You know we are going to run out of civilization's life-blood: fossil fuels. And if we burn what's left, the climate will tip into a mass extinction event. Meanwhile, barking madness seems to be the only growth industry. Is it time for more pills, booze, or end-time religion?
Our first guest says there may be some hope left. Shaun Chamberlin's blog is called "dark optimism" - and that may be as good as it gets. Shaun is part of the "transition movement" in Britain. He's the author of the new book "The Transition Timeline, for a local resilient future," ...and, part of an upcoming report for the British Parliament, on a scheme to give everyone an energy quota.
Read more, to get info and links on
1. getting your energy quota (TEQ’s)
2. the transition town movement around the world
3. new hope for renewable energy (from Lester Brown)
4. Americans expect collapse (Fox News trails Radio Ecoshock…)
5. student action to replace lawns with food plants at the University
Don't miss this one.
Alex
1 comment:
Alex, absolutely fine and well done show. But upon the principle that we in the Information Age just let too much of the electron deluge pass by without trying to discuss Meaning -
Kurt Cobb was brilliant, absolutely a first-rate, compelling discussion from both of you. The first speaker, Mr. Chamberlain, a good guy, but then Lester Brown -
a greenwasher extraordinaire.
He is, in a word, a fraud. His alleged concern for "the planet" masks an aggressive pro-corporate agenda. Like his sinister cohort Amory Lovins, it's always about the wonders of the "private sector," the greatness lying within the existing supersytem that will brought out, miraculously, by this fully-discredited "free market." I understand realism, I can see the power of transnational capital growing ever stronger - but there has to be some awareness, please, that serial flattery of the marauding super-rich and their untouchable resource extraction and economic inequality schemes in some fossilized Plan 27.8 is loathsome.