Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill
Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)
Comments are off for this postThrowing our energy at impossible dreams…
"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"
Comments are off for this postPeak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age
We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. I devoted my Master's project to researching peak oil and found strong evidence in support of the theory. Please feel free to circulate this academic document as a primer on peak oil.
Comments are off for this postResources and anthropocentrism
Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.
Comments are off for this postThen & now
Recently a friend gave me a copy of a January 22, 1973 issue of Newsweek. The cover title was “The Energy Crisis”. It’s interesting to look back and see how things have changed; or, to be more accurate, not changed.
Comments are off for this postDysfunction - August 12
Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV
United States - Mar 5
Bush: America must 'get off oil'
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil