Peak Moment 137: These four presentations were taped at the ASPO-USA 2008 conference. Morey Wolfson shows a stunning Google Earth presentation of oil's planetary transportation Choke Points, primarily in the middle east. Jeff Vail discusses how our energy future is not controlled solely by what's possible economically, technologically and geologically but, equally importantly, geopolitically. He notes we will increasingly produce less because of geopolitical problems--as in Nigeria, Iraq, and elsewhere. Editor Tom Whipple discusses two significant publications available free on the ASPO-USA.com website and through email subscription: daily Peak Oil News and the weekly Peak Oil Review. He describes how oil scarcity is already being felt in island nations and other less-developed countries. Connecticut State Legislator Terry Backer provides sound advice on how to get a peak oil resolution through a legislative body: through someone experienced in getting legislation introduced, and by speaking the language of legislators. He succeeded in his state by framing peak oil within economic issues and government's responsibilities to the people of his state. DVDs of the entire conference can be ordered through ASPO-USA at www.regonline.com This is the eighth and final Peak Moment Conversation videotaped at ASPO-USA 2008. Earlier programs are with energy investment banker Matthew Simmons on "Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown?"; "Making Financial Sense of the Coming Energy Crisis" with ...
Tags: Choke, Geopolitics, Peak, Points, politics
@imthemac420 people are going to suffer either way, the less of the two evils is preferable in my opinion. The flock of sheep known as man will never make the right collective choice. Children will never take their medicine.
how about no government at all id rather that
What do you mean by survived peak oil? They just left the USSR like every other eastern satellite state did. N i laugh when "environmentally-minded" people are willing to look the other way when human-rights are being trounced for mother earth.
"Anarchy has to ensue before a true police state arises in America"
What are you talking about. We already have a police state in Amerikkka. Trying protesting without getting a permit. Try owning a gun without a license. Try not stopping at a DWI checkpoint. There, thats the 1st, 2nd, n 4th amendments right already.
I really doubt a "police State" is required, but it's critical that enough Americans realize there's a problem to be solved. Anarchy has to ensue before a true police state arises in America. Even then there's no garantee tht the police state would address the concerns mention in the video. We would be better off working with what we have first
thanks for posting, this is useful to me
Actually, in a way, that's the formula for Cuba--who managed to survive "peak oil" when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early '90s. I think they may have been "helped" in a way because it was a dictatorship and not a free market capitalistic society.
forming a police state that aims at long term planning/ investment and slow growth is the solution. Free market capitalism and careful planning do not go together.
Well yesterday, in Britain, the chairman of the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (Lord Puttnam) urged video games to be used to spread the message about global warming. We just need them to add various "Peak Moments" to what's covered in the games.
Shame folk have stopped reading though.
I was being a little facetious. Probaly not benefical, but hey let's look on the bright side, the beach will be closer to your home now.
i would not necessarily call it a benefit..
squabbling & killing for diminishing fossil reserves is futile ;Only through co-operation
& rational planning can humanity hope to survive with any kind of technological base;The alternative is barbarism,feudalism or fascism;In which case our species does not dserve to survive.
I mean the video game industry is teaching kids that they should fight world wars for energy and that kind of programming has been going on for at least 10 years on main stream. I don't see an alternative "programming-teaching" from you "Generation failures" on offer. your not reaching the entire bandwidth of people.
they are all reaching the wrong kind of crowed and selling the issues totally wrong to the younger generation who will fully need to live and deal with this scarcity.
They need to make 3 version of all presentations ... 1 for morons and 1 for kids and their versions for intellectuals and academics.
Gobal warming has caused the Nothwest Passage to open up, unintended consequence, most will not be like this particular benefit of Global warming.
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