Comments on: Private industry conference finds much less oil http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57 David Strahan is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary film-maker who specializes in popularizing some of the most difficult and important stories in business and science. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tony http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57&cpage=1#comment-1593 tony Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:29:56 +0000 http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57#comment-1593 In my view, the only hope we have of saving civilization is to move towards an ecologically sustainable socialist type society. Socialism will not bring back the oil, but at least it is not a profit driven society and therefore does not need constant growth in order to cover debts and pay shareholders profits. And since production is for need, and not for profit this type of society should use less energy. The possible collapse of the present petroleum based society could, in my view, lead to another dark age. It is this we must avoid, at all costs. In my view, the only hope we have of saving civilization is to move towards an ecologically sustainable socialist type society.

Socialism will not bring back the oil, but at least it is not a profit driven society and therefore does not need constant growth in order to cover debts and pay shareholders profits. And since production is for need, and not for profit this type of society should use less energy.

The possible collapse of the present petroleum based society could, in my view, lead to another dark age. It is this we must avoid, at all costs.

]]> By: Don http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57&cpage=1#comment-919 Don Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:25:13 +0000 http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57#comment-919 I'm thinking that it might not be a bad idea to take a crash (no pun intended) course in Amish lifestyle. I already do some gardening. I’m thinking that it might not be a bad idea to take a crash (no pun intended) course in Amish lifestyle. I already do some gardening.

]]> By: Aridela http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57&cpage=1#comment-222 Aridela Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:00:25 +0000 http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57#comment-222 The human race will eat up the whole planet earth until nothing will be left to eat. Yeah what for a great success for humanity. The human race will eat up the whole planet earth until nothing will be left to eat.
Yeah what for a great success for humanity.

]]> By: David http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57&cpage=1#comment-199 David Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:14:34 +0000 http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=57#comment-199 the problem I see with well-publicized, politically acceptable industry estimates of the iminent peak, estimates that range between 5 and 40 years from now... is that it feeds America's temptation to wait until it is too late to demand that government and industry make any significant changes to mitigate the social and economic effects of Peak Oil. As I see it, whether the peak happens in my lifetime or in my children's.....IT WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN. The longer it takes to become self evident, the greater the impact will be on humanity since every day there will be more of us depending on that oil to live, and there will be less time and resources to enact broad incentives to prepare even a fraction of the human race to live beyond oil's abundance. the problem I see with well-publicized, politically acceptable industry estimates of the iminent peak, estimates that range between 5 and 40 years from now… is that it feeds America’s temptation to wait until it is too late to demand that government and industry make any significant changes to mitigate the social and economic effects of Peak Oil.

As I see it, whether the peak happens in my lifetime or in my children’s…..IT WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN. The longer it takes to become self evident, the greater the impact will be on humanity since every day there will be more of us depending on that oil to live, and there will be less time and resources to enact broad incentives to prepare even a fraction of the human race to live beyond oil’s abundance.

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