Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Not your average peak oil theory, from Macquarie
-Total issues oil shortage warning
-Would You Know How to Survive After the Oil Crash?
-Squeezing the last bit of oil from Mother Earth
-UK at risk of global energy shock, says MPC’s Andrew Sentance
-Let a thousand eco-documentaries bloom!
-Six Questions for Peter Maass on the Violent Twilight of Oil
-Yes Men Hoax: “Special Edition” of NY Post Warns of Climate Change Threat
-Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore’s New Movie (and So Must You)!
A few months ago, I had an email exchange with Bill McKibben about the commonly perceived but, we both agreed, false distinction between lifestyle changes and political acts. Those of you who have read _Depletion and Abundance_ know that I spend a good bit of time on just this subject – on the idea that our ordinary daily activities are not political acts, or that we can resolve our problems in a way that isn’t whole, that doesn’t include our personal way of life *along* with our political and community activism.
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– The crack spread
– Ominous forecasts
– Quote of the week
– Briefs
San Antonio’s new Mayor Julian Castro, in office just three months, has inherited a dilemma. The nation’s 7th largest city is suffering from almost 8% unemployment. With limited resources, the Mayor and City Council are searching for ways to create local jobs. At the same time, the City, through its municipal utility City Public Service (CPS), is burning through hundreds of millions of dollars on just paperwork, to prepare to spend billions on a new nuclear power plant project some 200 miles away at Bay City, TX.
Today’s article is the first of a two-part series in which I attempt to forecast general economic conditions that will affect the oil market over the next 10 years. Despite Galbraith’s sensible warning, what we will experience in the aftermath of the Great Recession is not a complete mystery. Strong evidence suggests that during the next decade, the global economy will struggle to regain a sound footing supporting vigorous growth.
-Thomas Paine Would Have Loved Van Jones
-If Obama can’t defeat the Republican headbangers, our planet is doomed
-Good Billions After Bad
-Big Step Forward Lost in Shuffle
-World Bank spends billions on coal-fired power stations
-EPA moves to block W.Va.’s largest mining permit
-“The Coal Nightmare”
The troubled future of industrial society has become tangled up in our collective imagination with a dizzying array of hopes and fears. Will the end of our age bring more meaningful and fulfilling lives to the survivors, as some people insist nowadays, or have daydreams of destruction become an inkblot onto which too many people project fantasies of redemption?
It’s pre-election time in France. Next year, we will renew regional councils – the rough equivalent of State assemblies albeit with far less power – and, of course, all political parties are busy negotiating and jockeying for places and positions…Yet, the old left-right divide stays surprisingly effective…It reveals, however, older, deeper divisions, and asks a question all peak-oil activists should reflect upon : how can one be a progressive, without progress.
-The Royal Society’s Report on Geoengineering the Climate: Geoengineering or Geopiracy?
-Forget about 2050, we’re blowing the carbon budget now
-Red Snow Warning
-Scientists find CO2 link to Antarctic ice cap origin
-A triumph for man, a disaster for mankind
-Climate change will damage your health
-New York City Girds Itself for Heat and Rising Seas
-Staff in carbon footprint trial face £100 fines for high emissions
-French President Nicolas Sarkozy champions quality-of-life measures
-Stiglitz Urges End to GDP ‘Fetish’ in Favor of Broader Measures
-How To Make Capitalism Better: Conclusions from the Tomorrow’s Capitalism programme
-Sarkozy and Stiglitz: A New Way to Grow
