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Jason Bradford In this edition of The Reality Report host Jason Bradford interviews Nate Hagens. Topics in this program highlight how the current financial melt down and impact the timing and severity of peak oil and natural gas–including the dreaded “natural gas cliff” as rigs go idle due to low prices. We discuss whether this means economic growth now over, and if so, how should societies adjust?
Ben Gisin is co-founder and publisher of Touch the Soil magazine, an agricultural magazine promoting resilient agricultural practices. He speaks with Jason Bradford about the crumbling industrial agricultural system and its close relationship with the global economy.
Key developing countries have long been exempt from efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now, as global climate talks move forward, that policy must change.
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Roubini on peak oil
Canadian farm energy study acknowledges peak oil
Oil Rises, Oil Falls – The History of Oil Meets the Perfect Energy Trifecta
Global energy investment hit by financial crisis
Deflation, Reflation and Our Oil Future
The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
Hundreds of thousands protest in France
Economic woes at heart of French strike
Efficient market hypothesis is dead – for now
Depression Or Recovery — What’s In the Cards?
A City Made of Waste
Independence vs Splendid Isolation
EntropyPawsed Uses “A Pattern Language”
Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage
ITER: Flagship fusion reactor could cost twice as much as budgeted
Renewable energy in New Zealand (video)
This new year brought another new feeling for me too, of having come to the end of a long string of questions. I’d spent so many years in hot pursuit of answers that I was suddenly at a standstill looking around wondering where I was headed or had I, in fact, arrived?
There are numerous indications that world oil production peaked in July 2008. So says Uppsala Professor of Physics Kjell Aleklett. According to him, the theory that oil production is on a downward path is gaining more and more supporters.
This overview of our economic future relates to the “peak oil” issue in a very straightforward way. Oil demand and prices will remain depressed during the deflationary period (2008 Quarter III–?) and then rebound as they did in recent years when inflation takes hold again.
Most current efforts at social change, in and out of the peak oil community, take their direction from ideologies that claim to point the way to a better world. Is an approach drawing on the insights of human ecology potentially a better gamble?
