I am visiting my aunt in Virginia this weekend and took the opportunity
to watch A Crude Awakening ... Nothing much new here for anybody who's read several of the books on this subject, but well done and possibly a good whack on the side of the head for anybody you can't get to read a book. Mentions the 1970's gas lines as a warmup for what's coming next, which I think hasn't been done enough. Mentions but soft-pedals the reduction in our ability to support the current 6.x billion without oil; it's realistically downbeat but not a dieoff clone.
One of the talking heads in the movie runs a website Life after the oil crash, where I found a republication of an outstanding disaster preparedness blog posting by a guy who calls himself AlphaGeek ... the original being better formatted and more readable than the republication. Originally posted in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and with some broken merchandise links, but
still oh-so-relevant. Not particularly peak-oil related, but there are plenty
of other disasters to prepare for ... and in any event my view of the peak oil
phenomenon is that it's likely to be a fraying of the fabric of industrial
civilization that makes us poorer and makes disasters and disruptions much
more likely over time rather than being a Katrina-like disaster itself.
Finally, a site with stunning graphs of the oil peak, as well as a lot of
other relevant info ...
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