The Elephant in the Peak Oil Living Room

	Duration: 28:49 minutes Upload Time: 07-06-02 17:32:11 User: peakmoment :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: Peak Moment 60: Richard Katz and Dennis Brumm burst the technofix dream-bubble by naming the hard stuff: the lack of sufficient alternatives to oil and gas at the enormous scale needed. Overpopulation exceeding the planet's carrying capacity. Potential collapse. But wait! they close with ideas for positive individual responses. [www.sfbayoil.org/sfoa]
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peakmoment ::: Favorites Most independent petroleum geologists don't see sufficient reserves of quality oil going beyond 2030 or so (see Peak Moment with Richard Heinberg on "Peak Oil, Peak Coal and Beyond." Even if we did, would we want to burn it all and seal our global warming fate, which could make the planet unfit for life? 07-09-11 23:37:50 __________________________________________________
pill1pill2 ::: Favorites Thousands of years of untapped oil left in the earth. We haven't tapped the gulf reserve yet. 07-09-11 20:53:05 __________________________________________________
sas331 ::: Favorites Thomas Malthus was right -- just about 200 hundred years ahead of the pack. It is no accident that the human population has exploded in direct proportion to our ability to efficiently harness cheap energy, i.e., OIL. Now that we have reached PEAK OIL, and available cheap energy is becoming increasingly scarce, the population will begin to DIE OFF. 07-08-17 00:45:17 __________________________________________________
peakmoment ::: Favorites How right you are: and isn't it a miracle that we can know we're part of the miracle? I think your wife has suggested a valuable use for fear, if we can not be stopped by it but use it to listen more deeply. Thank you for sharing a deeper level of response to "bad news", to move beyond our fears and see what response arise. I think you would appreciate the new film "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire." 07-08-13 00:02:11 __________________________________________________
qf6ck ::: Favorites Life is a miracle. Our fears do not matter, as the miracle is not our own. We are part of it. It will continue no matter what we fear or say. My wife added that the fear will make us listen for the ideas that will come. We will have what we need. 07-08-12 18:56:28 __________________________________________________
peakmoment ::: Favorites There is fear that is wise--like when you don't put your fingers in a flame. Then there's fear that's fabricated, like the current American federal administration is promulgating. Increasing human population in a planet of finite resources has a known end -- population will get reduced to a sustainable level. The question is - will we find "humane" solutions that minimize suffering, or will nature do the reduction? Remember - Nature Bats Last. 07-08-12 18:38:01 __________________________________________________
qf6ck ::: Favorites These guys are afraid. They fear we have painted ourselves into a corner. They want us to be afraid, too. The truth is that fear will blind us to the solutions we find every day. Take heart. We will find a solution. 07-08-11 07:13:56 __________________________________________________
oreolvrs ::: Favorites very entertaining 07-07-15 02:45:06 __________________________________________________
peakmoment ::: Favorites Check out the piece by Paul Chefurka called "Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot: Population, the Elephant in the Room" on his website 3dub dot paulchefurka dot ca 07-07-07 18:04:06 __________________________________________________
dbrumm ::: Favorites The scale of what we've done with the condensed sunlight of 200-300 million years cannot be replaced by any of the so-called alternatives. We already are risking our food supply just to experiment with this. I suggest going to globalpublicmedia dot com and search for "myths of biofuels." 07-06-14 16:13:45 __________________________________________________
dbrumm ::: Favorites Let's assume "we have plenty of green energy is we ever wanted to go get it," which I personally don't believe. How long would this last in our eternal growth economic model? We would still soon reach a point where we could not produce enough. The amount of petroleum energy we used in the United States last year was greater than the energy captured by the plants in the US. (part 1 of 2) 07-06-14 16:10:47 __________________________________________________
greyflcn ::: Favorites We have plenty of green energy is we ever wanted to go get it. greyfalcon. net/ energy.png You don't NEED oil to power our cars. Can charge electric cars in 1 minute and drive 100 miles off it. greyfalcon. net/ quickcharge greyfalcon. net/ quickcharge3 BLEH Hydrogen greyfalcon. net/ hydrogen4.png BLEH Ethanol greyfalcon. net/ peaksoil greyfalcon. net/ soy2 BLEH BioDiesel greyfalcon. net/ palmoil greyfalcon. net/ soy5 greyfalcon. net/ soy BLEH Algae greyfalcon. net/ algae 07-06-11 23:36:08 __________________________________________________
nathan49nathan ::: Favorites Congratulations: finally talking about overpopulation and earth's carrying capacity. Problem: still rambling. In general, people choosing to watch these don't need to be convinced that there is a looming crisis that big government and big corporations are ignoring and denying. They need practical steps. "What can I do," should be the primary structure for these interviews. 07-06-10 12:45:00 __________________________________________________
DFORCE1969 ::: Favorites A timely and sobering discussion of the kind you won't hear on mainstream ,corporate US TV;The beginning of the end of the global-capitailist oil driven world exploitative system? Hopefully! 07-06-05 21:04:52 __________________________________________________