Supersonic rhetoric, rising fossil fuel consumption, and a dead void between the two. What a mess
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller, American inventor and visionary “Government scientists have produced a new report on climate change in Canada, and it’s beyond grim. The details trigger thoughts of hoarding and maybe selling the house and […]
Canada’s energy crisis – the view from inside and outside the bubble
Sometimes life’s little micro-challenges, if understood and analyzed effectively, can help us see the bigger world better. A great example is traffic. As an urban worker, there are several types of mobile annoyance: one is borne of commuter traffic on busy roads; another is borne of crowded walkways at, say, lunch hour on cold days, […]
The staggering cost and challenge of new infrastructure pummels any quick energy transition plan
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -Richard Buckminster Fuller It is not news to point out that there is a gulf between what ought to be and what can be. I ought to have a Ferrari in my garage, […]
Starving the petroleum industry of capital is, as usual, too boneheaded and environmentally counterproductive for words
A year or so ago a picture circulated the web, a photo of an emaciated and sickly-looking polar bear. The poor beast was elected the new poster child for climate change (a disgusting claim since the bear was clearly ill, and the photographers made no effort to help the poor animal because they wanted to […]
Environmental extremism starts self-destructing – maybe now we can start thinking about a realistic energy transition plan
Maybe you’ve never had a similar experience, but I have one that recurs more often than I care to admit. Back in high school, teachers would make us read “literature” which was torture (as opposed to, say, a car magazine). How was Shakespeare or Hemingway ever going to improve my life? Of course, a few […]
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