I wrote a post recently in which I mentioned the Black Swan effect, i.e., the tendency of human beings to underestimate the importance and frequency of unforeseeable events in the future. This concept, popularized by Nassim Taleb in his 2007 …
We All Wield Tremendous Power to Restore Environmental Justice Read More »
Here’s another piece of my conversation with a reader on the subject of government’s role vis-à-vis bringing about positive change re: the deteriorating conditions surrounding our environment: climate disruption, ocean acidification, increasing levels of toxicity, loss of biodiversity, etc. I …
Humankind’s Chances for a “Soft Landing” Re: the Environment Read More »
Here’s a short but wonderful article by Allan Hoffman, PhD USDoE (Ret.) that summarizes U.S. energy policy and where it may be headed vis-à-vis the Earth’s great empires and what eventually brought them down. Of course, there are many great aphorisms …
Our Future of Energy Policy–and Defunct Civilizations Read More »
As I wrote a few weeks ago, there are tiny bits of land all over the world that are swearing off fossil fuels entirely. Who knows which country will be the first household name to do the same. Denmark is …
What Happens to Big Energy as Whole Countries Say Goodbye to Fossil Fuels? Read More »
In conversations I had many years ago with people who followed U.S. energy politics closely, I received several suggestions that I not criticize Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) too harshly. “He’s a laughing stock,” I was told repeatedly. “The incredible ignorance …
Tragic Irony in U.S. Politics Re: Energy and Our Environment Read More »
I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve come across the concept in the title of this post. I’ve probably written it more than I’ve read it, but I’m not really sure. It sure is a catchy little son …
Ex-President of Maldives: ‘There’s Nothing More Conservative Than Conserving The Planet’ Read More »
When I wrote a piece a month or so back lamenting U.S. president Barack Obama’s “all of the above” energy strategy, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty commented that I need to keep things in perspective, that things could be a …
Obama’s Energy Policy Could Be A Great Deal Worse Read More »
The effects of Big Money on politics are loathsome indeed, though it’s gratifying to know that there are places that this corruption simply can’t reach. Take Oregon, for instance. Far be it from me to tell the Koch Brothers how …
Big Times for Koch Industries and Other Kingpins of Big Coal – But Not Everywhere Read More »
Among other casualties in the U.S. midterms was the MaydayPAC, the self-proclaimed “political action committee to end all political action committees” which hoped to begin the removal of Big Money from the American political process. The relevance here should be …
Core Concept of the MaydayPAC Must Succeed If Clean Energy Is To Prevail Read More »
When I published this piece just now and found this pic of Mitch McConnell eagerly demonstrating his support of the gun industry, I was reminded that the new Senate majority will have other jobs in addition to rolling back the …
New Leadership in Congress Will Have a Range of Different Missions Read More »
