Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change: A Data Blog
Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change: A Data Blog Finding solutions to immediate problems and our future needs requires some difficult decisions, and if not thought-out, short-term thinking might create contradictory responses. Though often depoliticised by compartmentalising different problems, across society decisions on energy and the environment are innately tied to lifestyle […]
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out at least twice in the real world, with microphones live and cameras rolling. I’m thinking […]
Daneil Schmachtenberg: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification #05
Daneil Schmachtenberg: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification #05
Running Out Of Sweet Spots: Shale Growth May Not Materialize
Running Out Of Sweet Spots: Shale Growth May Not Materialize U.S. shale drillers are looking to boost production in the short term Industry data suggests that well depletion is advancing Drillers remain upbeat about the short term forecast for shale oil production During the last shale oil boom when producers were racing to see who […]
A 50-Percent Decline Will Only Be A Correction
A 50-Percent Decline Will Only Be A Correction A 50-percent decline will only be a correction and not a bear market. I know. Right now, you are thinking, how could anyone suggest a 50-percent decline in the market is NOT a bear market. Logically you are correct. However, technically, we need an essential distinction between […]
Welcome to the age of cuts
Welcome to the age of cuts The UK government faced a barrage of criticism over its National Insurance hike this week. The tax – which theoretically pays for public services, pensions, and benefits – was in creased last autumn, before the political class became aware of the massive increase in gas and electricity prices coming later this year. However, […]
Days of reckoning
Days of reckoning Here’s something which will likely be universally unpopular: The government shouldn’t do anything to subsidise energy prices. I say this in the face of a £700 or so increase on annual bills announced today. And this is just the beginning, because, as Nils Pratley at the Guardian points out, when the price cap is raised again […]
February is…
February is… …National Pesticide Safety Month. Let’s review some key points of safe pesticide use. Socrates said, “ The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms” So let’s define a pesticide. A simple definition is any substance used to control, deter, incapacitate, kill, or otherwise discourage organisms harmful to plants, animals or humans can be […]
Volcanoes and climate: How will the eruption in Tonga affect our gardens?
Volcanoes and climate: How will the eruption in Tonga affect our gardens? If you have watched the news at all in the last two weeks, you know that there was a huge underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2022, that spewed ash and gases into the atmosphere. It blew with […]
#221. Strategies for a post-growth economy
#221. Strategies for a post-growth economy PART ONE: BUSINESS IN A NEW ERA Under current conditions, it’s increasingly hard to understand why the inevitability of economic contraction remains so very much a minority point of view. Many of us have long understood why past growth in material prosperity has gone into reverse. Here, with the SEEDS […]
Largest UK Supermarket Warns “Worst Has Yet To Come” Amid Food Inflation Crisis
Largest UK Supermarket Warns “Worst Has Yet To Come” Amid Food Inflation Crisis Britain’s largest supermarket chain warned “the worst is yet to come” on food inflation as the cost-of-living crisis pulverizes the working poor. John Allan, chairman of Tesco Plc, told the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live that low-income households have difficulty choosing between food and heat this winter. […]
Biden Presses Reluctant German Chancellor On Halting Nord Stream 2, Imposing Russia Sanctions
Biden Presses Reluctant German Chancellor On Halting Nord Stream 2, Imposing Russia Sanctions Macron was in Moscow in talks with Putin, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington meeting with Biden on Monday. Despite Germany lately coming under heavy criticism from the more hawkish corners of the NATO alliance for its less than muscular response to the […]
The End of Free-Lunch Economics
STEFANI REYNOLDSAFP via Getty Images The End of Free-Lunch Economics Since the global financial crisis, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, fiscal and monetary policymakers have operated as if there are no tradeoffs to their expansionary policy programs. Now that economic conditions have changed, they may soon have to relearn old lessons the hard way. […]
Fossil Fuel Companies Received $5.9T in Subsidies Worldwide
Fossil Fuel Companies Received $5.9T in Subsidies Worldwide Fossil fuel subsidies shield us from the real price at the pump Oil Refinery at Night 2020 was a banner year for fossil fuel subsidies worldwide propping up the world’s oil companies with $5.9T in subsidies according to the International Monetary Fund. Conservative estimates put US subsidies to oil companies […]
The past’s extreme ocean heat waves are now the new normal
The past’s extreme ocean heat waves are now the new normal More than half the global ocean experiences high temperatures that were rare a century ago Yesterday’s scorching ocean extremes are today’s new normal. A new analysis of surface ocean temperatures over the past 150 years reveals that in 2019, 57 percent of the ocean’s surface experienced […]
