Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
…Let us drop the conceit that these are “problems,” and that they can be “fixed.” Let us instead try an experiment: let us dissociate from human history, and free-associate our way into the next chapter of natural history, which, let us bravely assume, a member of our ecologically challenged species will still be on hand to narrate.
The question for a future with ecological limits becomes: What shall we do with this powerful force of envy which has been awakened across the globe? How will people, both the rich and those aspiring to greater wealth, come to grips with limits which will undermine the consumer society within which that envy flourishes?
ared Diamond calls it “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.” Bill Mollison says that it can “destroy whole landscapes.” Are they describing nuclear energy? Suburbia? Coal mining? No. They are talking about agriculture.
World’s Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure /
Thirsty Planet /
Retreating glaciers take Earth’s water stores /
More than two million people face shortage of drinking water in China /
Chinese Impose Rules for Water Use /
Saving The World, Drip By Drip /
EB news round-up
Lebanon oil spill crisis /
Altered Oceans: 5-part series on the crisis in the seas /
A ‘jaw dropping’ discovery in earth’s oceans: Many more bacteria than expected
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Scientists try to find out why the krill is gone
Apocalypse no! An Indigenist perspective / Converging ecological crises: are we up to the challenges? / Signs of the times
Institute of Science in Society ocean series:
Oceans in Distress /
Oceans and Global Warming /
Oceans: Carbon Sink or Source? /
Acid Oceans /
Abrupt Plankton Shifts /
Global Warming and Plankton /
Plus: Undersea gas could speed global warming – study /
Warmer waters disrupt Pacific food chain
Harper’s Magazine covers peak oil movement /
Peak Oil and Michigan’s Energy Future /
Why It’s Hard to Debate a Cornucopian /
Jay Hanson and DieOff.org /
Power for the people: what sort of energy? /
How Cuba survived its oil shock /
Canada: People may have to pick eating over heating
Grain Drain /
Wheat price soars as world granaries run low /
India grows a grain crisis /
Zimbabwe: ‘Power Cuts Could Reduce Wheat Yield’ /
Lester Brown: The grain needed to fill an SUV’s tank could feed a person for a year /
Food crisis in Lebanon
What kind of mess would we find ourselves in, should a sudden reduction in the scope of trade relations visit the entire globe – a reduction precipitated by extremely high oil prices?
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community /
Portrait of a Perfect Economic Storm /
How Likely Is Collapse? /
Surviving Hard Times; It’s Not for Sissies /
North Korea & Cuba: Peak Oil Preview /
It Takes Energy to Make Energy / More…
Car culture runs over life /
Learning from Easter Island – crunch time for planet earth /
Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical /
Bush energy plan whacks conservation
