Social Effects of Peak Oil

Peak Moment 69: How will rising oil prices affect low- and middle-class lives? Sociologist and professor Rowan Wolf sees at-risk populations growing while government services and class divides are increasingly strained. A member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, she discusses relocalizing our economies, to counter globalization based on an unsupportable grow-or-die economic model.

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• disenfranchised
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• globalization
• local
• economies

[symmetry08]

By 2020 american resource association anounced that average people won't drive car. Now we have 7 billion people almost and earth have to get rid of 4-5 billion to keep sustainable economy. How is gonna be done. I guess that will be a WAR. They can't just disappear. They are hungry and angry. Nothing else to lose.

[peakmoment]

You've named a big challenge--many observers believe the planet can only sustain from a half to one billion people. How to reduce? Compassionately: provide incentives to have fewer or no children, increase economic security, improving women's opportunities, access to birth control and abortion, change of religious and cultural attitudes. Not compassionately: war, epidemics, disease, starvation, toxicity, radiation, social breakdown.

[moniequa]

You know what people really need to wake up. There is no peak oil there is only a manipulation of oil so the top could hike gas prices. Stop perpetuate the lies. Last summer we experience peak rice, what happened to that now? We were going to run out of houses, what happened to that now? We cannot let them manipulate us like a bunch of idiots, wake up!

[peakmoment]

You can't look only at prices, which are down now because of financial market reasons, not supply and demand. There has been an oversupply of houses in the US, and a huge bubble of debt which is causing the economic collapse. But demand for oil is approaching available supply in the world. Demand has slowed, so peak oil may be further off. But it's a finite resource, and alternative fuels are far, far less concentrated & efficient.

[bucketonamonkeyshead]

Both of these men put forward a great argument

- well done.

[DFORCE1969]

Another informative episode from the Peak moment prophets.

[Youmakemefart]

@bucketonamonkeyshead

lol for the name and lol for the comment

[Youmakemefart]

she sais "you know" soooo often :D

[dcin73]

Good stuff Rowan!

[controlpopulation]

You have to cut population with birth restrictions worldwide. EVERY country must enact birth restrictions and strict consequences should be enacted against any country unwilling to enforce them. Every country in the world has grown its population the last 50 years and everyone is at fault.

Another program that needs to be stopped is mass immigration. It encourages births in countries losing the people and in countries gaining the population.

Enough is enough, its time to get tough.

[moniequa]

dutchess4now5 You're nothing but a stupid asshole who believes whatever they media says. Shit is also peaking why don't you save that too.