Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Against the backdrop of widespread economic carnage, the fact that global oil production likely peaked last summer seems almost irrelevant. The prevailing meme has long been that since oil created prosperity, peak oil would devastate it-but derivatives launched a pre-emptive strike.
Future Scenarios serves as a good introduction to the concept of future energy descent/climate change scenarios.
Matt Simmons sees oil shock from credit crunch
Kurt Cobb: Is thorium an energy alchemist’s dream?
Energy pundits duke it out at Aspen Institute
Social critic James Kunstler offers a decidedly darker view
CBC on peak oil, Transition Town Totnes and Robert Hirsch
Jeff Rubin: Oil scarcity will spell end of globalisation
I have had 37 years in the oil industry. I was CEO of a large company for the last 16 years and I have just retired. … I would make the following observations: there are virtually no unexplored basins in the world. The ones that there are might be in the Arctic, and that illustrates the point quite neatly because it is obviously really difficult to get that.
Postcard from Pipelineistan
China Takes Aim at Dollar
The Mexican Evolution
Trade is Falling Faster in 2009 Than in 1930
Why More of the Same Will Not Work
The Secretary of Synthetic Biology
Washington County puts its energy into saving energy
Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year
Greenwash: Shell betrays ‘new energy future’ promises
A weekly review from a UK perspective
A Farm for the Future
Planning for peak oil
Why the foodie press needs to do better work on seafood
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
Nearly all of the economic analyses we see today have as their basic premise a view that the current financial crisis is a temporary aberration. We will have a V or U shaped recovery, especially if enough stimulus is applied, and the economy will soon be back to Business as Usual.
Big new report from McKinsey: “Averting the next energy crisis: The demand challenge”
The Next Five Years–Peak Lite and the Current Oil Picture
Natural Gas, Suddenly Abundant, Is Cheaper
Perfect storm of environmental and economic collapse closer than you think
Social effects of inequality have profound implications
The Three Bears & The Great Transition
Dr Robert Costanza on ecological economics
The Next Ten Years: What it Will Look Like
