Posts Tagged ‘peak oil’

Chris Nelder: Peak oil and the future of corn flakes, cities, and trips to Paris

Wednesday, 03 November 2010 08:52 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

Chris Nelder is the author of Profit from the Peak, Investing in Alternative Energy, and the editor of www.getrealist.com. He is one of the world’s experts on the limits of the world’s oil supply, and here he has some major forecasts that all leaders should consider carefully.

  • We already hit peak oil in 2004. The era of cheap oil is ending every day.
  • Like corn flakes? Soon they won’t make economic sense.
  • Air travel as we know it we be for the rich after 2015.
  • Cities need to have a plan to transition back from suburbanization
  • Investors need to forget fiat assets and get into hard goods for the transition.

Interview with Pam Atherton on A Closer Look radio

Monday, 15 February 2010 15:39 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

Last week I had the enormous pleasure to speak with Pam Atherton on A Closer Look radio. She’s a bona fide radio professional with a profound understanding of society, the Pam Athertonmedia, information, wisdom, and how to ask great questions. This hour-long interview on the future of energy and local communities could have gone on much longer, and felt like in went by in a few moments.

We delve into the implications of peak oil, why local gardens are the new hotness, and how organizations deal with information about the future. Definitely worth a listen.

Gregor Macdonald on the future of energy, economics, and society

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 12:46 Written by Eric Garland 1 Comment

For those of you who know Gregor MacDonald, you know you’re in for a treat with this podcast- a full hour of some of Gregor’s latest forecasts on energy, economics and society, insights you simply won’t get anywhere else.

For those of you who haven’t discovered Gregor yet, he is one of the top energy analysts in the world, and in our minds, one of the top analysts of anything, period.

This podcast covers sweeping ground:

  • Why we’re at peak automobiles
  • The end of cheap oil
  • Coal’s role in the development of the world economy
  • The return to human capital and small towns
  • Why waterways are the future
  • Our current period of “late phase economic decadence
  • Why PAKISTAN holds the key to the Copenhagen Protocol

Crazier still, we could have spend ANOTHER hour talking to him and still not exhausted him of insight.

Enjoy.

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Jim Kunstler: This is about Peak Oil

Monday, 02 March 2009 17:31 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

Oil is the proxy for the end of the growth paradigm.

The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by the prospect of no further oil-fueled growth. It was something of a shock to many that the first complex system to fail would be banking, but the process is obvious: no more growth means no more ability to pay interest on credit… end of story, as Tony Soprano used to say.

For those of you straining to achieve industrial sustainability, this is actually a major step forward. Not only was the old system bad ecology, it’s now bad economics, too. We get to rebuild the next system aligning both the planet’s balance sheet and our own.

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