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Possible Future Trends of CO2 Concentration and Global Temperature
Possible Future Trends of CO2 Concentration and Global Temperature Wildfire smoke and power line, northern California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Carbon dioxide gas (CO2) has been accumulating in the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution (~1750), because increasingly voluminous fluxes of that gas have been exhausted from the lands and the oceans, and […]
Book review of Wrigley’s “Energy and the English Industrial revolution”
Book review of Wrigley’s “Energy and the English Industrial revolution” Preface. I’ve made a strong case in my book “When trucks stop running” and this energyskeptic website that we will eventually return to wood and a 14th century lifestyle after fossil fuels are depleted. So if you’re curious about what that lifestyle will be like, and […]
Is The Evidence of Global Warming Too Scary For Humans To Cope With?
Is The Evidence of Global Warming Too Scary For Humans To Cope With? I appreciate the numerous emails thanking me for providing an understandable explanation of the global warming scenario. The book, Unprecedented Crime, about which I reported, caused me to start thinking more seriously about man-made global warming. I already was thinking about it, […]
How to Run the Economy on the Weather
How to Run the Economy on the Weather Before the Industrial Revolution, people adjusted their energy demand to a variable energy supply. Our global trade and transport system — which relied on sail boats — operated only when the wind blew, as did the mills that supplied our food and powered many manufacturing processes. The […]
We Need A Social Revolution
wikimedia We Need A Social Revolution Our future depends on our willingness to fight for it In the conventional view, there are two kinds of revolutions: political and technological. Political revolutions may be peaceful or violent, and technological revolutions may transform civilizations gradually or rather abruptly—for example, revolutionary advances in the technology of warfare. In […]
Earth Overshoot: How Sustainable is Population Growth?
Earth Overshoot: How Sustainable is Population Growth? For decades people have been predicting overpopulation would wipe out energy resources if not the entire planet. Every year the population bomb and peak oil crowd have been proven wrong. But how long can the status quo of generating growth by population explosion last? Every year the population bomb […]
Beyond the Footprint
Beyond the Footprint Ed. note: This piece is an excerpt from the new e-book entitled:Ecological Handprints: Breakthrough Innovations in the Developing World A farmer charges his cell phone with solar panels in the Aravilli hills, Udaipur District, India. | Credit: Mark Katzman The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living […]
Growing intolerance
Growing intolerance Bread has always been at the heart of human history – we’ve been baking it for the best part of 10,000 years. But over the past decade there has been an explosion of people reporting problems with eating it. How could wheat, a staple food that has sustained humanity for so long, have […]
