All Blog Posts Tagged 'Transition' (3)

This will be a two part reflection on the recent Energy Bulletin skirmish between Rob Hopkins and John Michael Greer. In part 1, submitted here, I offer what is likely a fairly pedestrian response to their volleys. Like many others, I don’t think the differences between the two rise to the level of the rhetoric they have begun to employ. I…

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I gained a valuable insight from the recent New York Times article about Peak Oil and the Transition Movement, but this was not insight about the subject matter itself. What I learned was that even in a time of a great oil and environmental catastrophe, even the New York Times cannot address these crucial issues head-on, but only by embedding them in a personal interest story about a vaguely kooky and self-deprecating “doomer” who’s latest “obsession” has managed mainly, it appears, to annoy… Continue

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