Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Paul Roth MD Dr Paul Roth reports on a presentation by Mary McKeem, Director of Public Health Practice at the Marion County Health Department: “The effects of oil depletion on public health systems will be profound and we must plan to prepare for this impending crisis.”
Viscount Monckton: Climate chaos? Don’t believe it /
Monbiot: Believe it! /
RealClimate: Cuckoo science
TOD: Why we (really) may have entered an oil production plateau /
Twilight in China /
Peak oil at Boston conference /
Dead Dinosaurs – todays’s WSJ coverage /
Peak oil guidebook for sustainable living /
More peak oil readership – Hello Kazakhstan and Mongolia!
A growing trend in corporations is to actively pursue plans and policies to address GHG emissions. This trend is not being driven by the widespread acceptance of the science behind climate change but rather by the business case for improving bottom-line results.
UN report to offer climate change evidence /
For sale: CO2 by the ton /
‘Obscenity’ of carbon trading /
Cash row looms at climate talks /
David Miliband at the UN climate change conference
The modern equivalent of “the muck called gold” is a body of rock called, affectionately, the Canadian tar sands. In the rush to develop these resources, people are becoming “clean mad” (although the development is not so clean).
If we look two or three or four decades into the future, we know that hydrocarbons alone will not meet the needs of a growing world economy. Even with all the technical expertise the world could offer and all the political will it could muster, eventually, we will run out of oil. And, even before then, the price of a dwindling supply will be prohibitive. At present, our world is overly focused on, and overly dependent upon, one source of energy. And that path is unsustainable.
ASPO-Australia member James Ward reports that peak oil is reaching acceptance amongst many of Australia’s business and government elites.
A voice for change echoes across the land. Energy policy even earned more than lip service in many races. Yet the ink on the e-vote tally wasn’t even dry when Detroit’s own Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), ranking member in line to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee, declared that he wouldn’t raise fuel-efficiency standards for U.S. automobiles. …This is nuts.
A new study states that the water supply required for Canadian Oil sands production is unsustainable. Environmental damages related to bitumen production could eventually affect an area the size of England.
When it comes to taking action on climate change, the focus always seems to be on what each of us can do personally. Perhaps you, too, are wondering what part business, industry and governments have to play?
I suspect that our site (peakoil.com), along with some others have been taken off the filtered site list in China’s firewall. This probably represents a change in policy for China. We welcome our Chinese visitors of course & hope to bring them into the conversation.
