Book review: ‘Post Carbon Cities’
At first I felt this book wasn’t enough for what is needed. Then reality straightened me out.
Politics
Deep thought – June 26
The story of the Singularity is sweeping, dramatic, simple-and wrong
George Carlin’s gift to Apocalypse
Class struggle, fossil fuels and environmental catastrophe
Chellis Glendinning on techno-fascism
The Moses of a post-peak oil world
Who will be the leaders who will carry us kicking and screaming towards the sustainable way of life that we should have been leading all along?
ODAC Newsletter – 20 June 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
United States – June 23
Thomas Friedman: Mr. Bush, lead or leave
Utah judge: Peak oil will require rethinking our transportation policies
Same-old, same-old
Red Cavaney: The ‘idle’ oil field fallacy
Lofty oil could lead to more-resilient economy
Hard times – June 23
Social crisis in Detroit
One question: How are gas prices affecting you?
Vermont Lt. Gov. Dubie declared an emergency in advance of this winter’s heating season.
United Kingdom – June 23
Don’t rely on the boys with the black stuff, Mr Brown
Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change
Monbiot: We must leave the fossil century behind
Wind power to drive green revolution
Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution
United Kingdom – June 20
The Tory leader – maybe he really is green
Prince’s aide attacks Labour over transport
Green activists occupy land set aside for opencast coal mine
United States – June 19
McCain finds no ‘virtue’ in U.S. oil policies
Bush calls for end to ban on offshore oil drilling
Obama on oil drilling: ‘Not a long-term solution’
John McCain’s oil scam
How to enter the global green economy
Internet purchases shouldn’t be subsidized
Speculators – June 19
Wall Street lobbies to protect speculative oil trades
Commentary on speculation from McCain advisor
Myth-makers caught short in oil speculation
Hard times – June 18
Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
Renters wary of new smart-meters
Real human casualties of the mortgage massacre
A sign of the times in Bankruptsville, USA (Vallejo, Calif)
Oil prices fuel fury from the pulpit
Geopolitics – June 18
AFRI (OIL) COM
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says oil price artificial
Brzezinski: Russia after BTC pipeline
Challenging the militarization of US energy policy
The politics of global food and energy crisis
Are they really oil wars?
