Sunday, March 6, 2005

Inescapable Doom: Oil production is going to peak within the next year or two (perhaps it already has -- we'll know for sure when the inexhorable decline really sets in). For over half a century U.S. oil consumption has been climbing. Domestic oil production has been unable to meet our increasing demand for over three decades, forcing us into a near-total dependence on foreign oil.   Now world consumption of oil is poised to shoot past world production of oil. When that happens, the brutal reality of Peak Oil will be upon us. We will be in a terrifying race to find enough new sources of energy to sustain a planet of 6.5 billion people. Solar power, wind power, wave and water power, geothermal, heat recovery... it will take a "war effort" of our biggest ideas in high tech innovation to invent ourselves out of this looming crisis. And as we do, the old non-renewable fuels needed to research, develop and manufacture any hopeful alternative power sources will be rapidly depleted.   "Peak Oil - Life After the Crash" is essential reading. It is a long article. Read it completely. Understand it. Take it to heart. Everyone on Planet Earth needs to know that the biggest challenge we've ever faced as a species is just a few years away. How we frame the public debate and how we act as nations and a global society -- to make the great last-chance leap to renewable power -- will make the difference between surviving... or inescapable doom. [Tame Bear] 4:43:53 PM

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