Ellen-Adele Harper (born Dale Allen Pfeiffer, March 30, 1958) is a geologist and writer from

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

, United States. She has investigated and wrote about energy depletion and potential future resource wars. She also wrote about class war,

sustainability Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): env ...

direct action Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals. The aim of direct action is to either obstruct a certain practice (such as a governm ...

and the environment. She is also an

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...

activist and a member of the

Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, United States in 1905. The nickname's origin is uncertain. Its ideology combines general unionism with indu ...

. In 1999, She was one of the organizers of a hunger strike to provide medical care for the incarcerated Leonard Peltier.

Career

2000s

In 2001 She began writing articles regarding energy at From The Wilderness. In 2003 she wrote their often cited article on

peak oil Peak oil is the point when global oil production reaches its maximum rate, after which it will begin to decline irreversibly. The main concern is that global transportation relies heavily on gasoline and diesel. Adoption of electric vehicles ...

and food production titled ''Eating Fossil Fuels''. In 2005 she ended her association with the website and its founder, Michael C. Ruppert. In 2006, she expanded the ''Eating Fossil Fuels'' article into a book. In 2007, she retired from writing nonfiction. Since that time, she has been busy writing fiction under a pen name (PD Allen).

2020s

In 2022, she came out as

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

. 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 Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binar ...

, having XXY genes, a condition known as

Klinefelter syndrome Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is a chromosome anomaly where a male has an extra X chromosome. These complications commonly include infertility and small, poorly functioning testicles (if present). These symptoms are often n ...

. Ms. Harper is now a published author, noted poet, a transgender and intersex activist, a model, and a performance artist.

Views

Energy

Ms. Harper 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, she predicted that energy consumption has grown to the point that we will never sustain our current consumption levels without plentiful and cheap

fossil fuels A fossil fuel is a flammable carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the buried remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants or microplanktons), a process that occurs within geologica ...

Society

She argued that we must cut our consumption, abandoning the current socioeconomic system in favor of re-localization, sustainability and

decentralization Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and gi ...

. She believed it is possible for human society to achieve equitable, sustainable stability while maintaining a reasonable

quality of life Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards ...

. To reach this goal, she recommended direct action on a grassroots level, as opposed to a reliance upon government and business.

Published books

As 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

References

External links

* From the Wildernes

* The Complete Mountain Sentine

* Another Leonard Peltier fast statemen

* The Nature of Actio

* How Much Energy do We Consume

* List of published books by Dale Allen Pfeiffer/PD Alle

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