Sentences with phrase «political peak oil»

What evidence do we have that «oil majors» could be experiencing political peak oil?

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But the political reality in the United States remains that more oil will be needed before the country uses less, even as evidence emerges that «peak travel» is nigh (more on that concept soon).

From the press release (here): «Holmgren uses a scenario planning framework to bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural and economic implications of peak oil and climate change.

The middleground of establishing the truth of the peak oil turning point (along with the political volatility that accompanies it), combined with the universal desire for «clean water» and «fresh air» may still be the best place to begin in improving our «climate».

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

And the interests that resist this, along with the implications of peak oil, are the stronger political interests, David.

Publication date: 2007-06-01 First published in: Review of Radical Political Economics Authors: F. Curtis Abstract: This article argues that economic globalization may be undermined by predicted impacts of global warming and peak oil (depletion).

People will argue oil price spikes are being caused by political unrest, not the underlying reality of peak oil.

Imagine living in a time when global political instability seems the norm, peak oil is widely understood and accepted as an immediate risk, transportation alternatives are getting serious interest by investors, and governments the world over are strategizing over how to control their respective energy futures.

I agree that peak oil presents significant risks to socio / economic / political stability necessary for the maintenance of civilization, and that its confluence with AGW multiplies the risk that we will find ourselves Hot, Flat, Crowded, Broke, Hungry, Angry, and Out of Options.We will soon be up to our asses in Black Swans.

Given the cuts to Government spending that are kicking in everywhere, is it time to ask what role green groups should play in a shrinking state?Transition Movement Gets Political I started pondering this question having read a heart - felt and passionate account by Sarah Nicholl and Marietta Birkholtz over at Transition Culture of how climate change and peak oil activists are fighting swinging cuts to schools, libraries and other essential public services.

They inundate us each day with their political spew with limited relevance to the sites primary mission Peak Oil....

In the report on peak oil commissioned by the US Department of Energy, the oil analyst Robert L.Hirsch concluded that «without timely mitigation, the economic, social and political costs» of world oil supplies peaking «will be unprecedented.»