• 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