The Energy Transition in México: Towards a Post-Petroleum Era
Fifth Downshift Colloquium, Mexico City

In recent years we have received much bad news, most of it related to oil consumption. These developments were expected but no less ominous. More than one million people have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S. invasion; the disappearance of large portions of the ice shelfs of Antarctica; doubling or tripling in world prices for cereals; soaring world figures of violence against women, children, the elderly and migrants; unprecedented costs of the destruction caused by hurricanes, typhoons, floods, droughts, forest fires; 54 countries are now poorer than in 1990; a billion people have no access to clean drinking water; the north pole shows this summer no ice. The oil era begins to show its worst face: the ecological, social and political collapse of the world. But it is not the end of the world; it is the end of a world, the world of cheap oil in which we have lived for many years.

Culture Change, Carta # 186

Este es un mensaje con relación a los precios record del crudo y la gasolina, para los adictos al petróleo. (¡Hola!). I Incluir aquí, también, a sus primos cercanos, a los adictos a la energía verde (Ciao!).

Este mensaje se refiere al análisis superficial, momentáneo, de las noticias del mercado del petróleo, así como por el poco menos superficial análisis de los que sobrevaluan la utopía de la energía verde. Me prestan sus oídos antes de que yo diga, "Que tengan un buen día de calentamiento global a nivel mundial " pero, nosotros seguimos nuestro camino por separado. Me gustaría pensar que me estoy yendo a vivir al campo o al altamar.