Religion and Peak Oil: The City of Progress
The roots of the contemporary crisis of industrial society have little to do with the technical issues that occupy so much of today’s Peak Oil discussions.
Education
Mini-review: Energy Crossroads, PO documentary
How do you get your older Midwest relatives to swallow the Red Pill and understand why you’re obsessed with peak oil? A DVD for when End of Suburbia just won’t do.
Peak Oil Review — April 23, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Peak oil – Apr 24
NY Times coverage of PO – “A very bad idea”
Global warming and the coming peaks in oil, gas and coal production
Oil depletion in English as a Second Language (ESL) format
Chris Vernon Responds to George Monbiot
A world without oil, in a game
Our world is finite: Is this a problem?
We all know the world is finite. We also know that growth is central to our way of life. At some point, growth in resource utilization must collide with the fact that the world is finite. We are now reaching that point. (Includes discussion questions)
Media – Apr 22
WorldChanging Earth Day special
Local TV station WCCO does year-long series on energy
ODAC News – Apr 22
Australia’s drought – situation grim
British Gas sees billions in green
Peaking of world oil production: Recent forecasts
Gasoline price rises as supply falls
The Peak Oil Crisis: Have the Troubles Begun
China turns net coal importer
China: Half of natural gas imported by ’20
East Siberian-Pacific Ocean pipeline struggles
Russians get rid of weakening dollar
The looming oil crisis could arrive uncomfortably soon
Forecasts of peak oil production have ranged from Thanksgiving weekend 2005 to somewhere beyond 2050. But at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Long Beach, California, early this month, the latest answer emerged: World oil production could stop growing as early as 2020–too soon to avoid a crisis–or it could hold off until 2040.
Asia – Apr 20
Massive Chinese effort to train geologists
China vs. Earth
Climate change will devastate South Asia
Albert Bates, guide for our post-petroleum, globally warmed future
“We have an individual preparedness to be concerned with, and that involves securing a supply of food, water, shelter and other basic needs for yourself and your immediate community. And then we have a larger social preparedness, without which there is no hope for the individual to survive.”
The Last Oil Shock – book review
After years of work on peak oil, it is rare for me to find a book written for the general public that can teach me something I didn’t know before. But with David Strahan’s book, The Last Oil Shock, it was a different matter.
What GAO Peak Oil report?
An important piece of internationally significant news drops down through the crack
