Climate – March 5
UK plans to cut CO2 doomed – scientists
Hurricane heat
India’s ‘wet desert’ hit by climate change
WaPo talks collapse: Climate-change precipice
Overshoot
Enough with the freakin’ bathroom metaphor already!
Embedded in this argument is “dignity is equivalent to my not having to share.” I actually believe the contrary – that real dignity begins at the point that we recognize that other people have rights to the bathroom too, and find a means of acomodating them.
Peak oil thoughts – Feb 14
Homer-Dixon interview: crash inevitable?
Chat with Dmitry Orlov
Post-petroleum stress disorder on the Archers
THE Progressive crises: global warming and PO
Hybrids, biofuels and other false idols
Worldviews – Feb 9
An Islamic view: ‘Rampant’ society upsets natural order
David Korten interview
Living in a state of exponential delusion
Marxism and the ecology of destruction
Five axioms of sustainability
If leaders do not begin to abide by these axioms, society as a whole, or some aspects of it, will assuredly collapse.
Limits to Growth co-author says collapse due to climate possible
It is unlikely that oil scarcity will prove capable of triggering a global collapse, according to Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers, co-author of the prophetic 1972 book The Limits to Growth. “The period of high oil prices will give strong stimulus for increased energy efficiency,” he said. However, the rapid increase in emissions of climate gases does have the potential to cause a collapse.
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Immanentizing the Eschaton
Absent from most of the discussions of the motives of peak oil “doomers” is the role that old myths in new clothes play in today’s culture. Can we think about the future at all without trying to impose mythology on it?
A post-oil man
Strangely compelling video-art featuring a peak oil survivalist.
Children of Men: everything your denial keeps you from seeing
Commentary on the recent film.
Collapse – Jan 9
Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes
Climate change killed off dynasties in China, Mexico
Apocalypto: a movie review
Misplacing the apocalypse
The foundation of the “doomer” perspective is implicitly theological – and as such is open to theological critique.
Peak oil – Dec 24
McKibben in Sierra Club: Energizing America
TOD: A primer on reserve growth
How to address contrarian arguments: “We have huge reserves”
Rail-Volution on peak oil
Peak food and population overshoot
We don’t know Jack
