Professor Goodstein discusses lowering oil reserves
Lateline interview with David Goodstein, professor of physics and author of Out of Gas – the End of the Age of Oil.
Overshoot
Apocalypse Denial
Even those Americans who don’t care to — and still don’t have to — peer over the wall already essentially know what’s on the other side. That’s the nature of denial. After all, you can’t deny what you don’t, at heart, know to be so.
The Mideast ‘bomb’ no one talks about
In a few decades, many OPEC nations in the Middle East will have such large populations that they could end up consuming much or all of the energy they now export, suggests Matthew Simmons, an oil consultant in Houston.
The End is Near
Fossil fuels, so easily set alight! Yes, and as Bush and Kerry are out campaigning, we are presently touching off nearly the very last whiffs and drops and chunks of them. All lights are about to go out.
Update on an old warning: Beware the coming shortages
Dennis Meadows warned 32 years ago that the world would run short of resources within a century, putting the planet at risk of expanding hunger as well as economic and social disaster. Today, that danger is more imminent, says Mr. Meadows, one of the authors of “The Limits to Growth,” a book published in 1972 and now just updated.
WWF Report Warns of Looming ‘Budget Deficit’ with Nature
People are consuming the earth’s natural resources 20
percent faster than nature can renew them–a dangerous imbalance that is
fueling the loss of species and may lead to critical resource shortages
in the years ahead, according to a World Wildlife Fund study released on
Thursday.
420 Million: America’s New Population Boom
Just like rising energy demand, global warming, and racial distrust, America’s population boom is escaping serious attention from both presidential candidates. This is happening —or rather, not happening — even though the United States is growing more rapidly than it ever has before.
Interview with Dennis Meadows, Co-Author Limits to Growth 30 Year Update (audio)
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of overshoot likely to occur in the current century.
How to Bring Down Civilisation
Derrick Jensen thinks the collapse of civilisation, be it deliberate or through oil depletion or any other means, can only be a good thing for the planet.
Peak Oil and Depopulating Asia
When Bush seized Iraq – using Saddam as an excuse – it was the first step in an endgame for the remaining oil reserves necessary for the American way of life. According to Stan Doffish, this horrible logic may lead the Bush administration to attempt to ‘depopulate’ Asia
Southern Africa Faces Food, Water Crises – Study
Southern Africa faces major challenges to feed its swelling populations and to keep its wells from running dry, a study showed.
Hegemony or Survival?
In Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky suggested that our leaders, facing the choice in the book’s title, might well opt for hegemony over survival.