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
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
From Jenna Orkin
American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government's buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine's first responders – all 57,000 of them.
Jimmy Carter visits peanut festival seven months after entering hospice care
Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever
U.S. Army Hospital in Germany Is Treating Americans Hurt Fighting in Ukraine
Building in zero gravity: the race to create factories in space
New Orleans declares emergency over saltwater intrusion in drinking water
Potential health risks of high salt concentrations for those who rely on Mississippi River lead mayor to sign declaration
Origins of Life? We Now Have Up to 250 Grams of Bennu Dust. Here's What Happens Next.
Vivitrol, a monthly injection of long-acting naltrexone, is the opioid treatment preferred by the criminal prosecution system, including jails, prisons, probation officers and drug courts. But people on Vivitrol are actually more than twice as likely to overdose than on other opioid treatments, according to a new study, writes Maia Szalavitz who is the author of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction. "Physicians and people using this drug must be made aware that the evidence heavily favors methadone and buprenorphine above and beyond any other treatment approach," she says.
An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa. Then the FBI turned up
The criminal-justice system isn’t ready for those wired to see the world differently
Alarming Navy Intel Slide Warns Of China’s 200 Times Greater Shipbuilding Capacity
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