Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If we want peace, democracy, and human rights, we must work to create the ecological condition essential for these things to exist: i.e., a stable human population at — or slightly less than — the environment’s long-term carrying capacity.
Mel Gibson’s portrayal of Satan in “The Passion of the Christ” is the one in the driver’s seat of our modern, petroleum-based civilization careening toward the cliff that is Peak Oil while we all look out the window and enjoy the scenery.
World ‘cannot meet oil demand’ /
OPEC warns high commodity prices may kill oil projects /
New ASPO-USA newsletter /
Toward a new vision for Hamilton (PO & cities) /
Energy philosophy for entropic times /
The Darwin Award for self-extinction goes to…
No writing about global warming has had more impact over the past year than a series of closely observed pieces in “The New Yorker” by Elizabeth Kolbert, which have now been collected and expanded into a book. The book ends with these chilling words: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
U.S. energy companies call for caps on carbon emissions /
Texas professor criticized over comments about pandemic /
The Worldchanging newsstand /
Big Gav does global warming /
Global warmers: American Electric Power /
Australian CEOs on climate risks /
Heat rising at the Washington Post (scientist bashing)
Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world /
China grapples with growing water shortages /
Soil crisis is holding back African recovery /
Interior Department spins wetlands data /
New NASA policy backs free discussion by scientists /
Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble /
Global warming’s cost to Canada /
Environmental restoration in the age of climate change
In Bush’s state of the union address we all heard him say the words “addicted to oil”. I was elated for the rest of the week. I know, I know. This doesn’t mean he’ll actually do anything about it, but at least we can now hear the problem addressed from all fronts.
Sustainable fossil fuels (Dr. Mark Jaccard) /
Tragedy prompts personal peak oil website /
NZ branch of ASPO started /
The Oil Drum empire expands to the UK /
Ex-CIA head and environmentalists agree on no-oil thinking /
Revisiting the Olduvai Theory /
Peak Oil becoming de facto /
Poster child of the collapse /
An energy Pearl Harbor?
We’re all in the same global boat – racing the rapids of capitalism, low on fuel and overheating. Colin Tudge assesses the doomsayers, Ecological Ethics, Half Gone, The Revenge of Gaia and State of the World 2006.
Novelist and screenwriter Michael Ventura envisions how we will live after peak oil in a series of columns that appeared in the Austin Chronicle.
The world has passed “peak fish” and fishermen’s nets will be hauling in ever diminishing loads unless there’s political action to stem the global tide of over fishing, says a fisheries expert based at the University of British Columbia.
While those who fear we are headed for major energy shortages or a climate catastrophe in the near future may be premature, they actually offer the kind of advice that Taleb might: “Since the consequences could be so extreme, let’s prepare now.”
