Dale Allen Pfeiffer (March 30, 1958) is a geologist and writer from Michigan, U.S. who investigated and wrote about energy depletion and potential future resource wars. He also wrote about class war, sustainability, direct action and the environment. He is also an anarchist activist and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. In 1999, he was one of the organizers of a hunger strike to provide medical care for the incarcerated Leonard Peltier.[1]
In 2001 he began writing articles regarding energy at From The Wilderness. In 2003 he wrote their often cited article on peak oil and food production titled Eating Fossil Fuels.[2] In 2005 he ended his association with the website and its founder, Michael C. Ruppert. In 2006, he expanded the Eating Fossil Fuels article into a book.[3]
Pfeiffer believed that energy depletion will have a major impact upon the socioeconomic system that will not be resolved by turning to renewable energy alone. Through mathematical modeling, he predicted that energy consumption has grown to the point that we will never sustain our current consumption levels without plentiful and cheap fossil fuels.
He argued that we must cut our consumption, abandoning the current socioeconomic system in favor of re-localization, sustainability and decentralization. He believed it is possible for human society to achieve equitable, sustainable stability while maintaining a reasonable quality of life. To reach this goal, he recommended direct action on a grassroots level, as opposed to a reliance upon government and business.
In 2007, he retired from writing nonfiction. Since that time, he has been busy writing fiction under a pen name (PD Allen). In 2022, he came out as transgender. In 2023, she had her name and gender legally changed to Ellen-Adele Harper, female. In 2024, she had her genes karotyped and discovered that she is intersex, having XXY genes, a condition known as Klinefelter. Ms. Harper is now a published author, noted poet, a trans and intersex activist, a model, and a performance artist.
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|thumb|alt= A picture of Ellen-Adele Harper, transgender and intersex woman|Ellen-Adele Harper, January 2024]]
Published books
editAs Dale Allen Pfeiffer
- The End of the Oil Age (2004)
- Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture (2006), New Society Publishers
As PD Allen
- Complete Tales of da Yoopernatural (2011)
- Fiddlesticks (2012)
- Murderer's Sky; Book One of Under Shattered Skies (2012)
- Daemon Sky; Book Two of Under Shattered Skies (2012)
- Mourning Sky; Book Three of Under Shattered Skies (2013)
- Earth Seeds (2013)
- Song of Existence (2013)
- The Complete Quantum Meditations (2014)
As Ellen-Adele Harper
- Fever Dreams; transgender and shamanic poetry (2022), Transient Press
- The Bhagavad Gita; a new translation (2022), Transient Press
- Prison Psalms; poems from beyond these walls (2022), Transient Press
- Transformer; more than meets the eye (2023), Transient Press
- Sanatana Dharma; a survey of Hinduism (2024), Transient Press
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Join the Leonard Peltier Solidarity Fast". January 21, 1999. Archived from the original on 2004-05-30.
- ^ "Eating Fossil Fuels". FromTheWilderness.com. October 3, 2003. Archived from the original on June 6, 2004.
- ^ Pfeiffer, Dale Allen (2006). Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture. New Society. ISBN 9780865715653.