Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Rep. Ehlers, formerly a nuclear physicist, is one of only three scientists in Congress. In response to a question at a town hall meeting, he said: “[Peak oil] is just a tough sell. Sometimes people don’t want to believe what they don’t like, and that’s the problem here. There is simply not an infinite amount of oil.”
The failure of the modern faith in progress in an age of peak oil bids fair to leave the field open for radically different ideologies. Is Christian fundamentalism poised to fill the void?
Vatican issues new green message for world’s Catholics
Timeline: The frightening future of Earth
E.O.Wilson: Acting now to save life on Earth
The Limits to Lakoff (progressivism vs limits to growth)
Video interview with Shell Oil president
ExxonMobil doubles lobby expenditures
Daniel Yergin on energy’s challenges
The highest level investigation of global warming in the history of the U.S. Congress began Wednesday morning when Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), chairman of the brand-spanking new House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, banged down the gavel. [Excerpts]
Why is the green movement so lily white?
Filipino poor suffer most from brownouts, climate
‘Green Nobel’ winners noted for fighting extractive industries
Environmental justice stalled, report finds
Ecuador seeks compensation to leave Amazon oil undisturbed
Capital and nature: Interview with Paul Burkett
Frontline documentary that examines the politics behind the U.S. government’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time. Viewable online.
We are really going to have to hurt badly before a consensus will form around decisive action that will upset the status quo.
Norway aims for zero-carbon status by 2050
China says warming threatens development
Six steps to hell: new book on climate futures
Australian beach protest
Michael Pollan on the farm bill: “You are what you grow”
Agriculture and climate change in the Philippines
NY governor Spitzer promotes clean energy, minus ethanol
Doing right thing isn’t easy, even for those who want to (U.S. attitudes)
Dodd favors corporate tax for emissions
Exxon: The defiant one
Target global warming, target Exxon
