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McPherson’s university website includes a more complete list of publications

Guest commentaries

1 March 2007 Tucson Weekly: Expect the beginning of the end of Tucson as we know it to arrive next year

28 March 2007 Arizona Daily Star: Peak oil scenario paints frightening future for all (for the university’s ludicrous response to the latter, click here; for the subsequent pseudo-apology, click here)

16 August 2007 Tucson Weekly: It’s time to close the borders–to people coming and going, to imports and exports

6 April 2008 Arizona Republic: End of the world as we know it: You might feel fine, but high oil cost, scarcity mean American Empire is about to come crashing down

The piece in the Republic led to a Live Talk Wednesday follow-up article

14 May 2009 Tucson Weekly: It’s time for me to leave my current life and start living in a post-peak-oil world

23 February 2010 Sedona Times: How will climate change & peak oil impact Sedona?

1 October 2010 Transition Voice: A climate wake-up call

1 November 2010 Transition Voice Hope springs eternal

1 December 2010 Transition Voice The road to nowhere

1 January 2011 Transition Voice Doom or Boom? Let’s do both!

3 February 2011 Transition Voice Two roads diverged

10 March 2011 Transition Voice Extinction event?

14 March 2011 Transition Voice Nuclear nightmares

14 April 2011 Transition Voice If the Earth could talk

17 May 2011 Transition Voice Blessings of a dying paradigm

13 June 2011 Transition Voice Transitioning

12 July 2011 Transition Voice Viral collapse

12 August 2011 Transition VoiceWe are the birds of prey; a marriage of contradictions

6 September 2011 Transition Voice To fight climate change, we need to understand humanity

October 2011 Conservation Biology Going back to the land in the Age of Entitlement (pdf)

7 October 2011 Transition Voice Philosophy and conservation

9 November 2011 Transition Voice Three paths to near-term human extinction

9 December 2011 Transition Voice Is terminating the industrial economy a moral act? (permalinked at Counter Currents)

2 January 2012 Transition Voice One hundred and thirty-eight in the shade (permalinked at Counter Currents)

Freelance articles

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Energy Decline Heralds End of Economic Growth, 29 March 2010

Wilderness Act a Beacon of Hope, 26 March 2010

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Full list of articles is posted at Examiner.

Collapsing economy might salvage the living planet, 18 January 2010

Optimism about oil: Will innovation or organization further the industrial age?, 16 January 2010

The end of the age of industry, 15 January 2010

Peak oil: a brief primer, 14 January 2010

The role of the university in studies of natural history, and vice versa, 13 January 2010

Wilderness Act provides hope for many species, 12 January 2010

Other articles

Foreword, The Coming Extinction of Humanity: Six Converging Crises That Threaten Our Survival, by R. J. Connors