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How do our metaphors for Peak Oil direct our thought about its severity? This essay examines this question and others that relate to Peak Oil preparations and the debate within the peaknik community about how bad it might get.
Scenarios are dire, but solutions may be surprisingly easy.
Orlov: What can young professionals and aging baby boomers do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Orlov: What can young people do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Surviving The Oil Crash: Leadership And Social Structure
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Resiliency & Collapse
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”.
Financial columnist Scott Burns on peak oil
Geophysicist Klaus Lackner on Fueling the Future
Roscoe Bartlett interview
A simpler way to calculate global oil reserves?
Some insiders reject ‘peak-oil theory’
Oil supply conjecture grips industry
Will putting in fluorescent light bulbs and starting a window herb garden really help you if there’s a crash? Here are some nitty gritty suggestions for Peakniks…
Was the cause of the cataclysmic collapse of the Soviet Union really the result of communist inefficiency and U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s Cold War military build up? Or was there an oil crisis that shocked the Soviet system?
‘Limits to Growth’ was criticised for predicting that oil would run out and for being wrong in that prediction. However, oil depletion is not mentioned once in the original 1972 report, this is a completely bogus criticism.
“Female, age 40, seeks wild, swinger male for procreation purposes, no commitments. Bonobo preferred but regular chimpanzee acceptable.”
…Let us drop the conceit that these are “problems,” and that they can be “fixed.” Let us instead try an experiment: let us dissociate from human history, and free-associate our way into the next chapter of natural history, which, let us bravely assume, a member of our ecologically challenged species will still be on hand to narrate.
The question for a future with ecological limits becomes: What shall we do with this powerful force of envy which has been awakened across the globe? How will people, both the rich and those aspiring to greater wealth, come to grips with limits which will undermine the consumer society within which that envy flourishes?
ared Diamond calls it “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.” Bill Mollison says that it can “destroy whole landscapes.” Are they describing nuclear energy? Suburbia? Coal mining? No. They are talking about agriculture.
