Tag Archives: Richard Heinberg

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 […]

Richard Heinberg talks about fracking on Sex and Politics

October 9, 2014 · by · in climate disruption, economics, Peak oil, Sex And Politics · 1 Comment

On Friday’s Sex And Politics, I’ll be talking to Richard Heinberg. Richard is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute and has written extensively on the topic of Peak Oil, authoring 11 books on the topic since he began speaking about it in 2002. We’ll be focusing on his book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of […]

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 Romney Plan for Energy

August 23, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

So the Romney campaign has released its energy plan. It looks a lot like the things envisioned by Reagan a political generation ago–lots more drilling on federal land, no nod to conservation or global warming, subsidies for alt energy like solar and wind killed. It’s different from Obama, but not markedly different–Obama is hardly a greenie, […]