Richard Heinberg's Peak Everything - Part 2

Waking Up to the Century of Declines.
One of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators gives us his insight into the coming century. Recorded in Orewa on Tuesday 9th October 2007.

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[elfboi523]

I wouldn't call it "doomed"... I'd rather say we're living in interesting times.

[cds10690]

elfboi523.. yes i gues i could have said the whole world... we are all doomed

[aterseraph]

Learn to hunt, fish, grow your own food, live in smaller tight knit communities boys and girls. Shit is hitting the fan. Just think what will happen in your town when at the local super-market the delivery trucks can only run once a week because of the cost of fuel..that food travels on the average of 2000 miles from where it was grown to make it to your market shelf....we are in trouble. Prepare...interesting times indeed...

[christo930]

@christo930 Another problem is that we really haven't experienced peak oil because we have been able to make up shortfalls through imports which helps the exponential oil drilling we have done since the peak. When the world peaks, where is all the energy going to come from to start drilling millions of holes in the ground like we did in the 70's alone? It takes a lot of energy to drill even test rigs and most of them are duds, but we had the excess energy to dot that, they won't.

[christo930]

I completely disagree that the US peak oil experience is an accurate template for peak oil in other nations. The major difference is market forces in the US, especially before the peak when we had much much freer markets and oil production was market driven. Most oil exporting nations have national oil companies that completely control oil production, exploration and investment. Gov entities don't have the same incentives or behave the same way as free market capitalism.

[beastinblack]

up to $150 a barrel....

[1dschamp]

I always enjoy listening to Richard Heinberg. Very easy to listen to and stays on point. Great upload!!

[linghun]

@simplyjbr I don't have a wasteful lifestyle. But so I do not have the "last word" can you please explain what then is the solution? Or what do u think will happen?

[simplyjbr]

@linghun Ok, I give up. It's been a blast linghun. Good luck to you and all your pillage and rape buddies. I can see that you would cling to anything to maintain your excessively wasteful lifestyle, and that the quality of life for future generations is not of importance. I cannot say I learned anything new from this exchange. I'm sure you are one of those "must have last word" types, so hop to it, round it off nicely, and smugly smile at your computer screen.

[linghun]

@simplyjbr Everything is leaking radiation. The oceans contain 4.5 billion tons of uranium, every hospital is filled with radiation that cures many diseases, etc. The resources to produce new energy? Well the earth is reached by 10,000 times more solar power than humanity consumes today, that'd be a start. Hydro, wind, bio, etc. Coal can be burned with carbon-capture technology to reduce 98% pollution. And nuclear waste is not pollution unless it reaches the biosphere, which it never has.

[simplyjbr]

@linghun You are talking about the Fukushima plant that is leaking radiation into the atmosphere as I write this, right? All those things sound great! Why don't you get that party started then, and never mind where the resources come from to produce and maintain this myriad of alternatives that you believe will sustain our ever burgeoning population. 0 pollution!? Since when is toxic waste by-product not pollution? You are aware that nuclear power plants create toxic waste, aren't you?

[linghun]

@simplyjbr You mean Japan where not a single civilian has ever been killed by a nuclear powerplant? Not even by the 40-year old Fukushima hit by a 9 point earthquake + huge tsunami? The one that has been generating power without any CO2 or soot or pollution of any kind for 4 decades? And no, of course nuclear fission alone will not save the say, but solar power (= natural nuclear fusion), biofuels, electricity, man-made fusion, thermal power, wind power, fuels from algae, etc just might.