Richard Heinberg: Peak Oil and the Globe's Limitations

Richard Heinberg, senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute and the author of The Party's Over, Peak Everything and, most recently, Blackout, discusses the phenomenon of peak oil and how it will affect life on this planet.

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[MrEnergyCzar]

Turning your yard into and edible garden like Richard does is what we all need to do...

[TheRadicalLiberal]

@speculawyer He is just telling the truth. We are running out of everything. And it gets worse - we are also using up our groundwater and soil much faster than they are being replaced. We are losing several inches of topsoil everywhere that we farm and it takes 100 years for nature to replenish an inch. Meanwhile we are drilling deeper and deeper for water in that huge amount of arable land that is watered from aquifers rather than rain.

Face it - we are fucked.

[townkevin59]

Basically, in a nut shell, we're fucked!

[crossdresser07]

Rockeffellers blocked free energy from Nikola Tesla 100 years ago.. for those of you still obsessed with oil, wake up, you sheeple!

[crossdresser07]

Rockefellers go fuck yourself!

you are doomed!

[akkonburike]

We're not fucked.

But first the BAD news: It's already too late to prevent climate change (with carbon reduction alone) [sic].

And now the GOOD news. Our ONLY problem is to get the Empire, China, India, Russia etc to work together -- to research key technologies. That's all! (Projects like building a real Space station, Fusion, AI research etc are too big for a single country).

In other words: All that needs to be done is getting the imperialists (or the "liberal elites") out of power.

[Desker009]

WE ARE FUCKED.

[oldickeastman]

The surveys are done by the monopoly oil companies themselves - they choose where to look and how hard to look. They ignore what they choose to ignore and there is no longer an honest government to check and keep them honest. Peak Oil is not a conclusion reached by honest research to get to the facts. Rather it is an excuse for monopoly pricing. Also BP oil spill and Fukushima were two events that help keep supply low and therefor prices high. This fellow has a grant - he is paid. p_wv4NTNrxU

[oldickeastman]

He has a grant and may or may not believe what he says. He  hasn't proven his case simply because the relevant surveys have not been done and what surveys are done are done by the oil monopoly industry itself. Peak Oil serves the interests oil monopoly price fixing. And the BP oil spill did it's job of scaring people from the super-abundant oil both under the sea and accessible on dry land. The purpose of false information is to get away with monopoly pricing of oil. Fukushima too. p_wv4NTNrxU

[MrMixthemusic]

This sort of thing NEEDS to be in the mass media so everyone, especially in the industrialized world, understands where we are headed. It's time for the government to start taking this more seriously. So many of our current economic problems are very strongly tied to this issue.

[Conspiracy2Riot]

@TheRadicalLiberal actually, i think it takes 500 years to replenish an inch of top soil, so you're still right...we're totally fucked.

[Battery9876]

coup de grace not coup de gras lol