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We’re all peak oilers now

By Staff Reports | June 1, 2011

There has been a distinct increase in dialogue around energy in the last year, and I hear a growing acceptance of the idea that we live on a finite planet and will either reduce the amount of energy we demand from this planet, or hit some version of a brick wall when that demand cannot be met. Maybe we’re there already, we’re just not hitting the wall at speed, and therefore … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: climate change, communication, Paul Gilding, peak oil, resilience

Weather will never be weird enough to end climate denial

By Erik Curren | May 31, 2011

truck damaged in Joplin tornado

When it comes to climate change "denial is still the dominant response," writes Paul Gilding in The Great Disruption. "We won't change at scale until the crisis is full blown and undeniable, until the wind really kicks up speed. But then we will change." When I read Gilding's book I thought it would take something like this year's historic storms and floods in the Midwest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Bill McKibben, climate skeptics, floods, Paul Gilding, plutocracy, tornadoes

A day late and a dollar short on climate change

By Erik Curren | May 13, 2011

The Great Disruption book cover

Though he predicts that the world's nations won't act to slow climate change in time to avoid disaster, Australian sustainability consultant Paul Gilding seems like a pretty cheery guy. "Despite the evidence and the straightforward logic of the crisis being here now, or at least soon, denial is still the dominant response," writes Gilding in his new book, The Great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Climate Tagged With: Amory Lovins, James Howard Kunstler, Paul Gilding, sustainable business

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