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The most straightforward way to get your municipality engaged on responding to our energy predicament is a resolution. The resolution calls for peak oil to be considered a serious issue, a city wide assessment funded by the mayor to be undertaken, and the oil depletion protocol to be endorsed.
Bartlett: a prophet without honor in Congress / Rep. Bartlett’s latest talk to Congress / Global oil output to peak in 2010 – Diapason / Saudi Aramco to boost oil reserves by 25% / Kunstler interview / Review of current speculative thinking on collapse
Jeff Vail: The Great Game / Klare: Less oil, more wars / Thomas Friedman lays out his “laws of petropolitics” / The deep breath before the plunge
A grassroots effort created and refined by informed citizen activists, and not by lobbyists or politicians. It takes an unvarnished and objective look at U.S. energy policy with the single goal of achieving U.S. energy security by 2020 and U.S. energy independence by 2040. (Executive Summary, Version V)
Energy strategist Groppe says world faces a permanent oil shortage / Kunstler: Progressivism at the peak / Unlikely guru has reporter’s eye, poet’s heart / Norway would if they could / Swedish Dept. of Energy issues 100-page report on Peak Oil
Scientist Sir John Houghton tells Caspar Henderson how he convinced the leaders of 30-40 million evangelical Christians in the US to get serious about climate change.
The city council of Portland, Oregon today passed a resolution to create a task force to investigate the implications of peak oil. The official attention came in response to activism by Portland Peak Oil, a local grassroots group.
Those who write about the future from the perspective of peak oil fall along a spectrum ranging from life-as-we-know-it with hydrogen cars to most-have-died-off from oil wars, famine, and disease with the remainder living in scattered tribes on subsistence agriculture.
Peak oil resolution goes to Portland city council /
PO and the Environment conference report #3 /
Michael Klare on PO and national security (video) / Australian TV: Oil supplies set to decline / Peak oil at Linky Dinky / Plan B From Outer Space (links)
Global warming: want to see if your house will be flooded? / Climate change drives disease to new territory / What cost climate change? / Rep. Pombo outlines his plans on energy, fisheries
Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Tom Udall (D-NM) urged immediate action to reduce America’s dependence upon oil and address climate change while endorsing an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Maryland, Sustainable Energy Forum 2006: Peak Oil and the Environment.”
Last week the peak oil phenomenon reached a turning point when official Washington began to realize it has a problem. The problem, however, is currently being framed as high-gas-prices-going-into-the-next-election rather than worldwide oil depletion.
