Our Fossil-Fueled Future
If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas — and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.
Fossil Fuels
Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement? – Paul Gilding in Conversation with Asher Miller
In this far ranging discussion, Paul and Asher discuss the importance of the psychology of winning within the climate movement and the evidence Paul sees — in the debate of ideas, in the renewable energy market, in the fear of investors — that the fossil fuel industry is on the cusp of becoming a dying industry.
The Third Carbon Age
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.
Betting on Climate Failure: The Ethics and Economics of Fossil Fuel Divestment
Naïve or Necessary? How does the economic and ethical case for divestment stack up?
Beyond petroleum? – headlines
•Big Oil’s Big Lies About Alternative •Peak Oil and the New Carbon Boom •Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012? •Elephant in the room: How OPEC sets oil prices and limits carbon emissions
The Story of More: Richard Heinberg
What if we aren’t about to return to economic growth? What if the economic growth era is actually behind us?
Towards a Post-Oil Civilization: Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil – REPORT
Environmental justice organisations and networks (ERA, Acción Ecológica, Oilwatch) put forward the proposal to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
‘Mad Men’, energy and the culture of want
The name of the popular American television series "Mad Men"comes from the nickname given to those who worked in New York City’s advertising agencies in the 1950s. The nickname came from the advertising profession itself whose members felt that one had to be a little mad to work on Madison Avenue.
The Age of Oil: Every man a master, every man a slave
“If we do commit a sin owning slaves,” said one Alabama slaveholder in 1835, “it is certainly one which is attended with great conveniences.” You can say the same thing about using energy from fossil fuels — it may be immoral, but it sure is handy. And that’s the conundrum that Andrew Nikiforuk examines in The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude.
Life, energy, the universe and everything
In Douglas Adams’ science fiction series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a computer dubbed Deep Thought discovers the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything." Here I ponder the answer to the slightly expanded question of life, energy, the universe, and everything.
Warrior Writers
How can reporting on energy, presented as opportunity or catastrophic risk, compete against grumpy cat memes and economic woes? Is there a secret to breaking through the flood of information to make a meaningful impression on the public?
Head-Bangers: Keeping the lights on
Ogg and Uck explain the pain of fossil fuels and emissions.
