Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades climate change could cause drastic harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.
Strangely compelling video-art featuring a peak oil survivalist.
Absent from most of the discussions of the motives of peak oil “doomers” is the role that old myths in new clothes play in today’s culture. Can we think about the future at all without trying to impose mythology on it?
Commentary on the recent film.
Anywhere the eye can see, it’s likely to see an ad
Americans have personal bonds with cars
Is good weather bad for sustainable energy?
A religious faith in technological progress is a core obstacle to responding constructively to peak oil. Do we need to reconsider the concept?
Frances Moore Lappé: creating real prosperity
Independence from the corporate global economy
Economics of life in balance
Shifts in weather patterns over Indian and Pacific Oceans disrupt El Nino
EU: Climate to transform the face of the continent
Warming climate may prove costly for Washington state
Ground rules for saving the oceans
Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes
Climate change killed off dynasties in China, Mexico
Apocalypto: a movie review
Perhaps the most crucial argument to the peak oil debate–that there is a huge difference between how much of a resource is theoretically available on planet Earth and how rapidly we can extract it–is too difficult to explain the way we have been explaining it. Perhaps we need some new approaches for explaining this and other aspects of peak oil.
Interview with Greenpeace director
Blizzards, reindeer, darkness: new Klondike is hottest place in Europe
Kunstler on The Warming
The foundation of the “doomer” perspective is implicitly theological – and as such is open to theological critique.
