Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
And so the combination of peak oil and extreme weather is likely to create growing food insecurity this decade, particularly since the nation and the world have decided to take no action to address either problem.
-The Legacy of David Suzuki
-China’s Grey Swan is changing colors
-Capitalism and Degrowth—An Impossibility Theorem
-The Oil – Employment Link, Part 1
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
-Paying the Iranians
– How I learned to stop worrying and love the Saudis
– Bolivia: Morales Repeals Decree Raising Fuel Prices
– Tax on Carbon: The Only Way to Save Our Planet? (James Hansen)
– Crafting Energy Security in the 21st Century: A German View of the Challenge
Douglas Coupland’s vision of an oil-crisis apocalypse in his novel “Player One” is so frightening because it seems so plausible. Would you like to be holed up in a tacky cocktail lounge of an airport hotel when oil hits $250 a barrel, the planes stop flying and the power goes out? And that’s just the beginning.
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world’s supply of oil runs out? In a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and other scientists, researchers and writers explain.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Top 10 developments of 2010
-Oil and the global economy
-Briefs
Many automobile enthusiasts believe that the electric car is the wave of the future that will help save the environment while expanding the availability of private transport to the world’s growing middle class. They are wrong on both counts.
2011 lays the ground for potential conflicts and battles that will be played out unless we get much wiser much faster. The emerging attention to our collective crisis will give some of the movement a jolt of new energy, time and investment in 2011. This will be the positive consequence of all the tough stuff we’re facing.
A picture says a thousand words. In this post you will find only charts and graphs conveying important points from the world of energy 2010.
Economist Paul Krugman almost addressed the Limits to Growth in his recent article “The Finite World”, but pulled back before reaching the brink of suggesting there may be physical limits to economic growth. A Nobel Prize may await whomever finds a workable model to prosper human welfare under conditions of depleting resources. Will economists solve this problem, or ordinary people who are learning to live better in The Finite World?
– Paul Krugman: The Finite World
– Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet (oil price bet with Matt Simmons)
– TIME: Can We Run Out of Oil and Other Natural Resources?
– The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction: Craving Truth-telling
– New peak oil book: “Peak of the Devil”
