The Politics of Peak Oil and Fascism
At the recent “Peak Oil UK” conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, one attendee stood out from the usual peak oil crowd: Nick Griffin, chairman of the far-right British National Party.
Activism
Richard Heinberg on megaprojects update
Can the world’s new oil projects match demand? Richard Heinberg comments on Skrebowski’s latest Oilfields Megaprojects Report and its implications for local and global security (or lack of it) and discusses the need for relocalization.
Forum for UK “Peak Oil” Awareness & Discussion Launched
UK oil depletion awareness organisation PowerSwitch.org.uk officially launches free forum for people concerned about the imminent peak in global oil production and the consequences for the UK to meet, talk and work locally to raise awareness.
Friedman Fighter
Interview with New York Times columnist and “geo-green” advocate Thomas Friedman
An uphill bike ride ahead for green party
The New Zealand Green Party in anticipation on an election this year, is beginning to prepare by advertising on billboards throughout the country about Peak Oil.
Hawks, hippies and the holy unite to turn America green
Between them, the Christian and neocon right, the enviro-left, and the mullahs of the Middle East may finally achieve what a young Thatcherite once dreamt of. The geo-neocon-green movement may have arrived. Just in time.
Natural Gas and the future of Arab Cooperation
Report from a regional thinktank, concluding that exporting natural gas is not the best strategic option for the Arab World.
The Great Phase Transition: The Post-oil Era
Jorge Figueiredo argues that Peak Oil will exacerbate a crisis in capitalism, and the as yet unwritten result could either be fascistic or ‘revolutionary’.
Going Geo-Green
So where are the Democratic voices linking energy conservation and national security? With awareness of Peak Oil rising along with prices at the pump, it’s time for Democrats to make it clear they are leading the charge for the geo-green strategy.
Energy insanity
Just when you thought it was impossible, Cheney energy schemes get even worse
Activists and hipsters without territory or a plan
There exists today almost no social movement of a kind that leads human industrial society into a new, safe direction. This may be because (1) the anti-war movement, for example, offers little to the public in terms of a vision of sustainable living, and (2) the likely participants and leaders of a vanguard have no territory.
Geo-Greening by Example
Imagine if George Bush declared that he was getting rid of his limousine for an armor-plated Ford Escape hybrid, adopting a geo-green strategy and building an alliance of neocons, evangelicals and greens to sustain it.
