PEAK OIL AND GLOBAL WARMING

Cheap oil is coming to an end.  Within the next decade or two world oil production is likely to reach a peak and then begin an irreversible decline.  The end of cheap oil threatens to stall and even reverse economic growth worldwide.  This could lead to profound disruptions in our way of life, especially in the areas of transportation and food production.  How will we deal with the coming oil crisis and the needed energy transition?  Will these disruptions prevent us from dealing with the other great problem associated with the oil age, global warming?  Will we choose to prolong our dependence on hydrocarbons such as coal and risk the future of our children and grandchildren? Or can we choose a path that both solves global warming and leads to a future based on clean, renewable energy?
 Special Guest Interlocutor Maynard Kaufman PhD, founder Michigan Organic Farmers Association
                                               SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2-4 p.m                                                    LAKESHORE INTERFAITH INSTITUTE,
6676 122nd GANGES, MI 49408
269 543 3951  tapas@accn.org
 $5.00 donation is welcome; students are FREE
           
Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer who focuses on environmental and natural resource issues. He authors a weblog called Resource Insights and his work has been featured on Energy Bulletin and 321energy. He is currently at work on a book on oil depletion and how we can respond to it.
 See www.resourceinsights.blogspot.com

This event is offered in conjunction with a day of action on global warming sponsored by
 

                          Climate Crisis  USA Join the World  
                     The PeopleSpeak, www.thepeoplespeak.org 
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A new entry titled '650,000 years of greenhouse gas concentrations' has been posted to RealClimate.org.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=221