Category Climate change

The engine of eco collapse

Jared Diamond ignores his own lessons In Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond has given us a provocative and fascinating history lesson in what could happen to our society, should we fail…

Carbon storage?

Total, a huge French energy company, is experimenting with storing carbon emissions in underground empty gas fields, while researchers in Britain propose storing it in underground reservoirs. Why is this important? Approximately one third of all CO2 emissions due to…

Clean cars vs. corporate profit

The European Commission plans to impose mandatory limits for CO2 emissions from cars by 2012. Predictably, right-tilting media as well as car makers oppose it, saying voluntary limits, carbon trading, and technology can solve the problem. While those approaches may…

Peak oil and global warming

James Kunstler, who writes and speaks on the coming environmental, oil and economic crunch, has a central thesis. Oil is running out, and the coming scarcity will have profound effects on all parts of society and business. One example from…