Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Much of the rhetoric of today’s faith in progress focuses on the distinction between current scientific modes of thought and the magical thinking of other societies. The distinction is real, but Peak Oil points up unexpected roles played by both kinds of thinking in the predicament of industrial society.
Applying the precautionary principle to the economy misses the point. Environmental regulation may indeed retard economic activity. But that damage, if it occurs, is different in kind from the damage our technology and numbers inflict on the biosphere every day. One may lead to a transient loss of wealth; the other may lead to a colossal loss of human life and of the very civilization we have built.
Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash
Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants
Escape from America
Modern healthcare is dependent upon enormous inputs of energy and an array of petroleum-derived products. Nevertheless, there is silence and inaction regarding the threats posed by the end of the fossil fuel era,
Homer-Dixon interview: crash inevitable?
Chat with Dmitry Orlov
Post-petroleum stress disorder on the Archers
THE Progressive crises: global warming and PO
Hybrids, biofuels and other false idols
The Giant Sucking Sound, Revisited
Let Us Be Human: Peak Oil
CERA Report outlines energy scenarios
Change required in Madison
Love miles (Sharon Astyk on air travel)
Drop in gas use is decades away: automakers
In Congress, a shift over fuel economy
Swiss Greens attack four-wheel drives
Gas prices are going up again
David Suzuki interview
Transforming L.A. into a sustainable city
Green movement grows in Texas suburbs
Developing nations to test new $150 laptops
Uganda: Giving free bulbs
An Islamic view: ‘Rampant’ society upsets natural order
David Korten interview
Living in a state of exponential delusion
Marxism and the ecology of destruction
We’re going to be in completely new situations which we’ve never encountered before and the ways of the past are not really appropriate.
If leaders do not begin to abide by these axioms, society as a whole, or some aspects of it, will assuredly collapse.
Chavez takes up energy conservation
Turkey: It’s “you” who will save the world
War and skis
Arabs urged to use energy judiciously
No quick fix to Eskom energy crisis
