Hegemony or Survival?
In Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky suggested that our leaders, facing the choice in the book’s title, might well opt for hegemony over survival.
Overshoot
Extinct Species Take Others Along, Study Finds
More than 6,000 species of butterflies and other insects, as well as mites, fungi and assorted unloved but important species, will also be wiped out when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said.
Australia: Peak Oil – A Perfect Storm
The possible consequences of peak oil are gigantic and involve nothing less than a forced, massive, radical and sustained change in our way of life as we transition to alternative energy sources and the economic/political order they support. Our current oil fed, growth based, globalised industrial civilisation will not survive the transition, something new must take its place.
Not enough juice to keep German industry growing
In 20 years, windmills may generate more electricity than nuclear power plants, but Germany may not have access to the energy it needs for its industrialized economy, according to Gerhard Ott, chairman of the World Energy Council’s German committee.
Dr. Albert Bartlett: arithmetic, population and energy
The retired Professor of Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder examines the arithmetic of steady growth, continued over modest periods of time, in a finite environment. These concepts are applied to populations and to fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal.
Climate: Goodbye, kind world
People choose to believe the climate change deniers because the truth is harder to accept.
Employment tips for the post-oil age
The salient features of the post cheap oil world will be turbulence, economic systems failure, and falling standards of living. The greatest imperatives for Americans will be the reconstruction of local communities and economic networks of interdependency and the re-establishment of local agriculture.
Boys will be girls – eventually
Extinction threat rises as creatures ingest ‘gender-bending’ chemicals from plastics and pesticides
The vanishing bluefin
The fate of the giant bluefin tuna is another example of the way our oceans are being plundered to satisfy gourmet tastes.
Zimbabwe ‘returning to stone age’
The introduction of ox-drawn ambulances is a sign that President Robert Mugabe is taking Zimbabwe back to the stone ages, the opposition says.
Surge in Polio in Africa threatens eradication hopes
As polio cases surge in Nigeria and the virus spreads to other countries, western and central Africa are on the brink of the largest polio epidemic in recent years, officials of the World Health Organization and Unicef said Tuesday.
Darkness falls on Tokyo
Japan’s electricity industry is in turmoil. This may have a big impact on the world’s energy markets
