Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Peak oil before 2020 a ‘significant risk’, say experts
-Era of cheap, easy oil is over, warns study
-UKERC Report Exposes Bankruptcy of Government’s Position on Peak Oil
-Peak Oil: The End Of the Oil Age is Near, Deutsche Bank Says
This post introduces the U.S.-based Mobilization for Climate Justice, as well as similar critiques and activism associated with this Climate Justice coalition. As I indicate, the organizers in and around that coalition also address a range of energy & carbon issues (including tar sands pollution, and biofuel land grabs) — along with interrelated and more apparent global warming concerns. Their approach to these ecological issues is based on prior environmental justice critiques and activism, as well as wider opposition towards corporations, and other international market structures.
-Why Are We Lying to Ourselves About Our Catastrophic Economic Meltdown?
-Have we learned nothing from the economic catastrophe of 12 months ago?
-More state businesses using Shared-Work Program
-Just the naked eye
-US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession
-How the Fed Can Avoid the Next Bubble
-Pity the lost generation
-London’s new drinking fountains a challenge to bottled water industry
-UK£10 Million for Low Carbon Community Projects
-Nuclear Poker Heats Up in Berlin
How secure is our civilization’s accumulated knowledge? It is a question that, in a fundamental sense, transcends many life-and-death concerns (threats of sickness, natural disaster, or military invasion) that prompt us collectively to spend fortunes on insurance, health care, and weaponry.
-Obama orders feds to cut energy use, emissions
-Financial overseers opposing overhaul
-Watch What You Tweet
-UN sees rise in ‘land grab’ for food security
-The Coalfield Uprising
-Jumpin’ Jack Verdi, It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
Histories of left-wing politics tend to focus on major parties and movements as well as individual leaders and influential theorists. A small number of professional politicians and intellectuals thereby usually dominate the picture. The new book by labour movement historian John Charlton has the considerable virtue of looking at the movement’s rank and file at ground level, in this case, the North-East of England and particularly Tyneside. The Left’s real soul is to be found amongst those many thousands, if not millions, of unsung individuals, inspired by some sort of socialist vision, who, in their workplace or local neighbourhood, have fought against exploitation and oppression.
-Capital gains
-Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us
-Rereading: Robert Macfarlane on The Monkey Wrench Gang
The human role in extinction of species and degradation of ecosystems is well documented. Since European settlement in North America, and especially after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we have witnessed a substantial decline in biological diversity of native taxa and profound changes in assemblages of the remaining species…We have, to the maximum possible extent allowed by our intellect and never-ending desire, consumed the planet.
-The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Part III: How (un)reliable are the Red Book Uranium Resource Data?
-Obama Has Fanned the Flames of Nuclear Development
-India plans to cut carbon and fuel poverty with untested nuclear power
-Communist China celebrates 60th anniversary with instruments of war and words of peace
-China vows to crack down on industrial overcapacity
-China, U.S. risk rifts in Middle East: former Chinese envoy
-Nigeria and China’s oil deal still a secret
-Parades and protests mark China’s National Day
