Geopolitics & Military

Conflict – April 22

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– China offered oil for sanctions deal over Iran
– Why the US fears a nuclear armed Iran
– Want peace? Solve the energy crisis!
– US Navy to launch Great Green Fleet
– U.S. military shrinking its carbon ‘boot print

When does surplus = resilience?

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There is at least one important class of threats where we might expect modern civilization to be much more resilient than past civilizations. Specifically, modern civilization operates at far higher levels of economic surplus than past civilizations, and this means that it is in a position to devote far higher levels of economic resources on solving certain kinds of problems.

Review of presentations from the Climate and Energy Symposium: Imperatives for Future Naval Forces (updated)

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The slide presentations have been posted from the recent symposium on Climate and Energy: Imperatives for Future Naval Forces, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and the Centre for Naval Analyses (March 2010). This review examines three of the presentations which focused on oil supply problems.

Live from Cochabamba – the alternate climate conference

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Welcome to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth—a massive meeting organized by the Bolivian government in response to the resounding failure of the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen last year.
– Video clips
– From Buenos Aires to Cochabamba (Guardian)
– Changing the Climate for Justice (ColorLines)
– “People’s climate conference” in Bolivia kicks off with ambitious aims (Grist)
– What Evo Morales wants

After peak oil, are we heading towards social collapse?

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We cannot expect our government leaders to help society transition off of heavy oil dependence on account of their being controlled by “big business” interests. Therefore, it is up to average citizens to create the reforms that lead into localized economic and social development.