Someone forwarded a link to this movie tonight: “A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.” Looks interesting, & I’ll check it out, but I’ve gotta say that the trailer contains some questionable assumptions. Seems to follow typical “peak oil” framing: Oil is running out & that nothing can quite replace what oil does, so that’s a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
30 Dec
Something Rotten in Denmark? Looking Back at Copenhagen & Looking Forward to the Future
How you assess the outcome of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC), held in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18, depends on whether you see the glass 95 percent empty or 5 percent full. And how you feel about that extremely modest progress in relation to the planet-wide urgency of the climate crisis. And what you believed [...]
11 Dec
This Week’s Climate Report…
COP15: Of course, the biggest climate news is currently coming from Copenhagen, & some of the best reporting from Copenhagen is coming from Democracy Now!, the only independent news show reporting daily from Copenhagen. As might be expected, some of the biggest rifts so far in Copenhagen have been around issues of climate justice. Developing [...]
3 Nov
Blog Fail, Qwest Fail, Big Media Fail
OK, I said this was about “slow blogging,” but I never intended to be this slow. It’s been over 7 weeks since my last post. Just getting started and then I stopped. Pathetic. I blame Qwest. Qwest Fail: I’d blocked out most of a week in between project deadlines in mid-October to catch up on [...]
12 Aug
Health Care Reform and Energy Reform — Half a Loaf or Just Crumbs?
The array of forces against meaningful reform is formidable and relentless. How will progressives—and all people with basic common sense—respond?
