The Green Files > The Timing of the Financial Crisis & Peak Oil
[JeffVail.net - Law, Energy, Geopolitics, and Organizational Theory] Except Peak Oil. The next two or three years of focus, budget, and effort fixing the financial crisis are two or three years where we aren't using oru rapidly dwindling supply of high net-energy surplus oil and gas to invest in a renewble energy infrastructure or to restructure our economy away from the demand for continual growth.
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[Nerdistan] The Fusion of Peak Oil & Climate Change: Peak Oil and Climate Change deal are two historic events for humans and life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial ways of living and the latter threatens the climatic systems that are an integral part of our world and the way we live and survive.
[Lawns to Gardens] Fixing Peak Oil Is Easy: Anyone over 30 knows that money drives politics, and money is presently tied up in oil. This will remain true until communities free themselves from the global money system and start basing values on things that matter, such as services you provide that benefit the entire community and that do not cause harm to the environment or other people.
[A to Z Energy ETF] DrumBeat: September 1, 2008: The Internet writings of John Michael Greer”beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language”have finally made their way into print. Greers searingly perceptive blog entries on peak oil, which for the past several years have enjoyed a robust online following, have now been incorporated into a single bound volume from New Society Publishers titled The Long Descent.
[Health News For All] Calorie clever: the paradox of countries once self sufficient in local, diverse, resient food sources now due to WB prompting and bribery (inter-generational Debt actually) these nations are now tettering on social & political collapse due to reliance on imported food staples..ie the Philippines now has displaced a self suffiency in rice with an export crop, cotton, which is crippling farmers,due production costs equalling international prices.
[A to Z Energy ETF] DrumBeat: August 6, 2008: The alleged bike thief has captured the attention of the Canadian press since July 16th, when police claimed to have observed him directing a thief to steal a bike for him. As the investigation spiraled out, more and more bikes were discovered in rented warehouses across Toronto.
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[Question Everything] Could the financial bailout work?: And the whole house of cards came tumbling down when oil prices started moving up. Sure investors taking their money out of financial instruments may have caused a spike in oil prices, but the overall trend had already been established.
[Suzie-Q] Beep! Beep! On The Edge Of The Event Horizon”¦: He is prominently featured in the peak oil documentary, The End of Suburbia, widely circulated on the internet. In his most recent book, The Long Emergency (2005), he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society and force Americans to live in localized, agrarian communities.
[OILISM Crude Oil Resources, Prices, History and Analysis] The Big Picture: Resource Collapse: In ”Implications of “peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate” (PDF), Hansen and colleague Pushker A. Kharecha argue that the effort to keep atmospheric carbon levels below 450ppm (widely considered the seriously bad news tipping .
[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Solving Our Water Problems - Desalination Using Solar Thermal Power: On the other hand, based on the design and experience in Tenerife, Spain, the seawater greenhouse idea seems to have been well proven for these types of climates. Not having to go through the electric generation/transmission/electric-motor steps affords enormous economic benefits as compared to the alternative.
Signal Oil and Gas - crude oil: As the cliché says, the low-hanging fruit already has been picked. Access to the worlds rich fields is dwindling for the Western oil powers.
[Survival Monkey Forums] Future prep: part1: A devastated and blasted planet is rejecting its human host and the threads of civilization are snapping everywhere you look. What we are witnesses to today is just the beginning of a long decline, slow or fast, that will shatter our common futures.
[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: January 24, 2008: When writing about peak oil and related matters in the category of doom and gloom, one encounters Nietzsches paradox: There are only two kinds of readers, those who already know, and those who will never know, so why bother? Isnt it the case that to be caught in such a circle is solid evidence of an obsessional neurosis?
[saleshq] Report: 4.2 million New 'Green' Jobs Possible: The report generally was good news for Apple, but some analysts, such as eWeeks Joe Wilcox think that Apple has hit a peak at its current price point. Wilcox wrote, “Whats next?
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