Tag Archives: peak oil

Is the Financial Crisis an Ecological Warning Shot?

Considering the financial implosion happening around the globe, I can’t help but feel a little strange writing about carbon offsets. With stock markets down up to 50%, banks evaporating, and whole countries going bankrupt, who has the time or money to think about carbon emissions?
But the Earth hasn’t stopped turning and we haven’t stopped pouring [...]

Peak Oil vs Global Warming

I recently spent a few weeks in California’s endemic car culture, and it got me thinking about oil supply and climate change. America seems to depend on cars in a much more extreme way than Europe or Asia. But all over the world - including China with its 1.3 billion people - economies are [...]