[OKC] Peak Oil and a Changing Climate - new video series on The Nation

[Shauna Struby]

Peak Oil and a Changing Climate - new video series on The Nation

 

The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on  fossil
fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health,  while
warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to
us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil runs out?

Peak Oil is the point at which petroleum production reaches its  greatest
rate just before going into perpetual decline. In "Peak Oil and  a Changing
Climate," a new video series from The Nation and OnTheEarth productions,
radio host Thom Hartmann explains that the world  will reach peak oil within
the next year if it hasn't already. As a nation, the United States reached
peak oil in 1974, after which it  became a net oil importer.

 

Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and the other
scientists, researchers and writers interviewed throughout "Peak  Oil and a
Changing Climate" describe the diminishing returns our world  can expect as
it deals with the consequences of peak oil even as it  continues to pretend
it doesn't exist. These experts predict substantially increased
transportation costs, decreased industrial  production, unemployment, hunger
and social chaos as the supplies of the fuels on which we rely dwindle and
eventually disappear.

 

More here :::
http://www.thenation.com/article/157434/peak-oil-and-changing-climate. 

 

Shauna Lawyer Struby

imagine, innovate, collaborate, transition

Co-chair, Transition OKC

Past-president, Sustainable OKC

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