Published in Tomdispatch.com, January 23, 2011. Reprinted with permission. Rising Commodity Prices and Extreme Weather Events Threaten Global Stability by Michael Klare Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society,…
Or Notes on the Enthusiasm Gap By Bill McKibben Originally published in TomDispatch.com. Reprinted with permission. [Editor’s Note: I was tempted to change the title of McKibben’s piece to something like “How Obama Crapped on Bill McKibben’s Excellent Adventure,” because McKibben’s account of his trip to the White House with brave hearts and solar panels…
Originally published in TomDispatch.com (Reprinted with permission) Where are they now? Last winter, when record snowstorms brought life in the northeast corridor to a halt, Virginia Republicans launched a web ad, “12 inches of global warming,” and the family of Oklahoma senator and global warming “skeptic” Jim Inhofe built an igloo on the national mall,…
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster by Michael Klare On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America’s leading oil companies argued that BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an aberration — something that would not…