U.S. public health community begins discussing peak oil
Today’s health care services rely on infrastructure and practices that depend upon petroleum. That recognition offers public health professionals a significant chance to help prepare the nation for a post-peak oil world. (Report on conference at Johns Hopkins University, with support from the Centers for Disease Control – CDC.)
May 12, 2009
The risks of Plan B
For many in the Peak Oil community…, the success of Plan B [such as President Obama’s proposed energy policies] is a long shot… The success of Plan B depends upon a series of technological breakthroughs which in turn will depend upon the availability of massive financial resources to sustain technological research over at least several decades; even more massive resources would then be required to implement the results.
January 21, 2009