Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
America has a problem bigger than social security, or the price of prescription drugs, or gay marriage. America is heading into a situation in which it will no longer have an economy. The Republicans at least have an excuse for their willful blindness — they’ve already taken the position that the life of extreme car-dependency and everything it implies is not negotiable.
…the global oil peak implies that all the nations of the world will have less total energy to divvy up. I just don’t see where the United States is in a particularly favorable position on this. Have you heard of any plans to reduce our extreme dependence on cars? …Are we going to subcontract the Jolly Green Giant to go around America moving things closer together so we don’t have to burn so much gasoline?
Activist and author George Daffan on Peak Oil, the collapse of civilisation and the role of the mass media.
This is the face of an elite Iraq that few get to see. Foreign companies invite oil officials to neighboring Jordan to cut deals, since it’s considered too dangerous for CEOs to travel to Iraq, ministry officials say privately.
There is growing evidence — in polling and in public statements of church leaders — that evangelicals are beginning to go for the green. Despite wariness toward mainstream environmental groups, a growing number of evangelicals view stewardship of the environment as a responsibility mandated by God in the Bible.
…a curious transformation is occurring in Washington, D.C., a split of foreign policy and energy policy: Many of the leading neoconservatives who pushed hard for the Iraq war are going green.
The climate change denial lobby – funded by the US oil industry – has now moved to the UK, warns Bob May
Tens of thousands of Bolivians have rallied in Santa Cruz – the country’s economic capital – to protest against cuts in fuel subsidies. Organisers pledged that the protests, the culmination of days of unrest over fuel prices, would remain peaceful.
Representatives of indigenous peoples blocked more than 100 pieces of heavy machinery in Sakhalin on Friday to protest against local oil and gas projects.
An oil-free New Zealand is on the Green Party’s agenda. … co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons warned of an oil crisis within 10 years. “The end of cheap oil is coming towards us with the force of a tsunami and New Zealand is not ready,” she said.
Pakistani authorities suspended gas supplies from the country’s largest gas field after clashes between tribal militants and security forces killed four people, officials said.
Hundreds of demonstrators stoned government vehicles, blocked traffic and battled riot police in the Nepalese capital Tuesday to protest the increase in fuel prices by the government.
