Peak Oil and a Changing Climate

The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil runs out? In a new video series from The Nation magazine and On The Earth Productions, Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and other scientists, researchers and writers explain.

Visit TheNation.com for more videos in this series.

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[Quercuspalustris50]

I saw that same Scientific American paper about peak oil around 2000. I thought, "Oh, that's decades off", but apparently it's happening now - production has been flat since 2006, and economies aren't dealing with it too good.

[Jack Ashley]

So we leave it to our grandchildren? Maybe Great Grandchildren?

Let's be the society in history that did something BEFORE there was a problem.

Like War is a response to a threat, just think of what could be avoided by being proactive.

[ManintheArmor]

I've got a mouth with a tongue still inside. Will that work? :D

Damn this monitor. It is in the way.

[Payhole Everdouche]

Is that a promise or are you teasing me?

I'm could use a good hard shag right about now.

[CrysisVragu1550]

Fuck you

[cbohar84]

Time to return to the waterwheel :(

[Geof B]

i wont change him by talking to him but i think better to critisise him . he seems to have a following of mindless groupies who follow him without thinking

[Driscotus]

Call him out on it. chomsky@mit.edu

[Geof B]

chomsky is the famous one for not using facts and figures . he effectivly says fuck---all the time and never says a specific thing . a shit dribbler

[Payhole Everdouche]

How about if you try to make an effective counter point using facts and figures without the personal insults and ad hominem remarks. Just give it a try as a mental exercise. 

[Yuoskalola]

Yeah you're right there's no problem. Everything's fine. Can't you tell?

[Yuoskalola]

WHAT DOES IT MATTER what "they" say. Wether you call it climate change, global warming, shooting someone in the ass with a dart gun, whatever all you have to do is LOOK with your own eyes and see the trash, see the waste, see the scum that humanity has created and it's impossible to not SEE we are destroying the planet