Energy Efficiency

The following is by James Howard Kunstler (March 29, 2010) Nations go crazy. It’s terrifying when it happens, especially to a major nation with the ability to project its craziness outward. We look back on the psychotic break of Germany in 1933 and still wonder how the then-best-educated population in Europe could fall under the [...]

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It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people. The 1776 Declaration of Independence stated that when a long train of abuses by [...]

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Watch the news on TV every night or read the papers about how the share market keeps growing and the economy is growing and you’d think everything is OK Funny thing is though, with all this continued investment, growth and politicians talking up the ‘recovery’ around the world … world trade actually fell by 12% last year, the [...]

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In another disturbing display of human ignorance, the following story is about how – now that we have upset the balance and natural order of things – we will even further increase the use of energy to counter the over-use of energy …   Nature, 426-427 (28 January 2010) | doi:10.1038/463426a; Published online 27 January [...]

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The problem with money is, you can never have enough of it. As banks around the world showed, Gordon Gecko was their idol and no avenue of extracting $’s from anyone anywhere, from local governments, the retired and pension funds put there for those who – after a life-time’s work – could live a comfortable [...]

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