Don’t feel like an energy hypocrite, just do what you can
As has been witnessed countless times here and elsewhere, the energy business has a big problem. Few people understand even the basic fundamentals and we do a poor job of explaining it. Mention “oil” and most people think of Saudi Arabia and the price to fill up the car, and nothing in between. Compounding […]
Ethnocentricity: just because you saw it doesn’t make it true
The word ethnocentric is vastly under utilized. I can’t recall the last time I’ve heard it used in a conversation, yet it is an adjective that colours our world-view every day. If more people understood the concept, maybe we wouldn’t have to suffer through so many dreary “news” stories. I’ll save you a trip […]
To save the environment (to lower GHG, or just because), we should worry about where all the energy goes, not where it comes from
The world has an energy problem. That can sound like a really stupid statement at face value, like saying the world has a life problem. But it’s true. We have a problem because we’ve become accustomed to a certain lifestyle that requires a mind-boggling amount of energy, and we choose to deal with the […]
How hard will it really be to stop using oil?
Like many other people, I sometimes fall prey to adopting sweeping generalizations based on sheepishly arbitrary observations. The other day I was having coffee with a friend at a hipster-ish coffee shop, and as we contemplated the world’s problems we noticed that many of the male customers had beards. This useless observation then of […]
Too much comfort will destroy you
It’s part of the human condition to seek out comfort. It’s not a stupid thing to do; it’s infinitely more sensible to sit on something soft than to sit on a pile of rocks. Making such decisions is widely regarded as a basic sign of intelligence. But we’re far beyond those decisions. Thanks largely […]
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