Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Martin Payne It appears that demand destruction may mask the reality of Peak Oil for a time, perhaps for a few years. This “stay of execution” is an important opportunity that should not be wasted… Despite my personal aversion to additional government involvement, the fact of the matter is that we face both an economic abyss, and an energy abyss.
Say Goodbye to Peak Oil
Meeting the Energy Challenge-Heinberg & Darley (video and audio)
Oil Prices in 2009 – two views
US oil production at lowest level since 1946-gov’t
Next 20 years will see rapid changes – Ireland’s Sargent
Scottish councils urged to get into peak oil practice
New deal offers an alternative to global fatalism
Mid week update including:
– Financial turmoil
The Candidates and climate: a persistant air of surreality
Debate fact check is offshore drilling the answer?
The myth of election year manipulation of oil price
Latin leftists gloating over ‘Comrade’ Bush’s bailout
New U.S. intelligence report warns ‘victory’ not certain in Iraq
I was struck by how eerily similar are the now admitted journalistic lapses and the failure to connect the dots in the financial story to what we have been witnessing in the media’s coverage of peak oil. The heart of Kurtz’s apologia in the Washington Post is the troubling question “Why didn’t they see this coming?”
It had seemed abundantly clear over the year beginning mid 2007 that rampant economic development in less developed countries, along with the maintenance of economic development in more developed countries, spooked the oil markets. After all both China and India were growing economically at around 10% level.
However, that may be changing.
Several of us who have been watching the world oil production and depletion picture closely for the last few years are now concluding that the world has now seen the highest rate of production ever… The worldwide financial crisis, and the decline in available energy, mean that we may also have seen the final year of aggregate world economic growth.
All distant problems are not created equally
The Age of Unbridled Consumption Just Ended
Herman Daly on the Credit Crisis, Financial Assets, and Real Wealth
Fall of the technological world
End use of fossil fuels in 20 years, UK warned
First council since Second World War set up to look at food security
EU climate change cuts: Poland leads revolt over Russia fears
Dirty coal power hit by Euro vote
This green subsidy for car makers is just a disguised corporate bail-out
Saving gas, beyond the car
Carrying Copenhagen: the wonders of the cargo bike
The futureproofers
Rural communities best equipped to cope with climate change: UN report
World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience – Growing the Wealth of the Poor
Natural healing
