Organic Cheesemaking Farmstay in Coonoor, Nilgiris, India.
Organic Cheesemaking Farmstay in Coonoor, Nilgiris, India.
"Dear Reader,
Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is the scientific conclusion of the best paid, most widely-respected geologists, physicists, bankers, and investors in the world. These are rational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenon known as global 'Peak Oil'."
Above is the opening para on "Life after the Oil Crash", one of the first and best sites on the reality of Peak Oil. If you have to understand Peak Oil and it is high time you did, visit the site below. But more important you burn the above graph in your mind. It will be the most important graph you are to see for the near future.
Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis - absolutely marvellous and compact lecture by Professor Albert Bartlett of Colorado University, on the arithmetic of exponential growth that our economic system imposes on everything on this planet. A modest 7% fixed growth rate of market and therefore of resources means that you are doubling your energy consumption every 10 years and that is what is happening. But the main point he makes is about the time left for remaining resources to deplete and the implications of when we are likely to realise that…… we are pretty close to midnight. The growth is exponential when added - and you know what they call a similar phenomenon in medical terms? - Cancer. So I end with his quote that sums it - “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Dr. Albert Bartlett
Into the Grey Zone
Professor Bartlett talks to The House - Detailed and superb attempt to explain to the guys in power what Peak Oil is all about. Unfortunately the graphs are missing that he presented in his lectures. Anyway if you have the time and patience please read this as Prof Bartlett has a great way of bringing out the most important facets of Peak Oil so that they are not merely theory and fact but appeal to our sense of scale and urgency.
Anyway more on Peak Oil. I found this very compact and simple-talk presentation on the phenomenon. It is called Ten Principles of Post Oil-Peak Planning. READ IT I say!!!!
The Road to Olduvai Gorge- A truly original investigation of the life expectancy of an Industrial Civilisation. Richard. C. Duncan, Phd. puts it at 100 years. Really worth a read. It encapsulates the trajectory of the current world civilisation and a lot of it is looking uncannily true. In contrast, both the “exponential growth theory” (of “mainstream” economics) and “steady-state” theory (of “utopian” economics) fail.
Olduvai Gorge Theory mainly says -
Peak Oil News - An excellent blog on latest in Peak Oil News.
From The Wilderness- Another great site on Peak Oil. Good God! Won’t these excellent Peak Oil sites ever stop? Why are there so many of these Peak Oil sites around suddenly and worse still - talking so much sense? There should be a law against this kind of thing I say!
Deconsumption - Important to read the biography of the person behind this site, Steven Lagavulin, who uses a pseudonym for reasons explained below.
"My name is not Steven Lagavulin. Lagavulin..... I'm not using a pseudonym out of any desire to be deceitful; but there are a number of reasons why I've chosen to do so. The primary one is that I was (until recently) an Investment Advisor with a top-10 tier financial firm..... After fifteen years engaged in an active study and interest in the investing world, I found I could no longer accept responsibility for allocating peoples hard earned (or even easy earned) savings in markets that I believe are stumbling toward a cliff. I left because I couldn't stomach the lying anymore. I couldn't "push the product" when I knew those products were little more than a conglomeration of illusions. The things I felt that people should be doing to secure their future had nothing whatsoever to do with the things that I made a commission on...... So now I peddle whatever advice I have for free...... 'Deconsumption'. This is where the developed world is heading, like it or not. The products and resources are dwindling, and the buyers (the Western world) are over-burdened with debt. It's not conjecture, and the script has already been written. The party is over. The Age of Deconsumption is dawning upon us all."
So that was Steve Lagavulin but do read the page on Peak Oil - The Most important thing you don’t want to know about Peak Oil. And that article recommends you also read an An Important Announcement by Michael C. Ruppert.
Channeling Hubbert - Interesting looking site on Peak Oil.
Energy Bulletin - is a clearinghouse for information regarding the peak in global energy supply. They publish news, research and analysis concerning:
Resource Insights - A private blog mainly on Peak Oil with interesting insights of course.
Transition Culture - Now for some steps towards solutions or at least learning how to make a community wide response to energy and other such issues. Transition Culture is a great site I was just recommended to visit. Looked at it briefly but intend reading it more deeply soon. Check it out.
Die Off - Ok now that you are getting an appetite for this kind of thing, go thru this site. Can this really happen? No it is only supposed to happen to the bad guys is what our teacher, preachers and other creatures said…
World Without Oil - A site with a pro-active approach to waking up to the reality of a world without oil. So just goes to show that most people who are talking about this are not 'doomers' but in fact moving towards a realistic approach to reality!!! Oh shit get real, I say!!! …
Noooooooooo! Stopppppppppppppp! ……………. Crude Awakening.org!!