Nate Hagens on Why Natural Resources Don’t Matter
I’m a day late with Nate Hagen’s piece, but I just have to link here – it has a beauty and elegance I really admire, and Id do wish him the very best of luck in his new venture. In fact, I’m starting...
View Article300 Years of Fossil Fuels and Not One Bad Gal: Peak Oil, Women’s History and...
If you haven’t seen this video by Richard Heinberg and the Post Carbon Institute, you should. In a lot of ways it is an excellent summary of the history of fossil fuels, entertainingly and creatively...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day – Sex and Cheap Energy
Today is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, founded to celebrate the achievements of women. Founded in Europe to advocate for greater participation of women in the public sphere,...
View ArticlePublic Resources, Private Resources
Whenever I talk about going to lower energy usage, a percentage of people shout out something like “But that would mean going back tothe stone age, to lepers walking the streets and people throwing...
View ArticleThe End of Growth is a Women’s Issue!
Perhaps the first widely read piece I wrote was entitled “Peak Oil is a Women’s Issue” and focused on the ways that an energy decline might affect women. At the time it was written (the earliest...
View ArticleThe Great Depression Was a Party Decade in Comparison…
From David Leonhardt at the New York Times, a good, if very partial explanation of why the overall future of the US and the Global North generally doesn’t look as promising as the 30s. See if you can...
View ArticleWhy “But We Walked On the Moon!” Doesn’t Mean What They Think It Does
If you have followed energy issues from anywhere other than a cave on a mountain peak, you’ve probably heard technoutopians utter some variation on the following sentence two or three hundred times...
View ArticleIf Trends Continue…
Richard Heinberg has a nice piece about drawing conclusions from present trends. Among his observations: If current economic trends continue . . . China’s economy will be 8 times as big as it is today...
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