New Models of Nature & Biology

How does Bacevich explain American geopolitics in the middle-east? How do American consumption practices relate to American foreign policy, in his view? How do you think his background as a US Army Officer influenced his position on the recent history of “America’s War for the Greater Middle-East"? How does Mitchell explain the transition from coal to petroleum? How, in Mitchell's view, is coal “more democratic” than petroleum? What has been the effect of discounting the true cost of petroleum for economic development, in Mitchell's analysis of the “invention of the economy” as an object of scientific
study and policy action? Finally, who was M. King Hubbert and how is his concern over petroleum exhaustion rooted in his professional experience? When was he writing, and what were the primary concems of American policymakers at the time? At what stage was the global petroleum economy at when Hubbert wrote his essay on “Energy from Fossil Fuels’?