More Science Teachers Grasping Reality of Peak Oil

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRWEB) October 27, 2006 — Just two or three years ago, if you had asked a science teacher about “peak oil,” chances are he or she would have drawn a blank. But if the recent gathering of 3,000 science educators in San Francisco is any indication, a massive shift in awareness has taken place — thanks in no small part to activists such as Richard Katz and Dennis Brumm.

Last week, these two San Francisco residents were busy working the floor of the California Science Education Conference, talking to teachers about peak oil — the idea that global petroleum flows will soon crest and decline. They also passed out copies of The Oil Age, a richly detailed poster depicting the rise and fall of mankind’s most valuable energy resource.

“I was amazed at how many teachers already understood the concept of peak oil and its implications for modern industrial societies,” says Katz, a member of several local peak-oil community groups, including SF Post Carbon and SF Informatics, which produced the oil poster. “Science teachers grasp the issue of peak oil at a basic level because it’s really a simple matter of geology and the fact that we are drawing down a finite resource.”

Brumm, a long-time community activist, has been involved in numerous grass-roots campaigns to sound the alarm over what amounts to a permanent global energy crisis. Earlier this year, he and three other activists convinced San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to pass the first peak oil resolution in a major American city.

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