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any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Category: Energy Matters
The twentieth century way of life has been made available, largely due to the miracle of cheap energy. The price of energy has been at record lows for the past century and a half.As oil becomes increasingly scarce, it is becoming obvious to everyone, that the rapid economic and industrial growth we have enjoyed for that time is not sustainable.Now, the hunt is on. For renewable sources of energy, for alternative sources of energy, for a way of life that is less dependent on cheap energy.Â
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I won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes untenable D TrumpNearly 15,000 immigrant children are being held in a network of detention centres across the US.
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The accumulation of heating the earth leads to this ………….. Between 2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that the world was beginning to turn a corner.
Trump’s trade tweet leaves out the big one – the Petro-Yuan
Although apparently random and etiquette busting, Trump’s tweets are carefully calculated to evoke particular responses. One message that is notably absent from all the bluster about Chinese trade is any discussion of China trading oil in Yuan. While the mainstream press argues that this is because it does not matter, a long term reading of Continue Reading →
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My question: why bother to reduce fossil fuels if we do nothing to the major forcing: population?
The John James Newsletter 259 17 November 2018
We just ended the hottest summer on record. We have fuels that are in critical drought state. This is the sixth year of seven years of drought.