Why governments are blind to fossil fuel energy risk
Having courted economic Armageddon in the financial sector, might we be capable of repeating the trick in the energy sector?
My answer is a resounding yes. We are doing so. On multiple fronts.
climate change
Major Study Projects No Long-Term Climate Benefit From Shale Gas Revolution
Most claims that shale gas will significantly reduce US carbon emissions in the future are based on little more than hand-waving and wishful thinking.
Smoking Kills, so does Climate Change
A translation of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers
The market for delusion on climate change
If we are, as neo-classical economists claim, “rational individuals” then you would think that all of us would put a lot of weight on the opinion of such a large number of scientists and the rigour of the process that is gone through.
Fossil Fuel Euphoria: Hallelujah! Oil and Gas Forever!
This movement from gloom about our energy future to what can only be called fossil-fuel euphoria may prove to be the hallmark of our peculiar moment.
Eric Swarts: Representing a New Generation of Emerging, Climate-Conscious Farmers in South Africa
“I want to be able to sleep at night. I want to know that the food I’m selling people is going to help their health, not make them sick.”
Why we need cooperative accumulation
Co-operative accumulation must be framed as one important means…to navigate the cascade of challenges flowing from the need to rapidly uncouple fossil fuels as our primary energy source.
Letter from America #1: New Orleans and reflections on “awesome”
Time spent here, and talking to people, gives a sense of just how powerful the forces of nature are, and how we tamper with them at our peril.
Think global, act local, globally
Think global, act local, globally. That’s got to be the next step for this broader movement…
Bigger than that: (The difficulty of) looking at climate change
Sometimes the fate of the Earth boils down to getting one person with modest powers to budge.
Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics & Community Resilience
In this provocative paper, PCI Executive Director Asher Miller and Transition Movement Founder (and PCI Fellow) Rob Hopkins make a convincing case for why the environmental community must embrace post-growth economics and community resilience in their efforts to address the climate crisis.
How to deflate the carbon bubble
The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union activists have formed a new alliance, and published a book on how to wean the country off oil.
