A rant about Peak Oil and the media

[darksumomo]

Left as a comment on theferrett's LJ.

the media's always shouting that...Peak Oil's coming

You just hit a pet peeve of mine.

First, Peak Oil has barely scratched the surface of the corporate media's attention. Even though a search of Google News yields a lot of hits, nearly all are from blogs or from small or specialized publications. The hits from the

Comments

[theheretic]

The worst thing is that the fanatics are the biggest talkers. The people saying beans and bullets and barricades on one hand, the suicidal ex-hippies on the other. Both are convinced the world is going to end. There's some middle ground people, half of whom are selling something and the other half are fooling themselves. Most of the aforementioned think this is all going to happen very quickly, ignoring history since the price peaked

[theheretic]

Yes, its terrible. And it could sort of happen here (again) if there's drilling on the California Coastline. Drilling results in spills. Not drilling results in spills, once past the 12 mile limit. If we don't drill of our coast, someone else will, and we'll still get spills. Or they'll buy off the govt, spill anyway, and then slaughter us if we get uppity and complain, like Shell did to the Nigerians, resulting in MEND's low-level warfare

BP Oil crisis - Complexity

[matt_solis]

Why does something as simple as an oil leak turn into a full blown out crisis? Part of the reason is that British Petroleum (BP) denied world wide help until BP realized that the oil leak was much greater than they had anticipated. Even though we have access to the technology to prevent global epidemics like famine and starvation, they still occur despite our best efforts. What might start off as a simple problem can quickly escalate into a natural disaster if the appropriate response doesn’t happen immediately.

Re: BP Oil crisis - Complexity

[matt_solis]

I remember seeing a discussion on the shortage of resources and people competing for those resources on a Facebook community page http://www.facebook.com/thewatchmansrattle

Here’s the link to the actual video on why people hoard resources and compete with one another when they know working together creates the best outcome for everyone.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1493017207106