campfire.theoildrum.com - 11/5/2009
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The following is a guest post by Dan Allen, a high school teacher in New Jersey. Previously on TheOilDrum, Dr. Allen wrote The Speech Obama Needs to Give .
Note from the author: As a high-school teacher, I wanted to give my thoroughly-industrial, suburban-NJ students a more detailed peek ...
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What "Lower Consumption" Means
Peak Oil News —
... the bad news: the annual extraction rate curve is near, at, or past the point of collapse. Ask conventional economists or politicians and they will tell you the good news: Everythings going to be OK; the market will take care of it; It always has. So who do we believe? Taking a quick look past the rhetoric, the situation becomes clear -- alarmingly so for those who wish the industrial party to continue, as well as for those who fear we are not properly prepared for what follows. http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/5937 "
Everything Old is New Again
Casaubon's Book —
... There’s an interesting post over at The Oil Drum, by a high school teacher who uses this chart (scroll down the post to the end before comments) to illustrate something of the future to his students. I’m very taken by the clarity of this piece, although I understand some of the criticism of it – the leap to the old ways seems a little fast even to me – I suspect the transition to low tech will be more gradual, and “cobbling together temporary tech solutions” more prevalent. ...
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