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
Monday, April 08, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
How melting glaciers could help stop global warming
Environmentalism could stop the clean-energy transition
Mexico breaks relations with Ecuador after embassy raid
By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
The US-China relationship appears to be warming up, but Russia could still be a sticking point
Geo-Engineering in San Francisco
The Far Right Is Crawling With Eclipse Conspiracy Theories
Everyone has lost their goddamn minds
El Salvador offering 5,000 free passports (equivalent to $5 billion in our passport program) to highly skilled scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers from abroad.
now Qatar is muscling to take the world’s number one spot. It’s doing so by funding a genocide in Darfur to gain access to resource-rich Sudan.
Why This Eclipse Could Prove Einstein Correct
Hemophilia gene therapies arrived after 40 years of struggle. Where are the patients?
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