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California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore
California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore Water management is hardly progressive in California these days. Photo: roam and shoot/Flickr CC. If one more Californian tells me how “progressive” California is, I am going to scream. “Progressivism” is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems that were introduced to America by industrialization. […]
A Lesson from the Holocaust for the Era of the Sixth Extinction
A Lesson from the Holocaust for the Era of the Sixth Extinction Holocaust Remembrance. Photo: Ted Eytan/Flickr CC. This article is the first in a two-part series. My mother didn’t die when so many others did – and that means she lived to give birth to me. I write about this now, because it has everything to do […]
Despite Cheap Gas, Coming Back to Peak Oil [Infographic]
Despite Cheap Gas, Coming Back to Peak Oil [Infographic] Yesterday, in Virginia, I filled up my gas tank for $2.75 a gallon. At that price, even old peak oilers like my wife and I hardly think about poor old King Hubbard’s theory much these days. And though gas has been cheap in the U.S. for […]
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization Photo: Hartwig HKD/Flickr CC. I rode my horse out through the woods the other day. It was a beautiful Autumn afternoon as golden light filtered through the trees. My horse was keen to graze in an open meadow, so we found a spot where he could forage for […]
Bubbles and Backlashes
Bubbles and Backlashes Image: trialsanderrors/Flickr CC. Financial markets have been turbulent as of late with no end in sight. A sagging global economy could overwhelm America’s recovery efforts with toxic effects on key climate change and clean energy initiatives now underway. The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to postpone an interest rate hike is but one reflection […]
Presuming to Care about the Earth
Presuming to Care about the Earth Photo: Mihnea Stanciu/Flickr CC. There are times that I find myself wandering pensively in the woods, asking aloud, “so how should I presume?” I just read about the land sinking — up to thirteen inches a year in some places — in the Central Valley of California. I also just read about there being […]
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett’s Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and Viktor Frankl’s From Death Camp to Existentialism (later republished under the title Man’s Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced […]
In Films About Climate Change, the Medium is the Wrong Message
In Films About Climate Change, the Medium is the Wrong Message If you’d like, I’m what you’d call an ex-(aspiring) filmmaker, an early vanguard of what promises to be, in one way or another, an eventual mass exodus from the film and television industries. I won’t go into my reasoning behind film and television’s future […]
How Pope Francis’s climate encyclical is liberating the world
How Pope Francis’s climate encyclical is liberating the world In my life there are two things that have the effect of at least somewhat isolating me from others. The first is being a writer on climate change, peak oil, and the economic crises bound up with those modern predicaments. The other is being a Christian […]
Peak oiler? Not Catholic? You should still stand with the pope on climate
Peak oiler? Not Catholic? You should still stand with the pope on climate I get it, you believe in peak oil. So do I, despite gas at $2.50 a gallon. But peak oil is no excuse for either you or me to just sit around waiting for the final oil crash to make the climate problem moot by […]
Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil
Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil Nothing is more precious than balance, stability, and sustainability. Today, we’re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change, and it’s the only way of life we’ve ever known. Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket. He grew up on […]
Inspiration For the Burned-Out Localizer
Richard Heinberg wants you to “learn to be successfully and happily poorer.” Photo: video screenshot. Inspiration For the Burned-Out Localizer While Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism, Richard Heinberg predicts the next thing will be localism. “All roads appear to lead eventually to localism; the questions are: how and when shall we arrive there, and […]
