A proposal for a political fix
While there were many, many things left unresolved in the carbon price announcement, it does appear that the transport sector is in this time around. The CPRS effectively exempted transport fuel until 2015 – as Greg Combet notes in this [...]
Quick link: the Wikileaks Saudi Arabian oil cables
There’s a story in the Guardian recounting several Wikileaked cables relating to the topic of Peak Oil. The first cable, from 2007, reports on a discussion with a former Saudi Aramco executive, who made several claims: …It is al-Husseini’s belief [...]
Eyjafjallajökull, empty skies, complexity and futures
It was interesting on the news tonight to hear veiled suggestions from airlines that planes should be flying anyway in Europe, despite more volcanic ash being emitted by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Also significant was the description of the volcano as [...]
The politics of climate change, the impossibility of conservatism, and the role of the imaginary
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
So what happened to Peak Oil?
Earlier this year, the price of energy, particularly oil, was one of the biggest issues in world politics, and particularly American politics (climate change has always been a second-order issue there). The spike in the oil price drew mainstream media [...]
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