Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Common Dreams, Le Monde Diplomatique, Oilprice.com, OilVoice, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
Can you think of anything built by humans that you would expect to last 100,000 years? I can’t.
January 19, 2025
A long-running elevator outage at my favorite cinema lead me to find out about America’s “elevator crisis.” It’s a symptom of our infrastructure predicament.
January 12, 2025
Increasingly, it seems that the ongoing spread of bird flu among cattle and the possible evolution of a strain that can be transmitted between humans will be the biggest story of 2025. I hope I’m wrong.
December 29, 2024
All the recent talk about government Bitcoin reserves has gotten me thinking about what happens when governments speculate.
December 22, 2024
Somebody needs to buy U.S. trade policymakers a periodic table of elements. China last week banned export of the key high-tech metals antimony, gallium and germanium to the United States. In this case, China has the upper hand.
December 8, 2024
Those coming into power now on a worldwide wave of discontent appear to understand little about the ultimate underlying causes of that discontent.
December 1, 2024
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