"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
The question is being raised more and more. In the coming era of climate change and peak oil, where resources are becoming depleted and carbon emissions change the weather, isn’t the underlying problem one of overpopulation? SusHI raises the question…
The Oil Drum explains in a two-part series why trying to extract oil from tar sands is a desperation ploy by the heavily addicted. It’s expensive, an environmental nightmare, and barely returns more energy than it takes to get it.…
Global warming coincides quite exactly neatly with the use of petroleum-based products on a large scale, something which is hardly coincidence. Industrialization and globalization were literally fueled by oil, and an unexpected consequence of that is climate change. Melting ice…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s newly created Office of New Reactors is expecting a flood of new applications, another sign of resurgent interest in nuclear power. The new designs are considerably safer, and can be built “from first concrete to reactor…
The 1997 Kyoto protocol would limit carbon emissions to 11,000 pounds per person. According to one carbon calculator, a single round-trip plane trip across the country uses half this “allowance.” Something to think about as we consider lifestyle changes to…