With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Friday, August 18, 2023
From Jenna Orkin
An Invasive Hornet Species Is Spotted in the U.S. for the First Time
Study shows that 60% of teens between ages 13-17 agreed with four or more conspiracy statements compared with 49% of adults
Two years on from Taliban takeover, Afghan women are being ‘erased from everything’
Long COVID is devastating and far from rare. As infections rise again, why are we still ignoring it?
Someone With Money Needs to Step Up to Save ProMED
Thousands of Tarantulas to roam across San Diego
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A driverless car in San Francisco drove right into wet concrete and got stuck after seemingly mistaking it for a regular road: 'It ain't got a brain'
Captagon: the drug fuelling the Gulf party scene - and Syria's finances
Report to Congress on A Written Strategy to Disrupt and Dismantle Narcotics Production and Trafficking and Affiliated Networks Linked to the Regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria Sec. 1238(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, P.L. 117-263
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