Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If you had been able to attend the first afternoon of the ASPO-USA conference in Sacramento yesterday, you could have listened to six writers, most of them working as print journalists today, sharing their insights as to how members of the media cover the peak oil story.
New system could help avert collapse of fisheries
Peak climate (audio) Part 1 is Dr. Peter Ward on past extinctions & violent climate change, Part 2 is Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, on how to live past the energy crisis
Isle of plenty
Melting Ice Brings Competition for Resources
Russia’s ties with Venezuela worrying
Pakistan stares into the abyss
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Oil and the financial crisis
– Gasoline shortages
– War in Nigeria
– Briefs
Palin’s Petropolitics
Speth: Progressive Fusion
A crisis that could make the US election a cleaner contest
These are the slides and text for a presentation given at the ASPO-USA conference September 21-23.
In these ten minutes, I’d like to provide a context for the discussion. I’d like to paint a broadbrush picture of where we were, and where we are going. It will be from the viewpoint of someone inside the movement looking out.
From the grassroots, rather than from the media.
Americans may have a vulnerable Achilles heel made up of two gulfs: the Gulf of Mexico and the Persian Gulf .
This paper will look at how hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico, and a selection of other world events in the Persian Gulf, could turn off the oil spigot and bring the USA to a critical standstill, highlighting the urgency for the development of a different civilization, free of addiction to massive doses of oil.
Nate Hagens: No naked short selling => No short selling at all => No future energy?
China, climate change and US dollars (and peak oil)
Cantarell – Mexico’s own double-whammy huracán
Librarian’s guide to peak oil
Controversal path to possible glut of natural gas
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Practice Losing Farther, Losing Faster: Everyday History in a Crashing Economy
Following the credit crisis futurologist Richard Watson predicts the future trends
The Wisdom of Public Prediction Markets And The Limits Of Statistics
Launch of Wikia Green
A good deal of the recent short term weakness in oil prices has been due to forced selling of energy holdings, which can only continue for so long, until fundamentals reassert themselves, and I expect that an accelerating net export decline will outpace the decline in demand, resulting in higher oil prices.
Heinberg: Don’t panic; prepare!
John Michael Greer interview
CNBC documentary Sept 24 “The Hunt for Black Gold”
The next big disruption: peak oil (CRM)
Where are Libya’s oil exports headed?
New documentary on PO and suburbia: “Sprawling From Grace”
Peak oil “wrong,” says Schwartz
