Moral Failing
With the national weather maps pinker than a Barbie® SUV, more Americans are grudgingly accepting that climate change is for real, that it’s largely caused by humans, and that it’s a major threat to us here and now. It’s probably...
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Summer of 2012
One has to go back to the 1930’s to find a time when so much of civilization was in turmoil at once. The 30’s ended with World War II, tens of millions dead, and much of the industrialized world...
The Drowning Pool
News that a swarm of termites deep inside the British banking system have been fiddling the interbank interest rates (LIBOR) for years in order to systematically vacuum a few billion pence off the exchange floors for themselves is the...
You can’t just do one thing
A conversation with Richard Heinberg. Originally published at ecoliteracy.org Michael Stone: When you think about the systems view of life, what comes to mind? Richard Heinberg: A lot of things. One is the phrase, "You can’t do just one thing."...
Nation’s leading environmentalist’ McKibben: Energy industry’s power is the ‘problem at heart
What’s the biggest political challenge for the green movement: public opinion or the power of Big Energy? That’s the question Chris Hayes posed to environmental activist Bill McKibben on Sunday’s Up with Chris Hayes.
END OF GROWTH UPDATE: Blowing in the Wind
Final part of an update to Richard Heinberg’s 2011 book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Buy the End of Growth Updated eBook Economic contraction and social claustrophobia...
Some Transition reflections on George Monbiot’s announcement that “we were wrong on peak oil”
George Monbiot announced in the Guardian on Monday “We were wrong on peak oil. There’s enough to fry us all“, an article which concluded “peak oil hasn’t happened, and it’s unlikely to happen for a very long time”. Several...
Socio-economic paradigm shift ahead
An interview with Nate Hagens, ASPO-Vienna 2012 by Alexander Ač Introduction The current period can be undoubtedly characterized as an economical, ecological, cultural, political, but also moral crisis. The solution seems to be as far off as ever and...
William Rees Interview
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees puts forward solutions for reducing GHG emissions.
Peak Denial
There is nothing but “Sad News for Peak Oil Disciples” these days, according to the Financial Post. The latest example: Leonardo Maugeri, a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and...