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Peak Oil: The Ultimate Challenge for Transition
very interesting lecture from susan krumdieck
Professor Krumdieck was asked – “what is the ultimate challenge?”. This presentation was given to the 2014 Leadership NZ workshop in Christchurch (Leadership New Zealand Trust).
6 Comments on "Peak Oil: The Ultimate Challenge for Transition"
tahoe1780 on Sun, 19th Oct 2014 1:04 pm
Godspeed!
Richard on Sun, 19th Oct 2014 1:27 pm
I’ve known about this since late summer 2007, and I’m a young person myself.
Some people have known of this for many years, begining of this century or learnt of it at the end of the last.
I don’t think much will change. Far too many of us are just juvenile about our existence in relation to the environment.
Jerry McManus on Sun, 19th Oct 2014 1:44 pm
Wouldn’t it be easier to just face the fact that our ongoing global ecological overshoot will inevitably be followed by collapse?
When have you ever seen algae in a pond, at the peak of their exuberant spring-time bloom, suddenly cry out “We must stop eating all this accumulated detritus! It’s unsustainable!”
As the late great Martin Luther King Jr. once said:
“The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood- it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilization are written the words, “Too late.”
Makati1 on Sun, 19th Oct 2014 9:10 pm
Jerry, ours will be added to the list. Collapse is as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow. The only questions are:
When? How fast? Anyone left?
fry10ck on Tue, 21st Oct 2014 5:09 pm
Superb quote Jerry. Have not read that one before.
Paul Field on Tue, 21st Oct 2014 6:16 pm
The thing about following nature and facing a collapse is that we don’t need to. Unlike algae we have the most amazing thing in the known universe housed in our heads – but we just don’t use it. A civilization will one day navigate through this mire, I just hope it’s us.