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Another Letter to NPR about their lame coverage of energy and oil

Dear NPR,



I want to thank you for your coverage on Morning Edition (5-18-10) on our energy future with reference to the dangers of off-shore drilling. I was pleased that you put its obvious hazards into dialogue with the matter of our projected liquid-fuel needs. Too often we are told that we simply “need to get off oil,” or that we should just “drill-baby-drill” regardless of potential consequences. It is less common to see the two issues discussed together.



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Added by Erik Lindberg on May 18, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

The Aspiration Gap

A hardcore Plan C advocate can be aggressively unimpressed with conventional measures to conserve energy or use alternatives. The numbers themselves, can be disheartening: if we doubled the most optimistic projections for the amount of energy that solar and wind could provide by 2020, we are only up to 1% of world BOE usage.…

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Added by Erik Lindberg on May 2, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Response to Bill McKibben's Talk at UEC

I want to preface my remarks by noting that Bill's Deep Economy changed the course of my life and I feel indebted to him for articulating a feeling about economic growth that I previously hadn't the words for. He does great work and I consider him a hero of the global climate change movement.
He started his talk by reading a beautiful and moving passage from his new book, the jist of which was we need a new metaphorics to…
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Added by Erik Lindberg on April 17, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

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