Articles by David Roberts

Reasonable people largely agree about what we should be doing

There's a short-but-great exchange today in the Wall Street Journal on the subject of peak oil. You have to subscribe to read it there, but PeakOil has reprinted it in full.

It's a conversation between James Hamilton, an economist at UC San Diego (blog here), and Robert Kaufmann of Boston U's Center for Energy & Environmental Studies (what, no blog?!). Generally speaking, Kaufmann favors government intervention in markets to prepare for peak oil, and Hamilton favors letting the free market sort it out. But neither is dogmatic or shrill, and the exchange is quite enlightening, ending in a surprising degree of agreement.

Below the fold is a play-by-play.

Let’s save our environment

Funniest thing ever? Possibly.

(Thanks to reader Brian B.)

Liberality

Are you worried that our future is a long, grim struggle for remaining fossil-fuel resources, with an ever-widening gap between global have's and have-not's?

Apparently you're worried about all the wrong stuff.

(via TAPPED)

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