Getting at a Tiny Portion of the Truth in Obama’s Speech
In 2006 when I first met Julian Darley, author of _High Noon for Natural Gas_ and the founder of the Post-Carbon Institute, the world was excited by then-famous “Jack” oil field find in the Gulf of...
View ArticleUgo Bardi on Depletion and What We Leave Behind
Ugo Bardi has a lovely article about both peak oil and intergenerationalism: I sort out again my old watch, “You see, this old watch is still working, more than 70 years after it was made. Whenever I...
View ArticleCould Rationing Be Made Palatable?
The realities of climate change and energy depletion mean that at some point, we will encounter situations where there is not enough of an energy resource or one of the things it enables – whether food...
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ASPO-USA Conference LiveBlog!
Well, we’ve finally got a mostly-complete ASPO Conference schedule. The problem is exactly the sort of problem you’d really like to have when running one of these – that there are just too many serious...
View ArticleWant to See My ASPO Conference Talk About Food?
It is claiming I don’t have permission to embed it (I do, actually), so you can see the video here. I gave this talk back at the beginning of October, in my conference as a member of the ASPO-USA...
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300 Years of Fossil Fuels and Not One Bad Gal: Peak Oil, Women’s History and...
If you haven’t seen this video by Richard Heinberg and the Post Carbon Institute, you should. In a lot of ways it is an excellent summary of the history of fossil fuels, entertainingly and creatively...
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I’ve Got to…Keep…Control: Dancing the Time Warp to Explain Away Peak Oil
(Yes, I will eventually explain this ) I don’t usually participate in the Huffington Post bashing that goes on at science blogs. Not because I don’t often agree with it, but because my colleagues seem...
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On Baby Harp Seals, Coal Plants and Nuclear Power
One of the things I’ve been arguing for years is that most people in the developed world, given a perceived lack of alternatives and no narrative to explain change and sacrifice, will do almost...
View ArticleIs Japan Experiencing Peak Oil First?
There’s a very good piece in the Guardian about the ways that Eastern Japan’s energy crisis is a model for experiences we might have in the future: For large parts of eastern Japan that were not...
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Seeing is Believing: World Energy Consumption
The always-thoughtful Gail Tverberg has a great post that simply shows in visual terms the history of world energy consumption – well worth a look. I’ve reproduced one of her graphs here, but please...
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