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Things might not be so dire after all!
First published in the RADIX THINK TANK For some time, I thought our shrinking economy would eventually save the world. But I have been reluctant to say so for fear of being seen as more eccentric than usual. A recent comment by Tim Morgan in his Surplus Energy blog has encouraged me to have my…
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THE UNDERSTANDING’S SLOWLY DAWNING THAT OUR CIVILIZATION’S IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
The Coming Age of Climate Despair THE UNDERSTANDING’S SLOWLY DAWNING THAT OUR CIVILIZATION’S IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY by umair haque Everyone, meet 2023’s latest villain: the doomer. What you might call doomer-shaming now fills the pages of august newspapers, from the Guardian to the Washington Post. Bad Doomer! They cry. Don’t you know it’s not…that…
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Half Buried Greenhouses
Extract from discussion in the Surplus Energy blog: A friend of mine in Texas is building a large half-buried greenhouse. Putting the plants down in the ground several feet gives them the more stable climate they need. The trick was widely used in what is now southern Russia. But it was very labor intensive. The…
