Peak Oil -- And What Do We Do Now?
Debate on "Peak Oil" and choosing a new Global Paradigm
This group's purpose is to debate the “peak oil” phenomenon and its inevitable aftermath, and how we can help shape a post -petroleum future. This is a global phenomenon and this is a global group. Peak oil is the point in time at which the maximum global petroleum production rate is reached. After this point in time, the rate of production begins a termi ...learn more
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Created: Sep 25, 2007
Updated: Nov 22, 2009
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Topic: community awareness
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Flag comment for removal DanaW about 1 year ago
Our local county fails to respond with decisive leadership, but to do them justice, they don't really have the reach or the resources. We are now taking our consciousness-raising project to the Sate (in this case, Albany NY) with an appointment with our local assemblyman, a member of the legislative energy committee. Hopefully there will be something to report at about month's end. It's tough slogging, but worth it.
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Raising awareness locally is critical. A brief update on this project: We had a sympathetic ear at our county administration but no hard assistance. Rather we were sent back to do some more homework, namely make additional contacts and return. This networking paid off, however, because it led to a great new resource. Sally Odland is on the administration of Columbia University, a geologist by training. She's written some great stuff on Peak Oil, and best of all, is on the board of ASPO-USA. She reports that this organization has recently briefed the Pentagon and the campaign staffers of both Democratic front-running candidates.
Let me know if you'd like to see copies of those presentations here as tools and references. Sally's advice to us is to work from below so that authorities begin to hear about this issue from many different directions, that it reach critical mass. ASPO-USA was behind Connecticut's legislature's task force; they are now taking that to Massachusetts, and so it spreads. She hopes NY State will follow this year. We all need to help with this. As we all know, we're already behind where we ought to be today. Jump in here so we can help one another. --Dana |
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Friends,
Yesterday we did a presentation on Peak Oil to a couple hundred members of our local community at a potluck dinner. For most present, the concept was completely new, and our goal was simple awareness, that folk begin to think in these terms so that we can start to prepare for post cheap energy. The presentation drew heavily on Kunstler and Heinberg to introduce the how & why of Peak Oil, to consider the effects, and what might be still be done at this late hour. I daresay the event was a success as attendees began to think and ask questions. Now of course the main question is, What's next? Next we approach the County legislature in the person of the Chairman. A small committee (self plus a retired economics professor) have an appointment with him with the objective of getting the County to screen the documentary The End Of Suburbia, whose trailer concludes the header of this Group. (Click on "more" after "Peak Oil -- And What Do We Do Now?" at the top of this or any screen.) This in turn is only a first step toward awareness, and we would expect the County to then follow up and create a task force or some such initiative to generate local preparedness. Connecticut is at this date the first State to have done so, and we will present their findings to the Chairman as an example. See the Connecticut task force's output under Resources in this Group, and use it to mobilize your own locality! Good luck, Dana |
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