A double-header, with two “don’t miss it” interviews. We start out with Dr. Peter Ward author of the revolutionary climate book “Under A Green Sky.” Peter has just returned from an exploratory trip in Australia, and will head to Antarctica later this year. …
Experts predict Mexico, America’s number 3 oil producer, will run out of oil in just 7 years. OPEC producers have been lying about their reserves for years. The world is starting new subterranean military tensions – or outright wars – just to keep …
Those are the choices. CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK’S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOWWeek of May 30th, 2008 Guest: Michael T. Klare (new book “Rising Powers, Shrinking World”)Listen to the Ecoshock Klare interview here.(http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Klare_RisingPowers_LoFi.mp3)Read his blog at http://www.tomdispatch.com Space For Peace activist Bruce GagnonListen to the …
Even President George Bush admits we are addicted to oil. But what does that really mean? THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION Dr. Bruce Alexander, a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a pioneer researching addiction. His ideas are so unconventional, he …
This week’s program begins with a quick review of planet-shaking news. Then, we go to the book launch of “Transportation Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil” The authors are Richard Gilbert & Anthony Perl. I recorded that on March 18th, in Vancouver, …
How will we live as oil declines – and the price keeps going up? In our previous program, we ran the first hour of a speech by James Howard Kunstler, given as the first visiting scholar to the Urban Studies Program at Simon …
James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124 From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. The best speech of the year so far. Why the housing boom will not return, and what that means …