Consumption & Demand

India, China and Copenhagen

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India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has released a quick set of five studies to support the Indian government’s claim that it can quickly grow its economy without destabilising emissions negotiations. The intention is clearly to take a ‘scientific’ stand at the Copenhagen meeting in December to project the central government objective of steady GDP growth. Although India’s climate arguments versus the west are allied with China’s, the People’s Republic has publicly been more diplomatic.

Nations & resources – Sept 3

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-World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
-Ukraine, Russia PMs resolve gas dispute: Tymoshenko
-As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms
-Iranian Media: Iran Ready to Negotiate
-Slow Boat to Rare Earth
-Peak Water
-Iowa’s future shouldn’t depend on fossil fuels

Whack!

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The next case of $120 oil, assuming we get there before the industrial economy falls into the abyss, will be brutal for an already over-stretched American consumer. Banks are falling like dominoes on a mule cart over the bumpy terrain of declining energy supplies. When will the lights go out?

Sacred Shrines and Skinny Chickens

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In the world of climate policy, the argument has been shifting. It used to be between a few global warming Cassandras and hoards of global warming deniers, and that arguing got, well, pretty heated. The deniers long ago lost their argument to the hard science of the matter, so the debate has boiled down to the preventionists versus the mitigators.