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“With just 5% of the world’s population, the United States now burns up to 20.6 million barrels of oil a day, or 25% of the worlds current output.” The insatiable demand for oil means that US ports must accept on supertanker every four hours, just to keep the country running. From America’s perspective, the large [...]
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Canada has a lot to lose from the possible global decisions being made in Copenhagen over the next few weeks – and most of it revolves around oil and natural gas reserves that are being exploited in Northern Alberta.
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“Every decision made in any level of government should aim to reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy in general, rather than increase them”.
Would it even be possible to implement and follow a policy such as this?
It seems that whatever we do these days, it involves a lot of money, equipment, and inevitably fossil [...]
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In an amazing change of direction, the US is considering market intervention for speculative buying of energy futures. Hang on, I thought the act of participating in the market was speculative to start with?
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A “psychological avalanche” of unimaginable, global proportions is dawning on us. We have woken to a new reality, one where the future of the economy, commerce, food security and transportation are likely to be radically different. Seth Godin points out how much time and effort is expended in dealing with the immediate issues of the [...]
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About thirty years ago, the Saudis decided that they needed to become self sufficient in the production of wheat. Of course, anyone who’s tried to grow cereal grains knows – you need water and nutrients, two things that are natively lacking in the desert.
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It is human nature to avoid thinking about things that we assume someone else is taking care of – or things that we believe don’t really impact us. Two stories, one warning of impending change, the other oblivious to any threat of Australia losing it’s precious way of life…
Hard times here to stay | Otago [...]
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