tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post84311861722204291..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Could peak oil save the human species?Kurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-75773649077719883852010-10-04T04:48:24.432-04:002010-10-04T04:48:24.432-04:00Let's consider the fact The United States is t...Let's consider the fact The United States is the largest energy consumer in terms of total use. That facts should realized US people, that they consumes oil more than other people in this Earth. So, every body (including us) should take responsibility about this condition and starting to change their behavior on oil consumption. <br /><br />To save our planet, we need to change our behavior, our consumption on oil and gas. High demand of oil will make Oil company explore more and more oil and gas, the we produce more heat and pollutions, damage our ozone.<br /><br />Because when the needs of oil is decreasing, the Oil company will decrease their production. This is a good news for us, that we have a power to control oil production by changing our consumption behavior.<br /><br />So, let's start to buy smaller car (engine), use electric power wisely, shut down the computer after working, use public transport to workplace.mobil bekashttp://www.mobilbekas.co.idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-71062390239251947562010-09-29T16:13:54.667-04:002010-09-29T16:13:54.667-04:00guymcpherson.com for those sources, jaggedben, sta...guymcpherson.com for those sources, jaggedben, starting with http://guymcpherson.com/2010/04/surveying-the-field-and-charting-a-course/Guy R. McPhersonhttp://guymcpherson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-3221314724631216012010-09-28T14:03:48.013-04:002010-09-28T14:03:48.013-04:00"many sources indicate the industrial economy..."many sources indicate the industrial economy will be done by the end of 2012."<br /><br />Surely you don't mean to say there will be no 'industries' left on earth in two years. Statements like this, if meant to be taken seriously, need to be more specific.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845156229855095380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-33060204836053833952010-09-28T07:46:15.968-04:002010-09-28T07:46:15.968-04:00"PO cannot and will not save us unless it is ..."PO cannot and will not save us unless it is extreme, and comes incredibly fast."<br /><br />I think it will. As I said during my presentation, many sources indicate the industrial economy will be done by the end of 2012. I suspect that's fast enough. At least, that's my hope.Guy R. McPhersonhttp://guymcpherson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-89129987519775776592010-09-28T03:55:57.240-04:002010-09-28T03:55:57.240-04:00Unfortunately, Peak Oil will not destabilize socie...Unfortunately, Peak Oil will not destabilize society fast enough to mitigate climate issues unless it happens really, really quickly.<br /><br />The first reason is below. Pay very careful attention to what they say about sea bed and permafrost methane.<br /><br />http://stephenleahy.net/2010/09/23/arctic-ice-in-death-spiral-risks-climate-catastrophe/<br /><br />"Present pledges by governments to reduce emissions will still result in a global average temperature increase of 3.5 to 3.9 C by 2100, according to the latest analysis. That would result in an Arctic that’s 10 to 16 degrees C warmer, releasing most of the permafrost carbon and methane and unknown quantities of methane hydrates.<br /><br />This is why some climate scientists are calling for a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels, recommending that fossil fuel emissions peak by 2015 and decline three per cent per year. But even then there’s still a 50-percent probability of exceeding two degrees C current studies show."<br /><br />Secondly, you could stop all emissions tomorrow and we're still committed to another 1C warming, yet those clathrates are already melting.<br /><br />Third, a recent paper indicated CO2 concentrations as low as 400 ppm could lead to disintegration of the Greenland Ice Sheet. We are about three years away from that.<br /><br />Another couple of papers have placed overall climate sensitivity at 5C, which would indicate we are already committed to about 2C.<br /><br />Also, with collapse would come the burning of whatever is available, including forests. That is, it won't necessarily stop emissions.<br /><br />No, there is only one sure answer to climate taking us all out: Don't just reduce emissions, but draw down carbon back to pre-industrial times. <br /><br />That means the creation of regenerative systems for us to live within. It means growing food regeneratively and the same for forest ecosystems to take up carbon and reducing consumption drastically. <br /><br />Steady state economics would appear to also be an only option.<br /><br />Sorry the news isn't better, but PO cannot and will not save us unless it is extreme, and comes incredibly fast.<br /><br />Cheersccpohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02608765517662755393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-48249062600467092242010-09-27T20:54:12.330-04:002010-09-27T20:54:12.330-04:00Hopefully Rob Hopkins won't be offended if I r...Hopefully Rob Hopkins won't be offended if I repost a comment I made over at the Transition Culture blog. It explains why my view is different from McPhersons. (Does this make me more pessimistic than McPherson? I'm not sure I ever thought I would see myself that way.)<br /><br />Here is the quote:<br />-----<br />We already know that human beings have historically devastated biomass stores on this planet(read: forests), even while also using lots of fossil fuels. Moreover, we know that deforestation continues to be the biggest problem in places where fossil fuel use isn’t actually the highest per capita (Africa, Brazil, Haiti). There are also already concerns about deforestation in Siberia, and that is just because of demand for wood for consumer products made in China, NOT for fuel. Telling billions of high-energy users in richer countries to start burning more wood is, in my opinion, a recipe for stripping the planet bare of its remaining forests. I’m not sure that the math on CO2 emissions even matters!!<br /><br />We only have two options. 1) use less, and 2) get what we do use from sources that can be truly disassociated from the carbon cycle, such as solar (thermal and electric), wind, and (if we can accept its other problems for as long as it lasts) nuclear. We can insert a fair amount of such technology into the world without killing Gaia.<br /><br />Frankly, my biggest fear for the future of humanity is that economic and civilizational collapse will eliminate the technological knowledge necessary to maintain completely carbon-FREE sources of energy, and that billions of helpless, desperate people will see no other options but to burn the biosphere until it is gone.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845156229855095380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-73479753430175025422010-09-27T05:59:06.687-04:002010-09-27T05:59:06.687-04:00Industrial Hemp Industrial Hemp Industrial Hemp.
...Industrial Hemp Industrial Hemp Industrial Hemp.<br /><br />Cheap<br />Scalable<br />Repairs soil<br />Absorbs co2<br />Improves health<br />25,000 industrial uses<br />creates jobs<br />creates self sufficiency<br />Renewable every year<br /><br />If this is not grasped THE USA will not survive.Its the only alternative that can provide liquid fuel thats required.Kalkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10556589379141734253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-89863661588486181712010-09-26T22:22:51.879-04:002010-09-26T22:22:51.879-04:00My son starts college next year hopefully at the o...My son starts college next year hopefully at the one of his choices that has a permaculture farm where the students learn by doing and come out with the international certificate in permaculture.<br /><br />Young people (and old) need to be embracing the life Guy has embraced.<br /><br />It's that or likely falter sometime in the next two decades.John Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17222958547864356881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-36575551008992854572010-09-26T17:37:07.420-04:002010-09-26T17:37:07.420-04:00How excellent! A fellow traveller. And I have goat...How excellent! A fellow traveller. And I have goats too, but no milk until next year.tubaplayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576376998747093575noreply@blogger.com