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Lies we tell ourselves about climate change

May 27, 2015 · by · in climate disruption, economics, near term human extinction, Peak oil, Protests, unemployment · Leave a comment

There’s an article I’ve been looking at recently from Resilience dot org, and it weighs in heavily against Liberals–yes LIBERALS–about  the issue of global warming. Resilience is the website put up by people who are in the Peak Oil movement. The theory of Peak Oil has taken an undeserved shellacking of late, what with presidential bromides about […]

And now, Peak Food

February 1, 2015 · by · in climate disruption, economics, Peak oil, Protests, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

It was a quiet Sunday morning and I was looking at the FaceBook while trying to decide whether I wanted to tune into CBS Sunday Morning and listen to Vocal Fry. One of my pals had posted this Independent article. Per a study in Ecology and Society, the world has reached peak of food production […]

Climate change, Peak Oil and AGW Denialists

October 1, 2014 · by · in climate disruption, Peak oil, Sex And Politics, WBCR · 2 Comments

About a month ago I used my ‘politics’ segment of my radio segment on Sex and Politics to talk to Marlo Lewis, a frequent go-to expert on climate matters for Fox News. Marlo Lewis is with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and while we mistakenly identified him as a ‘climate change denier’, that isn’t exactly true.  His contention […]

The Hubbert Slope–a new monologue play

March 23, 2014 · by · in Anti Nuclear, Occupy the Empire Tour, Peak oil, Play performances, Protests · 1 Comment

If you search my blog, you will see more than a few posts on the subject of Peak Oil. In some cases, the Peak Oil discussion is tangential (but crucial) to something else I’m blogging about. For much of the past eight years, I’ve been reading the work of people like James Howard Kunstler, Richard […]

The US is NOT an oil exporting country

February 28, 2014 · by · in Peak oil · 1 Comment

A recent Business Week article looked at the politics affecting the construction of the XL pipeline. If you’re joining late, this is the proposed pipeline that will carry Canadian oil from tar sands across the US to the Gulf of Mexico, ostensibly for refinement at refineries in Texas and Louisiana. Proponents tout cheaper gasoline and […]