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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…

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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and…
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears…
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating…
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if…
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity…
The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,…
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are…

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