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• Advertising slogan used on a billboard in South Africa
by Daimler to promote its Smart “forfour” compact car
German Engineering, Swiss Innovation,
American Nothing.
Underpriced Risk
Privatized Gains
Socialized Losses
IBG YBG
The Regeneration
Today’s Date: 1 E.C.E.
Today’s Weather:
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
PLANET TEEN
1830, 1 billion humans
2008, 1 billion teenagers
• Energy and Natural Resources
Supply and Demand
• Petrodictatorship
• Climate Change
• Energy Poverty
• Biodiversity Loss
Shoppers, Target store, 2008
The First Law of Petropolitics
Shepard Glacier 1913
Glacier National Park, MT
Shepard Glacier 2005
Glacier National Park, MT
1.6 Billion
Students, airport parking lot,
Guinea
Murdered Silverback Gorilla In The
Congo
Amazon Deforestation
• Energy and Natural Resources
Supply and Demand
• Petrodictatorship
• Climate Change
• Energy Poverty
• Biodiversity Loss
“When we leave Iraq, it will be
the biggest transfer of air
conditioners ever known to
mankind.”
– Dan Nolan
Energy consultant to the U.S. Army
A Democratic China, or
a Banana Republic?
B A N A N A
Build Absolutely Nothing
Anywhere Near Anything