A view that the world’s leading electricity fuel—and major contributor to climate change—is running out
“We live in a society of consumption where growth is the Santa Claus who will cure all future problems.”
—Jean Laherrere, former head of exploration techniques for French oil company Total
Road to Serfdom: “right-wing crank” becomes best-seller
John Cassidy’s “How Markets Fail” explains how and why Hayek and his fellow free market advocates were cranks
Was the market undone by growth itself?
If the push for economic growth contributes to another crash, we may decide that we’re better off without it
Read: “Beyond the Limits to Growth”
a chapter by Richard Heinberg from “The Post Carbon Reader”
Post Carbon Reader – book chapters free online
From a new book on “managing the 21st century’s sustainability crises”, edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
In striving for the simple life, how far should we go?
Life among the Amish or the “Minimites” can help us all figure out when technology has gone too far
Hard-won battles against illegal logging are paying off
Action inside forested countries and on the international market has slowed illegal logging
Kicking the oil subsidies habit
We’re “addicted to oil,” as George W. Bush put it—but oil companies, it seems, are addicted to oil subsidies
Read: “A revolution in global aid to the poor”
On the “most exciting new idea for tackling poverty and feeding billions”
