Energy Predicament

Notes Toward a Better Understanding of Six Intersecting Pieces of the Energy Puzzle: Climate Change, Peak Resources, Nuclear Proliferation, Food Security, Speculative Finance, and Geopolitics

June 8, 2011

Arable Land and World Population


From the Dupont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation and Productivity for the 21st Century: Report and Recommendations
Posted by DCH at 6/08/2011
Labels: H. Food and Water

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I taught international relations and American foreign policy at Colorado College from 1983 to 2020.

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I worked on this blog intermittently from 2008 to 2015. I used some of the material in courses taught at Colorado College in the 2010s, especially "Smiling Through the Apocalypse." For seniors only, taken in their final block at CC, it had a lot of grim material. On the other hand, the students did a lot of smiling. Most of the RSS feeds are no longer working, but I leave them up as an historical curiosity. October 23, 2026

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  • Basic Documents on Climate Change
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  • Climate Policy Initiative Report
  • Colin Campbell Speech to House of Commons, 1999
  • Colorado College: State of the Rockies
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  • Grantham Center
  • Interactive: The Global Oil Diet
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  • Matt Simmons on Peak Oil
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  • Spencer Weart: The Discovery of Global Warming
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  • World Bank: Consequences of Global Warming

Preface

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Table of Contents

  • A. Introduction (3)
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  • C. Capital Markets (48)
  • D. Patterns of Dependence (12)
  • E. Climate Change (79)
  • E. Climate Skeptics (13)
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  • K. Infrastructure (5)
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  • M. Natural Gas (37)
  • N. Coal (21)
  • O. Tar Sands (13)
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  • R. Consumption and Efficiency (29)
  • S. Population (2)
  • T. Pandemics (5)

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