Karen Rybold-Chin

Price for Denial, Inaction on Climate Is Higher Than Toll of Reducing Consumption

For Tad Patzek, Peak Oil - not climate change - poses the greatest risk to human health and survival on Earth. The chair of the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas and co-author with Joseph Tainter of Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma, Patzek does not deny climate change or the notion that the human use of CO2 has helped caused …

Nate Hagens: Things are not going to be as easy over the next 40 years

Recently Karen Rybold-Chin interviewed Nate Hagens, former editor of The Oil Drum and former Lehman Brothers vice president, questioning him about a future economy without growth and an environment suffering climate change. Nate Hagens asks whether ultimately - contrary to our animal nature - we are willing and able to plan for future generations by reducing our own energy consumption and …

Nate Hagens: The end of growth

WUD Society and Politics Committee, and Madison Peak Oil Group host energy/finance expert Nate Hagens for a presentation that weaves together economics, anthropology, psychology, finance, trade, energy and human behavior into a coherent story about our human social system.

David Holmgren: The reverse of globalization

Interview with David Holmgren, co-originator of permaculture. Holmgren traces the path of permaculture from its roots in the 1970s to its potential, in the future, to reshape how humans interact with the planet. He explains how its premise—working with nature rather than against it—will help us adapt to and survive in a resource-scarce world.

World oil supply debate between ex-Shell chief and ASPO-USA professor

Video of a spirited debate on peak oil between John Hofmeister (Shell) and Ted Patzek (University of Texas and ASPO-USA).

A world in trouble (Michael Ruppert interview)

Mike talks to the average citizen about where we stand in the energy crisis.