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[OILISM Crude Oil Prices, History and Analysis] The Peak Oil Crisis: The Transition: run-away climate, super volcano, or a really virulent germ could, in fact, do in the higher forms of life. Should any of these misfortunes occur, however, history suggests we will be back within a few million or tens of millions of years so there really is nothing to worry about.
[Energy and Peak Oil] James Kunstler visits Seattle.: The Seattle Peak Oil Awareness group is grateful to James Kunstler for his magnificent work to save and protect our environment, and his efforts to reverse humans destructive actions towards the planet in an attempt that future .
[anz] Global Warming & Peak Oil Negate Conventional Wisdom: Oil does not run out, but supply can no longer expand to meet increasing demand due to technical constraints, irrespective of the oil price. The peak may well manifest itself as an undulating plateau for some years, as demand is destroyed by, for example, developing countries backing out of the oil market, but cheap energy is unlikely to reappear.
[Green Blog] It’s capitalism or a habitable planet - you can’t have both: And he believes that “the only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change.” There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other won’t do it.
[No Distraction!] Planet Titanic - From Hubris to Hell (Introduction): In the coming decade, technology diffusion complexity will only increase, as the critical tipping point of Peak Oil becomes a devastating reality that none of us can ignore as it destroys the structure and vastly reduces the intensity .
[Public Polity] Death of Suburbia?: Some other ideas include making neighbourhoods more walkable, decentralisation of service provision and shopping opportunities (ditching the suburban Westfield in favour of a network of IGAs, for example), increased public recreational space such as parks and bikeways and other such methods for bringing people together. Not all residents will be able to work within such communities, but providing the necessary public transport ought to cut the reliance on driving.
[Prismatique's Weblog] Machiavelli and Marx Debate Iraq: Iraq’s population is comprised of a Shia majority, many of whom are among its poorest citizens, a Sunni minority, from which most of the wealthiest Iraqis were drawn, a large Kurdish minority in the north, small rural communities ruled by warlords, and other, numerically insignificant, ethnic or religious populations, including Chistians. With so many divergent groups having divergent interests, the Baathists’ industrialization program inevitably did serious injury to one or another of them at various times, particularly the Shia and the Kurds.”
[Sustainabilitank] Charie Hall’s Baloon Graph That Teaches Us That We Need To Reduce ...: To live anything like we now live, we are going to have to see some astounding technical breakthroughs in alternative energy sources soon. And those breakthroughs will have to be followed by dramatic and costly efforts to deploy alternatives rapidly and ubiquitously.
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: This post reproduces the report’s discussion of why peak oil and climate change must be treated together”¦ The dominant theme of their report, and indeed their purpose behind it, is to recognize a climate and sustainability emergency, .
[edstrong.blog-city.com] Capitalism Causes Climate Change: The very model of the supermarket is unsustainable, what with the packaging, food miles and destruction of British farming. Small, independent suppliers, processors and retailers or community-owned shops selling locally produced food provide a social glue and reduce carbon emissions.
[a_steep_hill] The Freakonomics of Peak Oil: I wish the freakonomists were there with me during my various travels -- from Mexico to Greece to Alaska -- where I saw communities of various scales abandoned and in ruins because the populace couldn't find at sufficient cost and quantities the resources they have come to depend upon, from water to arable soil to fish in the sea to mineable minerals. What if the vast literature dedicated to discussing the inadequacy of all currently known putative replacements for cheap oil has a point?
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