YOU ARE HERE: The Oil Journey (Narrated by Peter Coyote)

[NearAbbeyRoad]

We have COMMONWEALTH - land and its resources. People who "own" land, even to live on, and its resources should pay a levy to pay for community expenditure. Then no Income Tax, which discourages production. People then are not living pay packet to pay packet - wage slaves. Social interaction improves.

Then land and its resources, which are finite are used to maximum efficiency. This reduces usage and preserves what we have. Look up Geonomics. Enlightening.

[jimbills]

This is the best presented big picture synthesis of the major trends of our history and problems as we move forward that I've ever seen. Really, really well done.

We have a huge obstacle, though. The vast majority simply have no clue that the problems even exist. And many of those that have heard about them rigorously deny them.

It's for these reasons that I think our immediate future is going to be very rocky. But I can hope we'll achieve the transition in a positive way, eventually.

[TomCoook]

If i will speak about it at work or with our flat mates, they will sent me to hell, because it is no important for them. We are really close tho this problems and time is running faster as we want it to. They said to me, why the hell i want that much insulation, 3glass windows, modern heating in my and my girlfriends dream house, because to keep the house running is going to be year by year more expensive. I do agree more people should see this, very good video 10 out of 10

[sidvidkid]

This "film" is ideology and not fact.

Nothing about new safe thorium reactors, nothing about ethanol / methanol fuels. Hydrates?

The malthusian ideals have been proven to be false over and over again - we live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. those who wish to take our freedoms and independance keep flying this bullshit malthusian flag every generation, it never works, but here they go again....yawn

[asherpci]

@sidvidkid How many thorium reactors are online? How much do they cost to build? What is the EROEI of ethanol?

[sidvidkid]

@asherpci

How shud i know? I'm no expert.

The point is this video is portrayed as an exhaustive account of energy usage and possibilities going forward, which it clearly is not. Thats what makes it propaganda as opposed to honest journalism.

[sweetconcrete]

@sidvidkid So you don't know what you are talking about and you use it as an argument? Who is going to put those new energy source into place? I don't see any government planning this seriously, yes there are experiments here and there but nothing that can be put to scale with the oil infrastructure. Ethanol's net energy return is close to 1:1 compared to early 1900s oil which was 1:100. How can you keep economic growth going if you don't have surplus energy to invest into it?

[sidvidkid]

@sweetconcrete

Wow you sound really stressed. I dont know, but what i do know is the doom sayers have been telling us that oil will run out before the 80s, 90s, 2000 and they are still banging on and on and yet still oil is cheap as chips. They are just trying to scare you.

And as for what government is planning what - who cares, ask yourself this, what government ever invented anything or brought anything of use to the marketplace?

Answer = none. No solutions ever come from govs

[sweetconcrete]

@sidvidkid There is no doom or shortage of oil. The only thing that will change is that the remaining resource will be harder to get less plentiful driving up the price. Our society depends on cheap oil, this won't last forever. Hubbard predicted in 1954 a peak of US oil production in 1965-1970, it happened in 1971 and its production has been down from 10mbd to 5mbd since. The problem is not running out of oil, it's running out of energy efficient cheap oil.

[sweetconcrete]

@sweetconcrete I meant Hubbert and 1956.

[sidvidkid]

@sweetconcrete

All your doing is repeating stuff you heard other people say.

I'm aware of these arguments i never argued against them. I merely stated the fact that this video is deliberately obfuscating all the facts and trying to paint a doom scenario, because all governments depend for their power on the populace feeling scared and needing big brothers protection. People like you who will act out of fear rather then intellectual analysis.

[FishyMoe]

HAHA can't remember the 60's dudeeeeeeee

[DrCassandra]

I am familiar with the peak oil concept and this personal story really brings home the local and imminent consequences. Tell your friends!

[MrEnergyCzar]

Great video. I've been preparing for Peak Oil for 5 years now and have done what many won't be able to do unless they started already. We'll demand we use our military before we change the way we live.... there is too much big business money influence to allow re-localization, growing local food, heck, electric cars even get resistance...

[candistyx]

Social progress is much exaggerated.

[rileymayhem20]

I watched this without prejudice and I got the ideas and concepts being presented

[ashermiller]

@TIKIMAN198 Those are done automatically by youtube. It's a bot.

[TIKIMAN198]

@ashermiller oh lol

[aethermind]

Wonderful. A clarion call - beautifully presented. Thank you.

[MrIonization]

one of the things i discovered while researching this for my engineering economics class this past term was the change manufacturing would need to take. Rather than tossing out your old cell phone and all the valuable trace materials in it, you'd replace parts of it. rather than going out and buying a product, you'd go to your local fabrication lab and print off a new piece of clothing or tool

[neotruekaiser]

i think you might need to take a closer look at how information is moved now as compared to the past. a slow down of life will mean less information at people's fingertips, more reliance on fewer points of data, and fewer audible opinions. yet we will still have more or less the same media empires but with no way for people to get alternative views. the food and assumption of democracy is that the 'voters' have all the information and make a rational decision. we won't have both later.

[DeborahBrearley]

Hi Conrad....all trying to do our bit to work and live in a more basic and happy way..we will soldier on

[Spacesson]

How can i get the transscript to translate it into german ... ?

How can i get the video making file to translate the text n the video?

That would be helpful to spread it even more ...

[tylertyler82]

Suburbs are a cancer!

[wackbzn]

@tylertyler82 Totally agree with you, and the growing and keeping of them has been one of the most perverse acts that oil economy has done, it's part of brainwashing called "status" and "american way of life"

[vatri89]

Nice movie. Let's share this with our friends and contacts ! Let's translate this to our local languages, too.

[DragonYearJoji]

SHARED with my circle.

Would like to help too.

I agree with everything in this video - I live in Japan and look around me at the madness all around me. Toyota's aim is for an output 10 million + cars next year. Nissan is looking to nearly double it's output to 7 million. (Nikkei). Japan can't say no to Iran for oil. Post-nuke energy production shifted to big increase in LPG Gas for power. Everyone asleep at the wheel in the morning traffic ... the nail that stands up will be hammered down!

[ammachi3]

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. It good to see that PCI have put something like this together. I hope it brings more awareness to people so that more of us can make the transition away from fossil fuel dependency.

[marcey666]

great video!

[nellre]

Fabulous

[350sydney]

Sad isn't it that current politics in the US, and here where I live in Australia, simply fails to recognise any of these realities. As well as a looming energy crisis, we have a crisis of leadership. Can democracy fix these problems and prepare us for the future? RIght now, you would have to be very doubtful.

[ironearth701]

"Be the change you want to see in the world"; Gandhi. I stopped driving years ago and now take the train as much as possible. That can still be done in Chicago. Many US cities need to rebuild their passenger railroads.

[stixofnh]

Excellent, excellent. Spreading it big time.

[TheWoodlandGlade]

In my humble opinion this is vital viewing and should be shared as widely as possible.

[Kratax]

Though when you concentrate on resources instead of money, you might start hoarding stuff just in case. But in RBE there will be equal distribution system, so that you can't just buy everything so that others are left out.

And here we come to that sustainability is even more valuable than goods. But whole world needs to change. Nations need to change their values towards what is sustainable. Move away from upkeeping impossibilities and move away from debt and move away from money.

[NearAbbeyRoad]

@Kratax, " Move away from upkeeping impossibilities and move away from debt and move away from money"

Look up Geonomics. It answers what you desire.

[Kratax]

If you could produce food sustainably, then that would be really valuable, because that sustainability would keep you alive. You don't need a new gadget, you need to get yourself connected into something that sustains you. In cities it is easy to forget or not know how to be part of sustainability. Humankind as a whole doesn't sustain itself even now. But the competition of just staying alive will get harder in the future. Sustaining oneself will be hot stuff, even if you don't get it now.

[Kratax]

When things get more scarce, money is less of use than resources. If you owned thousand gallons of gas for a car and someone had ten thousand dollars, well, if you needed your gas and there was no gas for sale anywhere, then that gas would be of more value than the pile of dollars. See? Money is useless, if it can't buy what you need, but resources are still resources, even if you can't sell them. Need to think in resources, not in money. Same with factories, knowledge, sustainability, ...

[Kratax]

In the medieval times and even before there were money in use. But coming to the industrial times, corporations were established. Before that, there was small businesses, sure. But if you needed a new church for example, then people putted up a one time project.

Now, we have learned to use corporations efficiently, and we have had a lot of energy and knowledge. That has made great progress. Cool, but we are running out of resources, and nations are starting to get into deep debt. Needs change.

[SaintCog]

I know what using a trowel feels like when fixing cracks, and I see alot of people around me, trowels at hand ,waiting to keep the cracks hidden, but now I want to put it down and find a pickaxe. Those making and applying patch will not be pleased that the first swing will be at where the patch is thickest.

[highnine9]

Great piece of work very enlightening, I think the problem is that there are too many people needed to change their ways in order for it to have any type of impact on the way the world has grown to work. Even with learning this Im not going to pass on buying the new iWhatever. I think humanity will run its time, we will die and the earth live on.

[postcarboninstitute]

@highnine9 We believe, always, that there is a good chance we can educate by example. The 'domino effect' works both destructively and constructively. And, yes, you'll pass on the new iWhatever. You may not think you have the willpower, but you have the wisdom to separate the meaningless from the meaningful, and that will serve you well.

[Kratax]

@highnine9 I have mentioned resource based economy before. That means that we should not think about money, but resources. Remove money and think how much it consumes to produce something. And so on.

But the big idea is, that the whole global culture need to change radically. We use money everywhere. That need to change: Instead think about sustainability and societies. Global culture changes, a) if there is no choice, b) the culture is being changed, and c) people get the hang of it