[Serendipity]

Went to the theather this week end. Some trailers and ad before the beginning of the movie.

Large shot about the Easter Island with Moais. No voice over yet.

Being a good peakoiler, every time I see something about Easter Island I think about die off, canibalism and other nice things.

Since this was before a Walt Disney movie, I expected it was about a car, a watch or whatever..

But it was about * Peak oil *. Gasp !

There was a small summary about the crash of the Maois civilization, they explicitely talked about the lack of wood, and then more generally than all energy ressources were not infinite. They didn't say oil or gas specifically but that was pretty transparent. The closing lines were that EDF invested in renewable energy.

( I don't know if this ad is on TV since I don't have one. )

Unfortunaltely the video are in French only, I haven't found a subtitled one.

If anyone find a good translation of the voice over, feel free to post.


I am pretty shocked in fact. You go to see a family movie and an ad about Peak Oil pops up. My doomerosity level has suddenly increased.. a lot !

It means that the situation is that bad...

Link to the video :
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/se ... deo/274833

Link to the site :
http://www.edf.fr/html/paques/Internet/index.html

[Leanan]

Interesting.

I saw a new ad about global warming on TV this morning. It was sponsored by several different groups. One was an environmental group, one was Pat Robertson, the rightwing Christian evangelist. (He's seen the light on global warming after the recent heat wave.)

It shows a man standing in front of an oncoming train. The narrator says something about global warming not being a serious problem for 30 years, so "It won't affect me." The man steps out of the path of the train, and you see that standing behind him, hidden from view until then, is a little girl, with the train bearing down on her.

EDIT: You can see the ad here.

[Doly]

So EDF is peak oil and gas aware.

That explains why they have been sending me all those offers that I've immediately joined as a good peaker, like fixed prices for a couple of years, and then metering my electricity more exactly.

The interesting thing is that this advert seems specifically targeted to peakers. Your average clueless person would probably not get so quickly what the advert is about. Or maybe they're targeting people that are half-aware, to convince them that what their partner/friend/close relative is saying is actually correct.

You know, I always said that peak oil awareness would dawn gradually on people, because there would be no official announcement, just more and more comments about it on the media.

What I never foresaw is that big companies would do part of the awareness campaign.

I really, really, really need to get that houseboat soon.

[Grifter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Doly', '
')You know, I always said that peak oil awareness would dawn gradually on people, because there would be no official announcement, just more and more comments about it on the media.

[sameu]

this is scary

just a couple of weeks ago I was talking to a friend about po and another friend told her the story of the eastern islands

now this

and it's true, most people won't grasp the true message, namely, our society is at risk, we face a possible similar catastrophe like on the easterns islands, we're in deep shit

in a way funny, they're bringing the po news in such a way nobody will notice how dire this message in fact is

[lorenzo]

To those who have read Jared Diamond's "Collapse": have you also read chapter 9, about Tokugawa Japan, the Papuan highlanders, Tikopia?

And if so, is there any reason to believe that we will not succeed? Why would the only option be disaster, doom and Easter island?

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', 'W')hy would the only option be disaster, doom and Easter island?

[Ingenuity_Gap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', 'T')o those who have read Jared Diamond's "Collapse": have you also read chapter 9, about Tokugawa Japan, the Papuan highlanders, Tikopia?

And if so, is there any reason to believe that we will not succeed? Why would the only option be disaster, doom and Easter island?

[grabby]

PEAK OIL is the end of CHEAP OIL

Biofuels cannot give us back cheap oil.


They can't even change when we run a little lower on real oil.

When that happens they are not going to have block parties in the street/

[mekrob]

Sameu:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'e')asterns islands

[Ludi]

oops

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', 'T')o those who have read Jared Diamond's "Collapse": have you also read chapter 9, about Tokugawa Japan, the Papuan highlanders, Tikopia?

And if so, is there any reason to believe that we will not succeed? Why would the only option be disaster, doom and Easter island?

[Leanan]

The reason I think we will not succeed is that we are not Tikopia.

All of the Diamond's "successful" societies were isolated. They were all on islands, with little contact with the outside world.

You can see how this would be an advantage. If you are sustainable, and your neighbors are not, it won't be long before they'll use their unsustainable guns, tanks, helicopter gunships, nuclear bombs, and sheer numbers to overwhelm you and take your resources.

Societies in conflict are forced into an unsustainable arm race. Only societies which are isolated from other societies can avoid it.

Unfortunately, no society is isolated these days.

[sameu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'S')ameu:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'e')asterns islands

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'T')he reason I think we will not succeed is that we are not Tikopia.

All of the Diamond's "successful" societies were isolated. They were all on islands, with little contact with the outside world.

You can see how this would be an advantage. If you are sustainable, and your neighbors are not, it won't be long before they'll use their unsustainable guns, tanks, helicopter gunships, nuclear bombs, and sheer numbers to overwhelm you and take your resources.

Societies in conflict are forced into an unsustainable arm race. Only societies which are isolated from other societies can avoid it.

Unfortunately, no society is isolated these days.