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World Energy in 2040.

The latest trend toward fossil fuels is dangerous for the entire planet, since China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

This mega-bestseller has been attacked repeatedly since its publication forty years ago, but its warnings about the climate were alarmingly prescient. 

For decades, the World Bank pushed privatization of the power industry and assumed that energy services would "trickle down" to the poor.

Why is United States in an especially precarious position when it comes to energy?

Is dirty energy the only way to meet the huge demands of the modern world? New numbers suggest renewables could do the job—and more.

James Howard Kunstler discusses how finance and energy are running neck and neck to fuel the end of advanced industrial civilization.

If the administration is serious about renewable energy, why won't it put solar panels on the roof of the White House?

Can we calculate the true cost of our dependence on oil?

How we can break our addiction to oil. With contributions from Michael T. Klare, Christian Parenti, Mark Hertsgaard and Christine MacDonald.