City Councilman, Staunton, Virginia
Wall Street is the best immediate target for a huge protest movement, since it was the freewheeling gambling of big banks that pushed the economy over the edge in 2008 and started the Great Recession. Now, as Occupy movements pop up around the US and across the globe to draw attention to economic inequity and [...]
When my friends with green groups dismiss peak oil as a propaganda campaign run by the oil industry to scare the public into chanting “drill, baby drill,” I smile. Hey, I care about peak oil but I’m also an environmentalist from way back, I protest. The Sierra Club card — I won’t leave home without [...]
To prepare for peak oil, I’ve argued that nations need to rely less on imports and bring their manufacturing back home. But here’s an import from China that I’d like to see come to the West. In advance of China’s National Car-Free Day in September, Chen Guangbiao, a flamboyant but green-friendly billionaire, staged a publicity [...]
Maybe you’ve tried arguing with a Fox News fan about global warming? Soon, you could start having the same kind of time-wasting exchanges about peak oil and energy depletion. The good news is that unlike climate change, most people haven’t even heard of peak oil. That’s certainly a challenge, but it’s also an opportunity to [...]
If you’re into peak oil, you’ll love this infographic from carsort.com. It’s simple and engaging enough for you to send to your friends who don’t yet know or care about peak oil, with basics on where oil comes from, what countries use it most and even what peak oil is. But it’s also snazzy enough [...]
Every time I’m tempted to stop worrying and love oil companies, they do something to set me straight again. A few weeks ago, when I watched the documentary Houston We Have a Problem, I wanted to hug the Texas oil guys who said that the world was running out of oil and that the economy [...]
How do you talk to your brother-in-law from Tucson who thinks that peak oil is bogus because there’s plenty of oil in the good ol’ US of A if only the treehuggers would just let us drill it? You may have decided that it’s not worth spoiling a tolerable Thanksgiving dinner with yet another argument [...]
Despite the plans of major electricity users around the world to pull away from nuclear power after Fukushima, Saudi Arabia has announced that it’s planning to start building power reactors at a breakneck pace. Why? “To reduce its reliance on polluting fossil fuels,” according to Al Arabiya (via my friend Steve Knox). Peak oil is [...]
“Why free inhalers? Because COAL CARES. For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler, Coal Cares™ lets them inhale with pride,” announces a website that claims to be “a goodwill campaign from your neighbors at Peabody Coal.” But Coal Cares is actually a spoof done in the culture-jamming style of Adbusters or [...]
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