Thing is, there are two, I kind of want to call them ‘attractors’ working here.
Population keeps increasing, oil (and gas etc) supply dwindles as demand increases, there isn’t enough land to use solar/biomass to keep present standard of living.
The other one is that the oil (and gas etc) lasts long enough to totally fuck things [...]
Some people want to rely on the panacea capabilities of ‘markets.’ Is this a reasonable hope?
Global markets will clearly do something in response to climate change, significant changes in the availability of oil resources, soil erosion and so on. I think you’d have to be working from some kind of quasi-religious certainty to be [...]
Imagine for a moment that it’s the second half of the 21st century. Oil is several $k a barrel in today’s prices and there isn’t nearly enough to go around. The global climate is several degrees hotter than it ought to be. Industrial agriculture very probably broke down catastrophically for a while there due to [...]
I was just re-reading Seymour Hersh’s article from last April, on US planning for starting a war with Iran. It’s very interesting, even though events haven’t quite developed as per the plans he described (e.g. last year’s Israeli attempt to ‘take out’ Hezbollah prior to starting a war with Iran, to remove them as a [...]
How many more people must die for this weak man’s vanity?
As you’ve probably heard by now, control of Iraq’s oil is to be handed over to certain corporations, under what are known as Production-Sharing Agreements (PSAs). These agreements are long term (decades long) deals which give the oil corporations the lion’s share of the profits, and which bind the Iraqis to terms agreed by their [...]
So Blair has finally made a statement, through his spokesweasels.
“He supports the inquiry by the Iraqi authorities. He does believe that the manner of execution was completely wrong, but this shouldn’t lead us to forget the crimes that Saddam committed, including the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.”
“As Tony sees it though, if you [...]
Have you seen this jolly little bit of news in this morning’s Sunday Times?
“Israel plans to nuke Iran”
In the light of this, I see another possible explanation or two for the apparent confusion over the military objectives behind the planned ‘troop surge.’
Even if, as seems likely the ‘Israel to nuke Iran’ story is a [...]
So, we’ve all been hearing about the impending ’surge’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 — President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including [...]
What is any likely future UK government going to try to do?
One thing you could say for Stern is that his target of 550ppm CO2 equivalent is better than nothing at all and his approach has more chance of working, because it doesn’t conflict with capitalism, than any approach that could stabilise at 450ppm, which [...]
