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Top 5 reads for 2010
Posted Dec 22, 2010 by Simone
PCI's fellows and staff have once again been looking into, behind and ahead of the news to provide you with commentary and insight on the issues in these challenging times. Here is just a small selection, to read many more see our publications page.
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The IEA’s New Peak Post by Tom Whipple For two weeks now the peak oil portion of cyberspace has been abuzz with commentary on the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) newly released World Energy Outlook 2010. Without missing a beat and without much explanation, the world’s leading compiler of everything about energy has gone from denying that conventional oil production will peak in our lifetime to saying it happened four years ago... Read more |
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Infrastructural Ecologies: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works Post by Hillary Brown Economic localization offers the key to solving a growing number of global problems, including peak oil, climate disruption, and financial meltdowns. Yet the perception remains that this solution is very costly... Read more |
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The End of Growth Post by Richard Heinberg The economic crisis that began in 2007-2008 was both foreseeable and inevitable, and it marks a permanent, fundamental break from past decades—a period during which most economists adopted the unrealistic view that perpetual economic growth is necessary and also possible to achieve... Read more |
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9 Global Experts Steer the Gulf Oil Spill Conversation into Fresh Waters Post by Erika Allen, Tom Whipple, Bill Ryerson, Stephanie Mills, Warren Karlenzig, Zenobia Barlow, David Fridley, Gloria Flora, David Hughes In an effort to broaden the conversation about the horrific Gulf Coast oil spill, nine Fellows of the Post Carbon Institute offer their perspectives on largely underreported aspects and outcomes of the disaster... Read more |
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Navigating between the best of all possible worlds Post by Asher Miller Maybe his time as editor of Skeptic magazine has taught Michael Shermer how to spin a yarn of complete and utter nonsense. That's the only explanation I can come up with for the Panglossian drivel he published in the Los Angeles Times last weekend... Read more |
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