Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
Tag: Third Industrial Revolution
Ideas in Conflict: “Limits To Growth” and “The Third Industrial Revolution”
Should we be optimistic about the overall future of humankind vis-à-vis energy and the environment? True, not too many people walk around pondering this question. Of course, stock market, weight loss, professional football, and our other present-day fascinations won’t mean …
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More Discussion on the Old “Limits to Growth” Subject
Reader “Alan” writes: I suggest you read Brian Czech’s “Supply Shock” on the thermodynamics of why we can’t grow or profit our way out of our onrushing date with extinction. Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything” is another essential book to …
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Lateral Power, Distributed Generation, and the Third Industrial Revolution
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty points out that statistically, violence reduces oil production, and believes that the reason behind the invasion of Iraq was not about the access to oil per se, but for CONTROL of PROFIT from the oil. He …
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Jeremy Rifkin — Advising on Climate Change Since 1981
I’ve finally gotten around to reading Jeremy Rifkin’s fabulous The Third Industrial Revolution, which includes the following: In 1981, The Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, a legislative service organization made up of more than one hundred congressmen and senators, invited …
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