Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won’t
– Tea Party & Cars
– Post Carbon Politics, Intro
– Slow Money: Reconnecting The Economy To Soil, Biodiversity and Food Quality, By Woody Tasch
– UK economic recovery ‘poses threat to environment’
– Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
– Cyber-Con (US government and the online revolution)
– The Atlantic: The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
– Forbes: An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
– Ron Paul: ‘What we need is more WikiLeaks’
– Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald & Steven Aftergood debate
– Pepe Escobar: Cracks in the wilderness of mirrors
– Steve LeVine: Why diplomats secretly love WikiLeaks
– On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy
– Dispatches from a beleaguered America in imperial retreat
– State Department To Columbia University Students: DO NOT Discuss WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter
– US blocks access to WikiLeaks for federal workers
– Cyber-Con (quotes on transparency from Obama and Clinton)
– Japan Turns Its Back on Kyoto Protocol
– GOP Moves Quickly to Kill House Climate-Change Panel
– Albert Bates: The Cancún Climate Summit – Opening Day Coverage
– Monbiot: Cancún climate change summit: Is God determined to prevent a deal?
– Vía Campesina: Statement on the Climate Summit in Cancun
– Food Security Wanes as World Warms
The Obama administration announced this week that it has reversed its decision to open up new leases in areas of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast. The intention to lift the moratorium which had been in place since 2006 was made weeks before the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. See the recent UKITPOES paper for more on the likely impact of the Gulf of Mexico disaster on oil production…
-Secrecy of Fracking Chemicals Takes Beltway Spotlight
-Hydraulic Fracturing in the Spotlight
-US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife – with video
-NY shale gas moratorium is a win-win
-Report calls for radical redesign of cities to cope with population growth
-Part 5: White Horse Village turns into a modern city
-Russia considers biggest population redistribution since Stalin
More than a decade has passed since the first tentative email lists and conversations that launched the peak oil movement. During the years since, a central theme of nearly all factions of that movement has been the goal of inserting peak oil into the collective conversations of our time. The IEA’s awkward admission that the peak has already passed may just mark the arrival of the final stage in the struggle to make that happen. At this point, a new and even more challenging question emerges: now that we’ve won, what next?
Considering climate change, Copenhagen, Cochabamba, the coming calamity, and most controversial: capitalism.
Peak oil activists and the mass media have had a rocky relationship. Activists often don’t understand how the media works and can’t fathom why reporters and editors are not better informed about energy issues. Those working in the media are constrained by the interests of their advertisers, their corporate owners and the necessity of focusing on ratings and circulation. … It is more effective to deal with the realities of mass communications than to try to change them.
– Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker: Uncomfortable Climate
– Report: A Billion People Will Lose Their Homes Due to Climate Change
– UN Issues Severe Climate Warning Ahead of Summit
– Cancun Climate Conference; the US and China won’t play
