Things to come (parts 1-4)
Novelist and screenwriter Michael Ventura envisions how we will live after peak oil in a series of columns that appeared in the Austin Chronicle.
Overshoot
Peak Fish: Hooked on fishing, and we’re heading for the bottom, says scientist
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.
Can a Wall Street maverick tell us something about our ecological future?
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.”
Peak oil – Feb 11
The Olduvai Theory: energy, population, and industrial civilization /
The permanent energy crisis /
Are Big Oil’s tanks running dry? /
Kinkos founder: ‘after peak oil: apocalypse or opportunity?’ /
EU admits having no plan for ‘peak oil’ crisis
Lovelock: ‘We are past the point of no return’
Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind’s abuse of the environment is making that mechanism work against us. His astonishing conclusion – that climate change is already insoluble, and life on Earth will never be the same again.
Drivers In For A Shock
Roger Adair on Irish drivers in denial, the collapse of complex societies and addressing an imagination deficit of viable Peak Oil strategies.
The Four Horsemen of Industrial Society: War, Over-Population, Climate Change & Peak Oil
If we take this ancient allegory and apply it to this beginning of the 21st century, what might we see through this old lens? Perhaps we could translate the story to our time as the Four Horsemen of Industrial Society.
The struggle against ourselves
We are faced with an impending shortage of the source of energy which is hardest to replace – liquid fossil fuels. And we are faced with the environmental consequences of the fossil fuel burning which has permitted us to be standing here now. The structure, the complexity, the diversity of our lives, everything we know, everything that we have taken for granted, that looked solid and non-negotiable, suddenly looks contingent.
Environment – Dec 22
A risk of total collapse /
Melting of permafrost threatens homes and roads, scientists warn /
Gas emissions reached high in U.S. in ’04 /
Bill McKibben: Montreal climate summit was too painful to watch /
Eco-tours in Kentucky /
The Fusion of Peak Oil & Climate Change
Peak Oil and Climate Change are two historic events for humans and life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial ways of living and the latter threatens the climatic systems that are an integral part of our world and the way we live and survive.
Thanksgiving Day 2005
Contemplating the end of oil is frightening, even terrifying. …But since it is Thanksgiving, let’s take a clear-eyed look at our situation and see if there is anything that we can be thankful for.
Environment headlines – Nov 6
Environmentalist Bill McKibben on global warming /
Long-term model shows 14.5-degree hike in temperature /
Animal response to climate change may backfire /
EU seeks talks, not targets at U.N. climate meeting /
Canada: dramatic weather changes due to human activity, climate change /
China’s water crisis worst in the world: government official /
Expanding desert could cover China’s breadbasket with sand /
Environmental cloud on horizon for Mediterranean, warns UN
