• About
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer

Flamminggass

Menu
  • Home
Home » Archive for April 2017
Oil production cuts: Fool me once...no, make that any number of times
LuthungZ 6:41 AM Add Comment

Oil production cuts: Fool me once...no, make that any number of times

The jawboning of oil prices by the Saudi Arabian/Russian tag team should be wearing off after more than a year of actions that don't mea...
Read More
"Reform" won't solve our biggest problems
LuthungZ 7:07 AM Add Comment

"Reform" won't solve our biggest problems

"You never cure structural defects; you let the system collapse." As I contemplated this proposition taken from a recent piece by...
Read More
Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it
LuthungZ 7:47 AM Add Comment

Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it

We modern folk are in a bind. We embrace what the sciences and the technology that flows from them have to offer, but we refuse to believe t...
Read More
Living world: Should natural entities be treated as legal persons?
LuthungZ 7:31 AM Add Comment

Living world: Should natural entities be treated as legal persons?

This year the New Zealand parliament voted to give legal personhood to a river and provided for the appointment of two guardians to represe...
Read More
Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems?
LuthungZ 7:04 AM Add Comment

Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems?

Conversations that seek genuine understanding by all sides ultimately require a common frame of reference. If we aren't talking about th...
Read More
Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)

POPULAR POSTS

  • Risk 'misunderestimated': War, sleeping pills, and the Extinction Rebellion
    One day before the presidential election in 2000, president-to-be George W. Bush told an audience in Bentonville, Arkansas that his vanquish...
  • Brexit and the energy equation
    The fretting in the financial markets after Great Britain's voters narrowly decided to leave the European Union (EU), a move dubbed Brex...
  • Saudi Arabia and the war on shale oil that never ended
    Last week when Saudi Arabia let it leak that the kingdom has no intention of leading OPEC toward another cut in production to accommodate t...
  • Deep adaptation, post-sustainability and the possibility of societal collapse
    I write this piece primarily to get you to read an academic paper that has attracted relatively widespread attention. It is entitled "D...
  • Stock hedges, home insurance, and our misunderstanding of risk
    "If you own stocks without a hedge, it's not rational." So says the world's most famous student of risk Nassim Nicholas Ta...
  • Will anything slow down the U.S. LNG juggernaut?
    It is the legally mandated purpose of a for-profit corporation to make money for its owners and to prioritize that goal above all else. So, ...
  • Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands
    In what seemed like an episode of the Norwegian television drama Occupied , Norway's largest political party joined smaller ones in the ...
  • Baumol's cost disease, productivity and the future of growth
    William Baumol, one of the most famous economists you've never heard of, died recently . Baumol's fame came out of the observation t...
  • Neoliberals know the price of everything and the value of nothing
    My father likes to say that some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The same could be said of the neoliberals of ...
  • The 100 percent renewable energy future: The good news and the bad news
    Authors Richard Heinberg and David Fridley in their recent book Our Renewable Future make the case for a society that runs on 100 percent r...

ARCHIVE BLOG

  • ►  2019 (18)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2018 (52)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (5)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ▼  2017 (48)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ▼  April (5)
      • Oil production cuts: Fool me once...no, make that ...
      • "Reform" won't solve our biggest problems
      • Split personalities: We like some science, but not...
      • Living world: Should natural entities be treated a...
      • Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about o...
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2016 (32)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (2)
Powered by Blogger.
Copyright 2016 Flamminggass All Rights Reserved
Powered by LuthungZ