Author: Gaianne

I begin by touting the site of James Howard Kuntsler, whose Daily Grunt of 18 May on the collapse of intellectual thought in the academic world will having you laughing or crying (or both).  Not my topic today, but a...

Nigeria’s oil production capacity has been cut to 631,000 barrels per day (bpd), or some 25 percent of the country’s total output, following attacks on a major pipeline belonging to Italy oil giant Agip. According to...

Remember the part early in The Handmaiden’s Tale where the women wake up to find their bank accounts are frozen?  (Also they are fired from their jobs.) Well, come next week I cannot cash checks in my own bank on my...

Three weeks ago (Thurs–TAC VIII) I tried to write about the correct relationship of life and death.  It was inadequate.  I try again.   It’s a little urgent:  Stirling Newberry writes that...

Call it the Triple Crisis.  That’s apt enough.  The parts:  politics, energy, biosphere (climate).  Each looks like a complete crisis, all by itself, but actually is generated by and linked to the other...