Serious weighty writings - why would you want to read this stuff, it is here for the memory.
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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 00:00 |
Originally published in GreenSWord June 2005
If you start to look in to the Peak Oil debate sooner or later you will come across some sceptic talking about how Peak Oil is all a mad chimera and there is something called abiotic oil which means we don’t have to worry. Abiotic oil means oil that is not formed from biological material over millions of years, but is supposed to be spontaneously created from carbon and hydrogen deep inside the earth.
Beware!
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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 00:00 |
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Originally published in GreenSWord June 2005 Contraction & Convergence is a “buzz phrase” which you need to understand as part of the debate about possible responses to climate change. The idea came out of an organisation called The Global Commons Institute (GCI) which was founded in 1990 in response to climate change becoming a global political issue. They started by showing the worsening asymmetry, or “Expansion and Divergence” of global economic development. In essence the global majority most (likely to be) damaged by climate change are the same majority who are already impoverished by the economic structures of the minority who are causing most damage to the climate. |
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