New Anthropocene
Peak oil
Tom Schueneman: Redefining prosperity and the fallacy of growth
By Tom Schueneman. Reposted from tcktcktck. As Tom is a Rio Blogger Prize Finalist for this post, if you like it, would like to comment or share it, please do so at the source rather than here. Enjoy! “In an empty world, it was a safe bet that growth was making us richer, but we … Continue reading
Removing Politics From Environmental Governance
A number of years ago, when I was still an undergrad, there was a group of students whom worked together to produce and distribute fresh produce. It was a great and novel idea that provided cheap fruit and vegetables to a cluster of people notorious for a lifestyle of packet noodles, just to make ends … Continue reading
De-industrialism is a plague on reasonable forward thinking
Yesterday afternoon, I saw my new baby for the first time. From head to tail bone it was 41mm long and 11 weeks old. Slightly too young to check for defects, so we’ll have another scan in a week and a half. The image, albeit not the highest quality, showed a little person, nudging around … Continue reading
Goodbye Carbon Era!
Peter Sinclair is on a brilliant roll today! From here. From here. Of course, all of this talk of new technology, not only smart grids – but smart road grids also collecting energy, job growth and clean industry scares the hell out of your everyday climate change sceptic…
Abbott Smells a Dud – Check Yourself, Mate.
It’s hard to write when all you hear seems to be heading from the silly to the outright absurd; hence my lack of enthusiasm of late. What truly makes me gape is the familiar loop of mock outrage and a certain majority willing to take such statements at face value. When any form of regulation … Continue reading
Does Cheap Energy Make Us Dumb?
A title appalling enough to be the grab, before the advert break of some second-rate pop news program. Of course it doesn’t for we’ve never such astounding technology or upper high school students undertaking such advanced mathematics… but then again, the maths lesson tends to be more about how to use a Texas Instrument Calculator … Continue reading
When Transport Let Me Down
Last week was a long week for me. I was sent to Perth for a meeting of the wider network across Australia and New Zealand of the project which I’m currently involved in, to discuss the science, maintenance, application and broader potential use for our micrometeorological and eddy covariance monitoring. Apart from the background politics … Continue reading
No silver lining in peak oil: is the realisation we’re running out distorting the global response to climate change?
The recent Canadian elections saw the return the Conservative government of Stephen Harper with an increased majority. For many concerned with climate change, this was dispiriting news. For years Harper’s government has been waging a war on climate science. DeSmogBlog has been tracking the activities of the Harper government. It makes for depressing reading, as it means … Continue reading
