Another excellent Illahee series lecture
Another excellent Illahee series lecture last night in PDX about peak oil and correlative topics. “All of the debts for society’s century-long industrial fiesta are coming due at the same time. We have no choice but to transition to a world no longer dependent on fossil fuels, a world made up of communities and economies that function within ecological bounds. How we manage this transition is the most important question of our time.”
The speaker, Richard Heinberg, heads up a think tank in Sonoma. Excellent resource: http://www.postcarbon.org/
He also spoke about the changes in farming practices. When oil is gone, and it will be very soon, so will be the way we produce and distribute food. Here’s a big part of the solution, the missing link to equipment and processes needed to do it successfully: http://www.mmfec.com/
The speaker even talked about community currencies as an alternative to hyper-inflated national currencies. We’re on the same page, for sure. Kinda felt good, having researchers of this quality validating what I’ve been saying on my blog here.
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From your link: http://www.postcarbon.org/ I quote RH saying…
“Once upon a time (about 12 yrs past), oil sold for $12 a barrel and a lot of people thought it would get even cheaper because the market was glutted.
But instead the price rose: many big oilfields were aging & yielding less, & it was getting harder to find new ones—especially in places easy & cheap to drill.”
Well why was oil $12 a gallon? And why is so much more now?
12 years ago America was not involved in a undeclared perpetual war. 12 years ago we were exchanging money for oil in a mutually beneficial exchange of goods for money.
Well thanks to G.W.B. the Federal Government bomb oil producing lands, ruin their infrastructure, kill people who had no involvement in the war what so ever (people who might have been working in the oil fields).
RH also doesn’t take into account the loss of purchasing power per dollar printed.
If their is too much money in an economy it loses value. Much like Weimar Germany, Sept 1923 $10 million marks (Marques?) would by a loaf of bread, but in a few months it took $500 million marks to buy the same loaf of bread. What bread & oil have in common is that they’re both consumable-commodities.
But really why worry? IF you are elected AND you do legalize hemp, hemp-fuel could be produced and fuel hemp-fueled farm-equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Ar_AvtMdc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36yUldk2MI
Besides how would you force every Oregonian to switch from their cars now to another source unless the consumer sees the cost effectiveness before hand?
It’d be the same thing as when Federal Express came along to compete with the US Post Office, sure it was expensive before, but as more and more people saw how much better service Fed-Ex provided, the more often it was used. But still the US post office refuses to relinquish the 1st class mail delivery.
But if you are worried about these things, about farmers not being able to produce and farm their land, well all that needs to be done is remove the burden of constant taxation, so that their lands, faculties, and rewards of their labor are all their own.
Very nice site!
Very nice site!
I understand that Hubberts peak is accurate and that we are now past the point of peak oil. I think many of the current events have to do with this understanding and it won’t be long before the main stream media and population wake up and understand what is going on. For me and my family, we are preparing for the next generation.
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