Nicole Foss: We Need Freedom of Action To Confront Peak Oil

[mspinney203]

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[rebeccaruiz70]

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[creamrising]

Who cares about oil when you have hemp? Hemp is the most important plant in the world..by far. It's the only plant that can feed you, cloth you, house you, cure you, fuel your home, car, lawn mower etc. Why then do we need fossil fuels at all? Ever? For anything?

[Scottnice]

What should a youth do for these coming years? Get a job or go to college? What sectors are going to be hit less hard?

[oggleman]

I've watched all 13 of these videos, plus "Blind Spot" "What a Way to Go" and an 80 minute talk by derrick jensen. I am officially freaked out. I need a break from this peak oil climate change credit crisis talk before I have a heart attack. I'm ready for a nice big dose of denial. Perhaps I can start watching Jersey Shore, or go leave comments about Justin Beiber on classical music videos.

[mphello]

If we truly wish to confront and solve the economic and environmental disasters today, we have to stop blaming socialism, communism, Marxisms - whose only stated goal is to use the law to pay all workers equally - and not allow CEOs and banksters to get paid (let alone steal) a million times more than workers.

We also have to take groups like PETA and vegetarian societies seriously: outlaw meat, which wastes valuable crops and drives up food prices.

[Xsteppin]

@mphello u know if 6% of the land in America was dedicated to growing hemp we would be energy independant? Also sky news reported on an inventor who created a magnet motor for $5,000 that would power your house forever. The solutions are all there my friend ppl are just too busy with partisan politics to notice.

[iTestifyy]

@Xsteppin magnets come from natural elements as well. China pretty much has a monopoly on those natural earth resources needed to utilize magnet technology in large dimensions. This video is the 3rd in the playlist. The guy in the 2nd video talks about that.

[mphello]

Conservatives, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) deniers, and pro-nuclear pro-coal pro-oil advocates do not grasp what environmentalists have known for years: basic science, basic engineering, the second law of Thermo (entropy: which is why it takes MUCH more energy to create extreme localized order such as a sustained nuclear reactor or a cow/pig/chicken), and that the solutions to energy problems will require a complex mixture of changing our lifestyle (going vegan, not reproducing),...

[mphello]

@mphello .. a massive aggressive campaign to build solar and wind farms and algae farms for biofuels.

Conservatives, AGW-deniers, pro-nukes and pro-gas advocates do not understand that just because students and unions and environmentalists cannot point out the exact date a finite resource (gold, silver, oil, CLEAN water) will be used up does not change the fact that it is still finite.

[richardfrederickson]

Cont... Smart people have been predicting 'the end of the world' for generations; Nostrodamus for example. Also the USA on average has a recession every 6 years so if Nicole keeps the same message for another 2 years or so she will be spot on!

[richardfrederickson]

Predicting that something bad is going to happen is the easiest thing in the world. If it happens then you are screwed so it doesn't matter, if it doesn't happen then everyone is just happy that it didn't happen and move on. Nicole comes across as very bright and is very engaging but she is personally profiting from the very lucrative survivalist/doomer in all of us, that makes me suspicious. I'm not saying she is wrong just that seemingly smart people have been predicting 'the end of the world

[scottandildi]

If you sell your house and the collapse happens and you rent and store your wealth in the form of gold or silver etc. and the government issues a law that gold and silver etc. are illegal to own, you lose everything. On the other hand if you keep your house which is paid off completely and have a couple acres to grow food on and raise small animals for food you have something that is self-sustaining and you can barter with something in your local community. Land and shelter are more valuable.

[mphello]

@scottandildi True. But, here's another what-if: if your land becomes contaminated by gas fractionating or nuclear waste, then it becomes worthless. Then you can take your precious metals elsewhere. If you invested entirely in your land, then you will have lost everything.

[scottandildi]

@mphello Yes. That is a painful reality too.

[mphello]

@scottandildi Painful possibility. It's not reality, yet. It may never be, hopefully.

Same with your scenario.

[TheProphetNabob]

A reminder:

Foss said "market top, 10,000 Fall '10." WRONG. Spring '11, market up 98% from low.

ilargi said "oil price crash coming" two years ago. WRONG. Oil now over $100/barrel.

Both foss & ilargi: Deflationary depression enroute! WRONG.

Inital unemployment claims: DOWN. Market UP. GDP: UP.

Those who call me corporate sock puppet: You're funny! Try comparing Foss's predictions with reality and wake the F up.

[ingeborgsjon]

@TheProphetNabob The timing of the crisis is a minor problem. The problem is that the crisis is for real. You should wake up.

[mphello]

I don't take any of these hypocrites seriously the moment they preach that they are so high and mighty above those who "do the blame game" - but then turn around and defend laws that put people in prison just because of what the things they say.

If she's so against the "blame game", then let everyone out of prison. Otherwise, she should shut the hell up.

Some of us (vegans, radicals) ARE justified in laying blame.

[mphello]

Ingrid Newkirk is the smartest AND most courageous woman in the world.

She's one of the few who speaks out against the fascist meat industry

and against the mainstream brainwashing.

This Nicole Foss is smart and right about peak fossil energy and AGW, but she's certainly not exceptional.

[PrisonerofDemocracy]

whos says oil is gonna run out, the people who control the price

[Loafer3211]

Obama ejaculated all over this Woman's preapprehensions.

[sasan1500]

Shes is a smart women. Shes just maybe forget about QE1 QE2 en soon QE3 which simply means expanding money supplies which eventually lead to INFLATION of the currency and commodities prices. Cash will be better then digital money for sure but not for the long run cause FED will eventually inflate it away. You should have cash for the first couple of months but after that you have to have other commodities which hold value during inflationary times. first food then cash after that hard assets.

[Eyebeemz]

The Dow has rallied 2,000 points from when this Benny Hill look-a-like said it was a top.

[49Falcon]

The problem with her predictions is that it assumes that the US dollar will remain the world reserve currency. If that assumption is wrong then you will not see a flight to safety to the US dollar and you will see a significant inflationary response as the demand for US dollars fall of a cliff. I am sure that given today's push to move away the US dollar that she would revise some of her assumptions relating to the health of the dollar.

[drkevincampbell]

This is clearly the smartest woman in the World. The Gold Cartel is pushing the false inflation fear and Fed money printing, and people are buying it hook, line and sinker. When the gold bubble breaks and the dollar rises, these people will be wiped out. No lending + no spending + M3 money contraction + massive unemployment + real estate deleveraging all means only one thing...DEFLATION. Food manipulation is not inflation. This is where everyone is being fooled.

[drkevincampbell]

This is clearly the smartest woman in the World.

[JamesTyreeII]

This is positiveistic

[rupertslander]

Either she has no idea what fiat currency is or she is far too optimistic about its fate. Ignore what she says about holding on to your cash - the Fed will make it worthless - buy all the physical gold you can instead.

[pathocrat]

@rupertslander No, you don't understand the very basics. CASH makes up only like 5% of the money supply, therefore in a CREDIT crunch CASH becomes scarce.

[bench227half]

A very articulate lady and a reasoned, intelligent insight into peak oil. Thanks for posting.Transition networks are popping up all over the UK, and the rest of the world,get involved! I liked the anology at the end of digging the well before you are thirsty. I read about PO about 2 years ago and have been learning practical skills ever since as a direct response to what it will bring. Those things are great but as she says we need to work together and then it will be whole lot easier.

[lonewolfmtnz]

TheProphetNabob is absolutely an activist sock-puppet denier - and IMO is very likely sponsored by BAU/TPTB minions. Recently 'it' has pooping-up (sic) on all sorts of sites ranging from PeakOil.com, The FKN NEWZ, at al with the very obvious intent to be overtly contrarian and as disruptive/disparaging as possible of even occasionally/marginally rational discussion. This tool of nay saying needs the be BANNED here and elsewhere where rational considerations are under discussion.

[lordkoos]

People who criticize the inaccuracy of some of her predictions are missing the point. It's very difficult to predict the exact timing of events -- however that does not mean that the forces and trends she is talking about are not real. They are real and there will be consequences.

[TheProphetNabob]

@lordkoos Yes, and a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[summershred]

Hey ProphetNabob, where's your proof they are wrong? Oh wait you don't have any. Just listen to the message and (as they say in college) read between the lines. She's not trying to make any money or gain control over anyone. I know what to do I just hope i'm ready for it. You're either on the lifeboat, or you are in the water, if you want a seat we still have a few left.

[TheProphetNabob]

@summershred When people predict doom and it doesn't happen, that's called "Being Wrong."

[scottandildi]

@TheProphetNabob When people who ignore people who predict doom and they are wrong, it's called suicide.

[h4x354x0r]

The market's "dead cat bounce" will last at least twice as long as it did in the 30's; probably 3-4 times longer. The bull market always lasts longer than anyone expects. But the fundamental problems - too much debt (and a continued reliance on it to create new "wealth"), too little true wealth creating production, and shrinking energy supplies, are still there. Like cartoon physics, it will eventually fall. I'm as ready as I'm gonna get. How about you?

[TheProphetNabob]

JerisEve, why did you avoid the question?

"How many self-disconfirming predictions do these hacks have to make before people realize that these prophets are full of it?"

Stoneleigh and ilargi have been hugely, glaringly WRONG. Why do you still worship them?

[JerisEve]

This woman is brilliant. Sh has tied all of the separate but related issues together in a comprehensible way.

A depression has been on its way for a long time now. We will have no choice but to face it as our grandparents did. No one can predict the precise moment when it will all come tumbling down, but I truly believe it will be some time this year.

Since her critic, who calls himself TheProphetNabob, tries to discredit her, let that person predict the future. C'mon Bob. Enlighten us.

[TheProphetNabob]

Awhile back Foss said the market was in a “bear rally” and that it “might” reach 10,000 in the Fall of 09, then crash. She is now off by over a year and 1,800 points.

Her co-author at TAE, ilargi, was saying that oil prices were due to fall off a cliff…but oil prices have steadily risen instead.

Both have issued dire warnings of "deflationary depression." Like, when?

How many self-disconfirming predictions do these hacks have to make before people realize that these prophets are full of it?

[ysiendotuyo]

@TheProphetNabob You just started your channel in order to smear The Automatic Earth writers with false accusations. You are probably a shill paid by the corporations and/or the government.

Stoneleigh/Ilargi offer the most articulated analysis on current affairs I have read/heard for years. Evidence based. Plus solutions: Bottom up approaches. Collaborate with others. Work with your community. Be constructive & creative. Discard the hate & blame game. All things autocratic organizations hate.

[shelterbaynow]

Nicole is hard to understand because of the impact of what she's saying. Uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, but unfortunately true. Peak oil and climate change are dire, but the economic collapse if near/now.

[Physicsnerd1]

Genius, shear unadulterated Genius!

[cyrusp100]

@Physicsnerd1 Nicole (Stoneleigh) is fantastic. You won't meet anyone else you has such a deep understanding of both science and economics.