Deep thought – Oct 30
Monbiot on The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Fat Man, the Population Bomb and the Green Revolution
Peak oil and famine
Monbiot on The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Fat Man, the Population Bomb and the Green Revolution
Peak oil and famine
White House defends ‘health benefits’ of climate change
Climate change seen hurting poor regions
Rolling Stone on the prophet of climate change: James Lovelock
UN report: Unsustainable development ‘puts humanity at risk’
Should scientists embrace economic growth?
The implications of resource limitations
Can Earth’s plants keep up with us?
Financial monsters
The Archdruid Report‘s exploration of possible societies of the deindustrial future moves from the scarcity industrialism of the near future to the salvage societies further out, when the natural resources that power industrialism have been exhausted but the embodied energy in the material legacies of the industrial world become a major resource.
The farmer’s daughter has spiky black hair, 4-inch heels and rock-star dreams
Urban foraging and guerrilla gardening
Food supply and energy: What is the role of oil price?
Beginning tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT, CNN will air a two-part documentary that takes viewers to the front lines of environmental change. It focuses on four main issues: climate change, deforestation, species loss, and overpopulation. The four-hour documentary was filmed across four continents and 13 countries. (Check local schedule)
Comparing What a Way to Go with The 11th Hour
Stop calling me a “doomer”
Desire and the green cure (consumerism)
A strange feeling as a way of life
I have seen a number of films on Peak Oil, climate change and the other ills of our society and planet, but none has moved me so much as this one.
Juan Cole: Oil peak or peak oil?
New Scientist reviews Crude Awakening
Oilwatch Monthly – October 2007
World energy and population: trends to 2100
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
ODAC News
A response to the recent article on Stuart Staniford’s holiness, with musings about the "doomer’s" soul, as well as remarks on hope as an idol.
Falling German birthrate dispels baby miracle myth
CNN:
Overpopulation could be people, planet problem
One of the basic concepts of ecology — the process of succession — casts an unexpected light on the contemporary crisis of industrial society. Is the industrial world an early stage of succession soon to be supplanted?