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 10, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Fact-checking GOP Trump fliers flooding swing-state mailboxes
Southern California Line Fire explodes in size; Nevada fire forces evacuations
‘Unschooling’ parents put their kids in charge of their own educations. Are they actually learning?
Say’s Law is usually abbreviated as ‘supply creates demand.’ You make a nice loaf of bread. You sell it for a dollar. Now you have a dollar’s worth of ‘money.’ Before making the bread, you have nothing.
And if it only cost you ninety cents — in labor and materials — to make the bread... you made a 10% profit. This extra, value-added, represents not only the wealth you added for yourself, but additional wealth for the whole world. Where previously it had ninety cents worth of raw ingredients (including your labor), now it has a loaf of bread worth $1.
There is a common trope in journalism about the Arctic—that the melting of polar ice is setting up a geopolitical competition over resources that evokes the “Great Game,” the nineteenth-century British and Russian rivalry in Central and South Asia. But when I set out to report on that narrative, in early 2022, it quickly unravelled. What came into focus instead was far more urgent and ominous: an espionage war at the Arctic border of Norway and Russia, centered on preparations for nuclear war.
Rep. Goldman: 'It's inexcusable' NYC hasn't released documents about 9/11 air quality
Marketing Firm Admits Spying Through Phones
South Korea finds mothers were forced to give up babies for adoption abroad
‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
‘I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption’: controversial Netanyahu doc screens at Toronto
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