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 23, 2023
From Jenna Orkin
A military panel deemed a suspected 9/11 key accomplice unfit for trial due to the CIA's 'torture program'
Martha Muñoz has shown that organisms can influence their own evolution—a lesson she’s passing on to her students
China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race
Chinese academics and military scientists have also attracted attention by debating the feasibility of creating biological weapons that might someday target populations based on their genes.
THE INEQUALITY OF HEAT
U.S. braces for calamitous, costly government shutdown in eight days
Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia
Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air
Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange is not a criminal: global poll
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
U.S. Virgin Islands cozied up to Jeffrey Epstein. Now they’re profiting from his sex crimes
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