Hibernating
Posted by Big Gav
The time has come for Peak Energy to go into winter hibernation - see you all again in a few weeks time. In the meantime you can find more news than you can read each day in the links to the right.
For those visitors who have come across this blog at random and want to know what on earth its all about (or confused long time readers who still haven't worked it out), the quick version is:
1. Peak oil is real and a problem (although not in itself as serious as some of the doomer schools of thought would have us believe, nor likely as imminent as some claim).
2. Global warming is real and a serious problem.
3. Oil dependence (and the desire to use it to control others) is leading us to do a lot of unpleasant things (and thus you'll see references to Iraq, terrorism, resource wars and the propaganda and surveillance industries)
4. There are lots of solutions for dealing with all 3 of these problems - however there is a lot of inertia and political resistance hindering the adoption of these (and some solutions to peak oil are anti-solutions to global warming, so dealing with both requires some intelligent policy and investment decisions to be made)
5. I like to add an element of randomness, so there is also a tendency for various pieces of technology news and unusual thinking from the fringes to get thrown in with news related to the above. This stops me getting too stale dealing with the same subject matter day after day - if you find these segments annoying, then go somewhere else - there are more than 100 million blogs out there...
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