Everybody’s talking about America’s oil addiction. At a rate of
over 87 million gallons per day, America uses over one quarter of the
oil consumed worldwide. This is comparable to the amount of oil
consumed by China, India, Russia, Japan, and Germany combined.
For the worlds most influential regions, I have computed an oil
prosperity index [...]
I spent a month in Nepal during Easter break from Oxford in 2008.
This blog is a censored, heavily abridged, and reorganized version of
a journal I kept during my time there.
The UAE
I flew through Abu Dhabi, UAE, to get to Kathmandu. The UAE is a
barren landscape of sand, oil refineries, and a lot [...]
Several members of the Readership have confronted me demanding new material. I have been hesitant for a while, if not a few weeks, due to lack of stuff to talk about. In reviewing a few flagship blogs, I have decided to take the usual path of selecting some topics at random, in-so-much-as they might bear [...]
This writing is in response to a lecture panel which spoke on the topic of “Climate Change: Manageable Problem or Looming Catastrophe.” The seminar, part of a series offered by the Oxford University Environmental Change Institute for Hilary Term 2008, was given by speakers Lord Dick Taverne of the House of Lords, John Gummer of [...]