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  Best laid plans

  Renewable energies now contribute approximately twice what they contribued in 1850 (percentage-wise). Modern industrial civilization runs of fossil fuels, without equivocation. Those fuels are set to diminish and will not be supplanted or substituted in kind with renewables. Energy scarcity is the future. That is the future reality that we should be addressing.On Greenpeace assesses the carbon footprint of Obama's stimulus plan posted 9 months ago 5 Responses

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  "move beyond the era of fossil fuels" ?

  Surely Mr. Davies jests.
  On Greenpeace assesses the carbon footprint of Obama's stimulus plan posted 9 months ago 5 Responses

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  If you believe

  that we need to be most of the way to zero by 2020 or 2030 (or 2050 for that matter), I'd start thinking about Plan B, or somewhere on down the alphabet.
  On We need to cut emissions faster than 80 percent by 2050, but how fast? posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 39 Responses

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  Yup, peak oil

  appears to me to be the most immediate threat to industrial societies.

  That's not to say that global warming may not have more dire and far-reaching consequences, but I don't think we're looking at anywhere near the same time frames. I would not dismiss the global cultural dislocations and dramatic consequences for human populations that may occur as the result of peak oil.

  Or, as George Carlin opined, this may all just be nature's way of shrugging us all off.On The energy and climate challenge for Obama posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 3 Responses

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  "Salad. It's what food eats"

  Saw that on a t-shirt a few years back.On Grist cooks lunch for America's leading food writer posted 10 months ago 11 Responses