The high cost of oil is driving the public and politicians to adopt policies that the environmentalist movement has opposed for the past 40 years.
Paul Kennedy is listing the multiple global reversals in reaction to global warming and even despite of it:

The major return of many governments to nuclear power – with dozens of new [...]

“Oil, ethanol, land and water have produced a moment of Brazilian alchemy. Energy is the country’s new brand.”
Roger Cohen, senior IHT-columnist, wants his readers to leave their treadmills of thinking, of judging and of making decisions in a world of changed energy-supply and -demand.
He is fascinated by the Brazilian way of economic development as well as [...]