Lundberg on the recent Peak Oil conferences
Coverage and commentary from a long-time activist on the two Peak Oil conferences earlier in May in Washington D.C.
Overshoot
Peak oil – May 18
Bartlett: a prophet without honor in Congress / Rep. Bartlett’s latest talk to Congress / Global oil output to peak in 2010 – Diapason / Saudi Aramco to boost oil reserves by 25% / Kunstler interview / Review of current speculative thinking on collapse
China unveils new plan to lift reserves of strategic metals
The Chinese government has announced what appears to be a new plan to stockpile strategic commodities.
Peak oil: powerdown or collapse?
Those who write about the future from the perspective of peak oil fall along a spectrum ranging from life-as-we-know-it with hydrogen cars to most-have-died-off from oil wars, famine, and disease with the remainder living in scattered tribes on subsistence agriculture.
Community survival during the coming energy decline
Imagine community life in a Peak Oil world. Are ecovillages, sustainable communities, and organized eco-neighborhoods prepared?
Population, Resources, and Human Idealism
If we want peace, democracy, and human rights, we must work to create the ecological condition essential for these things to exist: i.e., a stable human population at — or slightly less than — the environment’s long-term carrying capacity.
Satan in the driver’s seat
Mel Gibson’s portrayal of Satan in “The Passion of the Christ” is the one in the driver’s seat of our modern, petroleum-based civilization careening toward the cliff that is Peak Oil while we all look out the window and enjoy the scenery.
Field of nightmares: A conversation with climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert
No writing about global warming has had more impact over the past year than a series of closely observed pieces in “The New Yorker” by Elizabeth Kolbert, which have now been collected and expanded into a book. The book ends with these chilling words: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
Peak oil – Apr 11
World ‘cannot meet oil demand’ /
OPEC warns high commodity prices may kill oil projects /
New ASPO-USA newsletter /
Toward a new vision for Hamilton (PO & cities) /
Energy philosophy for entropic times /
The Darwin Award for self-extinction goes to…
Environment – Apr 8
U.S. energy companies call for caps on carbon emissions /
Texas professor criticized over comments about pandemic /
The Worldchanging newsstand /
Big Gav does global warming /
Global warmers: American Electric Power /
Australian CEOs on climate risks /
Heat rising at the Washington Post (scientist bashing)
Environment – Apr 1
Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world /
China grapples with growing water shortages /
Soil crisis is holding back African recovery /
Interior Department spins wetlands data /
New NASA policy backs free discussion by scientists /
Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble /
Global warming’s cost to Canada /
Environmental restoration in the age of climate change
Beyond petroleum?
In Bush’s state of the union address we all heard him say the words “addicted to oil”. I was elated for the rest of the week. I know, I know. This doesn’t mean he’ll actually do anything about it, but at least we can now hear the problem addressed from all fronts.