Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The heart of the hearings focused on the idea that 75 percent of the world’s oil reserves are now in the hands of national state-controlled oil companies and this percentage is expected to keep growing.
Strangely compelling video-art featuring a peak oil survivalist.
Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy…; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot… ; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. [excerpts]
Kunstler: The cheap oil mirage
Managing the transition from peak oil
The URGE
Inflation and building big things
New book: The Battle For Barrels – Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures
Understanding the delusions under which America’s leaders and media suffer allows us to see why the most obvious solution to America’s predicament in Iraq goes unmentioned, namely, a vast crash program to free America from fossil fuels, especially oil, in favor of renewable, low-carbon sources of energy.
ASPO’s Steve Andrews speaks in New Mexico
Does the peak oil theory just fall down?
Indirect impacts of peak oil and climate change
Mayor’s climate protection agreement compared to PO resolutions
Destabilizing the Horn: American-backed warlords invade Somalia
What’s at stake in the Horn of Africa
Background: The oil factor in Somalia
His “endurance” criterion is flawed in that it focuses on endurance of the energy system, not ecosystems. “…clean energy – whether relying on fossil fuels or some other option – does not ensure a sustainable human presence on earth…”
This morning the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources launched its New Year with an unusual hearing into “The Geopolitics of Oil.” There was an almost palpable sense of graveness and alarm that lent a chill to the room.
Q & A with CEO of AES – clean coal?
The greening of the oil sands
Interview with Paul Gipe, wind pioneer
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. But just how the impacts of these two problems relate to one another, and how policies to address them should differ or overlap, are questions that have so far not been adequately discussed.
Slick new Peak Oil Primer from ASPO-Spain
Heinberg: bridging peak oil and climate change activism
Kunstler: A wake-up call in the shadow of oil scarcity
Kunstler foreshadowed
Reason: political peak oil
