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President Bush addressed peak oil in a roundabout way at a press conference today. Several quotes indicate that he understands the current state of world oil. The answers? Explore more, drill more, buy new cars that can use electricity, grow more biofuels, add more refineries and hope for cellulosic ethanol.
US air force calls for mission to combat climate change
Rep. Markey lays blame for high oil prices
Bakken oil a one-time harvest
The troubles with food (food security vs food sovereignty)
Anti-hunger protests in Haiti
Avoidable hunger (subsidies)
Afghanistan food riots
White House rejects Dem plan linking arms deals with OPEC output
Obama, Clinton clash over gas tax
Destruction of the American working class
Joint Chiefs chairman says U.S. preparing military options against Iran
The Pentagon strangles our economy: why the U.S. has gone broke
Sharon Astyk: Ok, breathe
The politics of food is politics
Peak civilization and the winter of our disconnect
Everything you think you know about modern society is wrong (and why it matters for PO)
Pentagon worried about spiking oil prices
Bartlett and 8 GOP colleagues: how to alleviate high gas prices
Barack Obama still takes in oil money
It is clear that the current generation will have to adapt to an oil-constrained world. Wouldn’t you expect to see the best and brightest of the economics profession analyzing, passionately arguing, advising national governments and international organizations, never letting the sense of urgency recede from public consciousness?
Al Gore – New thinking on the climate crisis
Obama, Clinton woo coal vote in primaries
Obama’s response on oil money
Government as the trustee of common assets
The US, China, peak oil, and the demise of neoliberalism
What power looks like: meet the superclass
Activist LeDuke focuses on climate, PO, food
Australia’s 2020 Summit: ‘Now that’s a bright idea’
Transition City Leeds
As long as most of us cling to the hope that high gas prices will go away or that a painless silver bullet that will solve our energy problem is just around the corner, few candidates for public office are ready to propose what are thought to be “painful solutions” to our problems. They still shoot messengers.
Melting mountains called a water ‘time bomb’
High energy prices reshape climate debate
John Bellamy Foster: Capitalism & climate change
