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by Culture Change
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23 August 2010 |
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In the past week Culture Change's independent oil industry analyst Jan Lundberg weighed in on renewable energy, electrification and overpopulation for a high-level Europe audience and for the U.S.'s iconic environmental group, the Sierra Club.
For Europe, Jan's message focuses on ground rules for imagining renewable energy on a massive scale. For the Sierra Club, Jan passed along to its Executive Director and magazine his concerns regarding oil's overwhelming role today and what that means for electrification and electric cars. |
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by Peter Goodchild
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01 August 2010 |
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One thing my wife and I learned from seven years in rural Ontario is that country
living doesn't always mean freedom from money issues, and of all our expenses the
greatest and most persistent was the car. People who live in the country nowadays
are actually more hooked on automobiles than those who live in the city, since there
are long miles of highway between one's home and other destinations such as shops or
a job. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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25 June 2010 |
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The unsustainable U.S. economy and coast-to-coast consumer society that
uses more oil than any other nation will keep up its energy gluttony until
supplies finally give out.
Because oil is the most critical part of our energy mix, and it supplies
critical materials and chemicals besides fuels, a sudden, crippling oil shortage can
paralyze most of the work, commerce and law enforcement going on in this
country. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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24 June 2010 |
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The dominant culture reaches deep inside us like a hidden, secret implant,
limiting our behavior and even our ability to think. Fortunately, it can
be excised. I have experienced days on end without it, but some people
are more prepared than others to appreciate its existence. Leaving the
United Paved Precincts of America (a.k.a. the USA) helps a lot. But the
ingrained myths of modern society -- especially technology's infallibility
in uplifting and amazing us onward to an artificial paradise -- help to
close minds. |
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by Ted Trainer
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23 June 2010 |
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Editor's note: This article is a summary of a new paper published in Energy Policy, available at sciencedirect.com. For a detailed discussion of renewable energy's limits see Renewable energy – Cannot sustain an energy-intensive society. The author told Culture Change, "Central in the delusion system moving us
to the brink is the unquestioned faith that renewables can preserve affluence and the
growth society; it is extremely difficult to get anyone to think about this." |
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by Brent Blackwelder
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21 June 2010 |
 President Obama triumphantly entered office with the popular promise of moving the United States to a cleaner energy basis, but his actions to date, along with those of the Congress, have promoted two types of dangerous energy developments: off-shore oil drilling and nuclear reactors.
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