Oilquake In The Middle East, By Michael Klare

Oilquake In The Middle East, By Michael Klare

In other words, if one traces a reasonable trajectory from current developments in the Middle East, the handwriting is already on the wall. Since no other area is capable of replacing the Middle East as the world’s premier oil exporter, the oil economy will shrivel — and with it, the global economy as a whole.

Slow Money: Reconnecting The Economy to Soil, Biodiversity, and Food Quality, By Woody Tasch

Slow Money: Reconnecting The Economy to Soil, Biodiversity, and Food Quality, By Woody Tasch

As long as money accelerates around the planet, divorced from where we live, our befuddlement will continue. As long as the way we invest is divorced from how we live and how we consume, our befuddlement will worsen. As long as the way we invest uproots companies, putting them in the hands of a broad, shallow pool of absentee shareholders whose primary goal is the endless growth of their financial capital, our befuddlement at the depletion of our social and natural capital will only deepen.