Science fiction, thrillers and fairy tales – Nov 19
Bruce Sterling post-peak short story
Brian Aldiss: Our science fiction fate
Rumpeltstiltskin updated
The Shell Game preview
Culture & Behavior
United Nations and climate change – Nov 18
UN: emissions growth must end in 7 years
UN report describes risks of inaction
A last warning on global warming
UN chief seeks more climate leadership
UN scientists urge carbon tax
UN issues dire report; effects on Swiss
Peak fun (and the inevitable hangover)
When you are at the peak of the biggest party ever thrown in history, the fossil-fuel party, who worries about the hangover?
Climate – Nov 17
A question no one wants to raise about drought
Economist Cline says developing nations to suffer most from climate’s effects
N. American flora can’t absorb continent’s greenhouse gases
CSM’s climate summary
Governors create regional climate pacts
The familiarity of an idea
Cloth toilet paper and peak oil… There are some ideas you run into once and immediately say “Why didn’t I think of that” and implement it in your own life, but there are many other things where the first time you confront an idea, you can’t do much more than file it away as a weird factoid. Without context and familiarity, it is just too hard and too strange.
Fascism, feudalism, and the future
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
Sustainable China – Nov 15
A maverick’s “ecological civilization” goes mainstream
All the world must tackle the fallout of China’s growth
China bites the fuel price bullet
Economic and planetary collapse: Is it a therapeutic issue?
If we call those pessimistic about the future “Doomers,” what do we call those who are blindly and enthusiastically optimistic? We might call such optimism a “Panglossian Disorder” and the Peak Shrink suggest that it is a tough, culturally ubiquitous disorder to treat.
Come gather round cities – Nov 14
UK’s towns on ‘the road to enlightenment’
Chicago takes a shine to Portland
Wales: How green is my valley?
Post-carbon cities and the future of growth
An inconvenient assessment
Seven years ago, scientists published a pioneering study to help Americans understand the implications change. Here’s why you’ve never heard of it. (Excerpts)
Wanted: a new global paradigm
The destructive search for military control amid acute environmental constraint highlights the prescience of pioneering work on global sustainability. (The Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth )
Deep thought – Nov 11
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
