Oil-Apocalypse?
Posted by DLW in Uncategorized at 5:14 pm | 
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There is a decent summary of claims that the decline of annual aggregate oil production is going to cause apocalyptic problems over at Theologyweb. One of my students from Mexico told me that he was saving up to hole in during the coming apocalypse and I think he was only half joking.
I consider myself a quasi-optimist inasmuch as I think that given the evidence it should be easy for professionals to call for immediate action/leadership to reduce our dependence on oil/gas by taxing oil/gas so as to spur innovations/research immediately. I also think that such a tax can be made politically feasible if we reform our tax-system to make it simpler and more progressive.
Int’l governance will loom in its importance as we begin the search for alternatives to oil for energy. We do not need to replicate research and it will be important that the results be accessible to all, or else we will have the sort of political imbalances currently being caused by the wealth created by oil.
dlw
The 1st of September, 2005 at 11:45 pm
DLW, I really don’t remember deleting a comment and feel bad about that. I don’t know what happened. Rest assured, I would never purposefully censor you on my blog, even if I disagreed with you.
My apologies and please feel free to repost anytime.
Streak
The 10th of December, 2005 at 4:21 am
[…] No individual or group can change the dire “Peak Oil” situation our world is facing on their own. There needs to be bottom-up changes from within and greater cooperation across groups to deal effectively with the problem. […]