No, I suspect they're terrified and in denial. In fact, I would caution you against trying to press the point home...you may be risking life and limb.mefistofeles wrote:Maybe this isn't a very kind thing to say but I was looking at a website called politico.com and utter shocked that they didn't have a single story about oil. --snip-- Peak Oil is more important than EVERY other issue that we are talking about today.
So is everybody else out there just dumb for not getting Peak Oil?
Cashmere wrote:So you walk up to somebody. You say, "your life is an illusion, the structure around you is all a temporary blip in time, and you are about to reenter the dark ages after a small dieoff of about 5 billion people."
graham wrote:Most people i've spoken to about it haven't quite got the implications of it straight away- I tend to get lots of 'we'll just use coal/nuclear/electric cars ect. Then I have to go into long winded explanations of EROEI, scalability and the implications for farming (they don't get the fact that oil isn't just fuel for cars) which usually ends with either 'OH F**K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' or 'they'll find something.' Fortunately the mainstream media seems to be waking up to whats going on, but i've yet to hear the words 'peak oil' apart from a few snippits on newsnight (a rather obscure current affairs program- equivalent to nightline?). Judging by current statments it seems Gordon Brown finally has 'got it', we just need the goverment to come clean about it and say whats really going on. Hopefully it'll bring out the 'dunkirk spirit' as Brits tend to be very good in a crisis. My only other hope then, is that we don't get a conservative goverment at the next election. They will have to reject most of their economic principals to tackle this and I don't see that happening.
And a Scottish oilman I know says the all-time high demand for oil in China and India f.ex still is 'chickenshit compared to what the US uses'.
We're only talking about the last few days mind- Brown seems to realise we can no longer run our economy on oil and has made countless statements to this effect. Also Michael Meacher MP (former enviroment minister) is very knowlegable about the subject - there is a video on youtube of him admitting the Iraq war was about securing oil supply in preperation for peak oil. The reporters on dateline london last night (bbc news 24) all seem very clued up about it, though none uttered the words 'peak oil'Oil_be_alroit wrote:Not convinced that anyone in power has 'got it' in the UK yet. Every time I go there I am more and more amazed by the rapid 'Americanization' of the place. By that I mean the colossal out-of-town shopping projects leading to the destruction of the town centres, the ubiquitous Pizza Huts, McDs, Domino's etc, senior proms, stretched limos and so the list goes on. If any European country has been setting itself up for a very hard time in a post peak world then it is the UK.
graham wrote:Most people i've spoken to about it haven't quite got the implications of We're only talking about the last few days mind- Brown seems to realise we can no longer run our economy on oil and has made countless statements to this effect. Also Michael Meacher MP (former enviroment minister) is very knowlegable about the subject - there is a video on youtube of him admitting the Iraq war was about securing oil supply in preperation for peak oil. The reporters on dateline london last night (bbc news 24) all seem very clued up about it, though none uttered the words 'peak oil'
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