Eight ways that modern medicine is oil dependent
Most
of our
modern medical system is oil-dependent, just like the rest of
society. Oil has been so cheap for so long that it has become a
pervasive presence in health care delivery.
China – July 26
China to face energy security crisis by 2010: forecast /
China pursues renewable energy, water and healthcare goals /
China Wind Power Boom May Bust Without Policy Change /
Lord Browne: China and the World Economy: Prospects and Challenges
Biofuels – July 26
Green energy: ethanol and biodiesel / Redesigning life to make ethanol / Biofuel demand creates chain reaction in crop prices / Ethanol’s rise prompts worries of a corn crunch / Agency seeks to develop military aviation biofuel
Climate policy – July 26
Australia: States begin setting own greenhouse targets / King County (Washington) to join carbon credit exchange / Australian policy on climate change is mostly hot air / We’re all heading for the fiery furnace if we go on taking these cheap flights
Housing – July 26
How U.S. homes are hurt by rising energy prices / Price appreciation at a 10-year low as existing-home sales soften / The housing & transportation affordability index (they are related!) / Earth homes make for affordable housing
Economics – July 26
‘Slow motion’ oil shock / Soaring bills ‘pushing millions into fuel poverty’ in UK / Is there an oil ‘bubble’? / Russia’s Yukos oil company declared insolvent / Poor countries bear up under oil price strain – IMF
Peak Oil and Community Food Security
As evidence accumulates foretelling the imminent shock of “petrocollapse,” one central concern of communities – including organized neighborhoods and small towns – should be the safety and continuity of their food supply.
The guns of August (redux)
The best students of peak oil currently put the peak somewhere between last December and 1,500 days hence. Moreover, Hezbollah vs. Israel has an excellent potential to spin out of control resulting at best in a significant reduction in Middle East oil exports.
Bakhtiari addresses the Australian Senate Committee
“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
Portland prepares peak oil briefing book
In May 2006, Portland City Council created a Peak Oil Task Force to develop recommendations on appropriate responses to uncertainties in the supply and affordability of oil. City staff developed this 94-page set of background materials intended to provide an overview of the peak oil issue.
Peak oil – July 25
Harper’s Magazine covers peak oil movement /
Peak Oil and Michigan’s Energy Future /
Why It’s Hard to Debate a Cornucopian /
Jay Hanson and DieOff.org /
Power for the people: what sort of energy? /
How Cuba survived its oil shock /
Canada: People may have to pick eating over heating
Oceans and climate – July 25
Institute of Science in Society ocean series:
Oceans in Distress /
Oceans and Global Warming /
Oceans: Carbon Sink or Source? /
Acid Oceans /
Abrupt Plankton Shifts /
Global Warming and Plankton /
Plus: Undersea gas could speed global warming – study /
Warmer waters disrupt Pacific food chain
