From Russia To Love: Engaging with Chris Newman on the small family farm
Continuing my theme concerning peasant farming in this blog cycle about my book A Small Farm Future, the general focus of this post is how and why revived neo-peasantries might help meet present global challenges.
Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way
At its most distilled, “degrowth” refers to a process of reducing the material impact of the economy on the world’s many imperiled ecologies, abandoning GDP as a measurement of well-being, and forging an equitable steady-state economy.
Parents for a future!: Excerpt
What is the nub of my case for how we can tackle this? We need to become parents of the future. How do we do that? By taking the metaphor literally.
Interrogating the Anthropocene: Truth and Fallacy
The Anthropocene concept advances the stunning proposition that human activity has catapulted Earth out of the relatively benign Holocene into a hostile new geological epoch.
Why make time to feel when there is a world to save?
Because there will be no saving of worlds if we are not feeling them first. And it is by loving all life, no matter what, that a more beautiful world already exists.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 16 February 2021
Prices in London climbed for a fourth straight week as efforts to clear an oil surplus are supporting oil prices until demand comes back to pre-pandemic levels.
