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signandsight.com - 18 days ago
Jolly eschatology
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Claus Leggewie and Harald Welzer have written a book about the end of the world as we knew it. Jan Feddersen grills them on climate change and the role of democracy in a political system that has had no new ideas since the fall of the Wall.

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Jolly eschatology
Peak Oil News — ... oil, create certain ways of thinking and it's really not very easy to think outside the box. Just try and imagine a world without oil. I recently ran though in my mind how much mopeds and cars have shaped my life, what an emotional role they have played, how these machines have inscribed themselves into my mental infrastructure. After thinking about all this for a while, I realised that I myself am the problem that has to be solved if we want to bring about successful cultural change. Sign and Sight

Drumbeat: November 7, 2009
The Oil Drum — ... to Host Sustainable Island Living Conference November 13-15 The Island Institute's second Sustainable Island Living conference, during the weekend of November 13 to 15 in downtown Rockland, features presentations by international energy consultant Matthew Simmons of Rockport and Houston on Saturday; Tom Chappell of Kennebunk, founder of Tom's of Maine, on Friday; and Roger Doiron, head of Kitchen Gardeners International, on Saturday. Jolly eschatology Look, I'll put it very simply: what they sell us as realpolitik these days is ...