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
Saturday, September 02, 2023
From Jenna Orkin
Copper Giant Aurubis Warns of Massive Theft
London mayor scraps plan for 2025 zero-emission zone
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
Tucker Carlson’s accidental confession
David Attenborough to present third series of Planet Earth
Hollywood Studios Have Already Lost the Strike
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
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A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion
Explainer: How Japan plans to release contaminated Fukushima water into the ocean
What Insects Go Through Is Even Weirder Than We Thought
The Climate Solutions We Can’t Live Without
Virtual-Reality School Is the Next Frontier of the School-Choice Movement
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