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We need to know how vulnerable our current medical systems are to oil scarcity and what we can do to reduce that vulnerability… To achieve those aims, we need a “Hirsch Report” for both public health and acute (hospital) care.
America’s healthcare predicament will be resolved in the context of the worldwide energy emergency known as “peak oil.” The era of cheap, abundant fossil fuels is entering its twilight and medicine – virtually cut-off from this awareness – is exposed to the consequences.
Book review: Peak Oil Prep
Paul Hawken: What’s next
3,000 people get by without buying new things
Being green can make you happy: new study
Slow food’s growing pains
Garden Girl video
Post-peak medicine: garlic case study
Green web portal for Portland
Positive charcoal = negative carbon?
How to provide good food for everyone
Vandana Shiva on farmer suicides & more
Pot becomes top cash crop in US
An organic recipe for development
Federal subsidies turn farms into big business
Inuit diet touted as health tonic
Luxuries of past become necessities
Fattest people on planet
The exhaustion epidemic
Has politics contaminated the food supply?
Vegetarianism: the choice of the ‘more intelligent’ child
Will global warming release diseases from glaciers?
Analysis: Wealth brings new health threats
Cooling towers are a hotspot for evolving disease
Lords of the logistic: Don’t need no stinkin’ SUVs
Rail revolution to clear UK’s gridlock ‘in 30 years’
Heavier Americans – increased fuel consumption
Turns out, Seattle isn’t so green
Advancing deserts and rising seas
Longer, more expensive wildfire seasons
Diseases appear on rise with temperature
Climate change hits hard in the Australian outback
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.”
A drop-sized way to bring clean water to a thirsty world /
Toilets underused to fight disease: U.N. study /
China – threat of 60 million obese citizens
Peak Oil is a women’s issue /
Club of Rome (Canada) on the twin crises /
Blackwater mention LATOC /
UK oil production lowest for 28 years /
Dan Bednarz on peak oil and public health
