Writer and historian Jeremy Brecher has some compelling suggestions for “drawing together workers, unions, and allies around a broader program for protecting jobs by protecting the environment” in the November/December issue of Dollars and Sense magazine: A Superfund for Workers: How to Promote a Just Transition and Break Out of the Jobs vs. Environment Trap. When…
We would do well to pause, and ponder both the data and implications presented in the Post Carbon Institute’s latest report, released a few days before Halloween, Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check On U.S. Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil & Shale Gas Boom. The PCI’s new report exposes current oil industry & Energy Department…
Our neighbor over at Sebastopol’s Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, has posted an excellent new essay at Resilience.org that touches upon numerous facets of current political debates over energy, economic growth, and climate change. One aspect of the essay’s thesis in particular caught my attention: Political prejudices tend to blind us to facts that fail to fit…
