Bomb Hollywood. ([info]endmyliberation) wrote,
@ 2004-11-16 13:35:00
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Current mood: pleased.
Current music:Jimmy Eat World - 12.23.95

About time I posted this.
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/images/stories/animoil.swf

Some independent scientists are predicting that "Peak Oil" will come at about 2007 - much sooner than "official" estimates of 2037.

The oil extracted after this point is going to be more expensive to get out of the ground, furthur driving up the price.

The price of oil is due to skyrocket, and more than it has done recently. Soon supply will start to be less than demand.

Look around you. Perhaps make a list of everything that wasn't:

-Made using oil
-Transported to your home using petrol
-Grown using oil run tractors
-Packaged with plastics
-Made with machines running on fossil fuels

It will be a very short list.

For every 1 calorie of food we eat, 10 calories of oil are burned.

When the price of oil goes up, what do you think will happen to the price of food?
And everything else?

The time to act is now. Global Warming is not the only threat here.

The mild oil depression of the 1970's is nothing. This will be forseeably permanent.

Massive worldwide death, and a time that will radically alter human existance.

We can't avoid this, but we can make it a lot less disastrous.

Please watch this flash, it explains it better, and is where I got all this information: http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/images/stories/animoil.swf

And go to http://www.powerswitch.org.uk to help.


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[info]ex_moira977
2004-11-16 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for posting that! I posted it on my blog here:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MoiraRichardson/

Also, try to watch this film:

http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/Advertising_EndOfWorld

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[info]endmyliberation
2004-11-17 12:12 am UTC (link)
Great blog post!

That film looks really good, by the preview. I'd like to see it all.

Thanks for the comment.

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[info]gilly_damnit
2004-11-16 04:23 pm UTC (link)
Meh, the flash says exactly the same as what you wrote out.

For every 1 calorie of food we eat, 10 calories of oil are burned.

That is the most intresting thing I've heard all day.
psst..is that the new jimmy eat world album your listening to? Any good?

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[info]endmyliberation
2004-11-17 12:18 am UTC (link)
The flash does say a lot more, I didnt see the point typing it all out because it wouldnt do it justice, just what I considered to be the most compelling. (if you watch to the end it has a lot of links to some non-UK websites)

No m'dear, it's a song from their 1999 masterpiece Clarity. Which I doubt they'll ever better.

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[info]alcarilinque
2004-11-16 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Some are hoping global warming will open up new natural gas and oil fields in the arctic regions. Hmmm. Heh.

Either way, it's all disturbing.

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[info]endmyliberation
2004-11-17 12:41 am UTC (link)
If that's the kind of thing we're to hope for, shit.

Some people are suggesting coal will become important in a few decades. Hope is in some odd places.

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[info]harlicat
2004-11-16 10:53 pm UTC (link)
I heard about peak oil not too long ago and I found this site

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

very informative. Good luck trying to solve the world's problems today :o)

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[info]endmyliberation
2004-11-17 12:46 am UTC (link)
Haha, thank you. I need it as we all do.

Lifeaftertheoilcrash is a very pessimistic site. Though I don't see anything that doesn't concinve me, sigh. Shame they choose to use it to sell a book.

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[info]harlicat
2004-11-17 05:30 am UTC (link)
It's sad to have to accept that bad things are probably going to happen, because it means either
A) We're far too gullible or
B) We've been living blind until now and bad things ARE actually going to happen.
It's quite a depressing thought sometimes. Even worse so when like you said, some people are using the idea to make money and sell books. Hah imagine how much oil they're using to produce all those books... oh the irony...

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[info]mindfulness
2004-11-22 06:08 am UTC (link)
Thanks for posting this. It's been at the back of my mind for a year or two. Now it needs to be at the front.

In Australia there's new industries to make oil from coal. It's an incredibly polluting process. While vegetable originated fuels (soy, sugar etc) aren't getting much support. The government taxes them into the ground rather than support the nascent industry. And there was an outcry recently when it was suggested current oil be mixed. Almost everyone wanted pure petrol as a seemingly god-given right. Funny sick.

Renewable energy can be used to extract hydrogen from water. Hydrogen is portable like petrol and only produces water vapour as a pollutant. The structural changes to put that into effect would cost heaps, but would save us from the catastrophe that is peak oil. Water vapour does have greenhouse effects of course, but I am not sure how much.

Also, I think we should have acted earlier, not just because of the greenhouse, but because wasting oil on transport is criminal. A world without plastic, while appealing (I am allergic to it) will be a very different world. Wooden computers anyone?

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[info]endmyliberation
2004-11-22 01:02 pm UTC (link)
It is absolutely my pleasure when I get commments like yours.

I didn't know about that. The UK is also sitting on a shitload of coal. In a way its good that it got too expensive to be worth getting out, because it really is bad for the environment, but now our North Sea oil is running out and as I commented above the whole world is going to use anything it can to keep us running comfortably into armageddon.

I know fat from chip shops here is banned for use in vehicles, hah. Whilst its something I've heard a lot about recently, I don't think its as efficient as some people are hoping. Besides, the tractor and the building are powered by what?

A friend once showed me a website of a company that made all wooden computer hardware. It looked pretty snazzy, but it was expensive. I cannot imagine what we are going to have to do to learn to live without plastics.

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