Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
After an oil peak, pressure will increase to cut trees to serve as fuel for heating and cooking fires, as well as to clear land for agriculture. Many other countries who have faced this pressure have become bleak places prone to soil erosion, mudslides, dust storms and finally, desertification.
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Heinberg: Top of the Food Chain
Carbon is forever
Acidic seas threaten coral and mussels
The words “holy crap” were pretty much the first ones to my lips this morning, when several people sent me George Monbiot’s latest column…After being so flattered I could die, I suffered the irresistable desire to argue back, and I’m going to…
One-third of China’s Yellow river ‘unfit for drinking or agriculture’
Water in the Middle East: Plugging the supply gap
Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
Peak phosphorous
Thousands pick up free vegetables on Colo. farm
Radical producers go free-range on farm policy (Joel Salatin)
New geopolitics of world agriculture
Russia Today: Earth faces starvation
Monbiot: The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us
Forest protection plan could displace millions, say campaigners
Schwarzenegger’s bid to save the rainforest
Tell Barack Obama the Truth – The Whole Truth (about climate change) – PDF
The Last Viridian Note
Finite Resources Explain the Financial Crisis
Moore’s Curse and the Great Energy Delusion
It was our national pastime – but now shopping is just so over
Many Brisconnections shareholders facing financial ruin (confluence of energy and financial crises)
The animals and plants we cannot live without
Economics blind spot is a disaster for the planet
Ecological Crises and the Agrarian Question in World-Historical Perspective
Abdicating the “A” word, frantically fighting for the familiar
One indicator of resource depletion will be whether a new floor is established that is significantly above previous historical real prices. In other words, higher lows will be more indicative of our situation than higher highs which are usually a very temporary phenomenon. Well, the bust has arrived much sooner than I anticipated. So, now seems like a good time to evaluate.
Prices for oil, grains fall — but not for food
Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
Saving the nation’s seed supply (slideshow, audio)
