It’s the End of the World As We Know It

The Peak Oil Crisis – Bryandt Urstadt; World Without Oil Game – Ken Eklund; Religion & Apocalypse – Martin Marty; Post-Apocalpytic Novel – Jim Crace; Cosmology & End of World – Lawrence Krauss

After a YouTube clip on the subject of Peak Oil, we meet journalist Bryandt Urstadt, author of a Harper’s story called “Imagine There’s No Oil: Scenes from a liberal apocalypse.” Urstadt tells Steve Paulson about the grim future the peak oilers are already getting ready for and thinks we should all buy gold.



Ken Eklund is the creator of the alternate reality game “World Without Oil.” He describes the game and we hear the comments of several game bloggers.

Theologian Martin Marty tells Steve Paulson that The Rapture, the vision of the end of the world recently popularized in the “Left Behind” series of Christian books, is a fairly recent concept and can’t be found in the Bible.

British novelist Jim Crace reads from and talks with Jim Fleming about his novel “The Pesthouse.” It takes place in America after an un-named eco-disaster has decimated the population and destroyed much of our hi-tech civilization.

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