The economic downturn is having an effect on British countryside: poaching. Animals from the smallest shellfish to stags are in danger. Last month, a survey team who visited a river in a remote part of Scotland, were shocked to find that poachers had stolen mussels, with a potential value of nearly £20,000, from the river […]
… leaks from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) forthcoming report which forecasts global oil depletion to be 9.1 percent in 2009 …
Pieni ja sisukas Suomi tuskailee yhä kauppojen sunnuntaiaukiolon kanssa, vaikka Marx ennusti jo aikaa sitten, että kapitalismin myötä ”kaikki pyhä häväistään ja kaikki pysyvä katoaa kuin savuna ilmaan.”Vaan eipä uskonut parta-Kalle, että proletariaatti kyllä kantaa kahleitaan kunnes ilmaan haihtuu alkuaineista tavallisin, hiili. Molekyylipiirroksissa se saa parista happiatomista lystikkäät punaiset kuulosuojaimet. Kävisivät vappupalloista, jos ne paljaalla […]
I’ll just copypaste the whole thing. Have been following Automatic Earth and Ilargi for years. In this post there is a melancholy, almost nostalgic, birds-eye-view that crystallizes the past years and the following months. Maybe it’s also a goodbye for me; time to stop reading, say thank you and take the eyes off. Ilargi: Longtime […]
Kun Tuomioja kirjoitteli bensakupongeista, hän joutui pian perumaan puheensa ajatusleikeiksi. Nyt asialla on Shellin entinen pomo: John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil Co. and one of the most influential voices in the oil industry, called for short-term gasoline rationing by introducing odd-even purchases based on an automobile’s license plate and by limiting the […]
After rising for months, oil prices are now on the decline. SPIEGEL spoke with the head of the International Energy Agency about the future of oil prices, the growing importance of nuclear power and the quantity of oil left in the world. SPIEGEL: Mr. Tanaka, do you know what your organization predicted the price of […]
So let’s predict again: The global economy would collapse if oil hit $200 a barrel, said the top energy analyst at Germany’s largest bank. “Two-hundred dollar oil would break the back of the global economy,” Deutsche Bank AG’s Chief Energy Economist Adam Sieminski said in an interview today in Tokyo. “Next step after $200 would […]
How the World Works: Partisan conservatives pooh-pooh peak oil (and human-caused climate change) because they think that to concede that these challenges are real and must be confronted is to acknowledge that greed is not always good, and that free market capitalism must be restrained, or at least tinkered with substantially. Peak oil and climate […]
