Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
More than 6 million PCs will be left on over Christmas, consuming nearly 40 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Many of our beloved technological toys are remarkably inefficient and use more electricity than they really need to.
A final narrative exploration of life in a deindustrial future, fifty more years and several rounds of planetary change after “Solstice 2100.”
Flying blind to the brink of extinction
The impending mass extinction & how to stop it
Complex marine systems evolved after mass extinction of earth species
Evangelicals on extinction
Nine billion or bust!
Population: Apocalypse now
China’s water shortage a population problem
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
Soaring oil prices and demands for energy security are boosting the attractiveness of low-quality sources of petroleum, such as tar sands and coal, at the risk of causing significant environmental damage and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a new study.
Self acknowledged "doomer" author writes, "despite all the fun you have trying to plumb our doomer souls, a more important discussion is why we prepare for a crash, not why we believe in one."
In what’s believed to be a world first, 16 of Australia’s leading faith communities released a document on global warming.
Further explorations in the post-peak scenario presented last week in “Solstice 2100,” the second of three snapshots of life in deindustrial America.
“My 12 step programme for reducing my oil dependency. In order to make my life less reliant on the unreliable, I pledge to myself to strive towards the following 12 goals over the next 6 months…”
My point is not that Peak Oil doomerism is wrong. We face enormous crises and we have the tools to end civilization. But remember, as you feel yourself drawn to the apocalyptic story, that it is the natural place to go in uncertain and dangerous times. We are culturally programmed to do it.
I have come to think that part of the reason behind the “die-off” perspective … is in fact that a generation of men are coming to realise on some level that they are almost entirely unequipped to face the challenge that peak oil creates.
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a UN research institute.
