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Peak Oil & System Justification: “Threatening” Status Quo
Peak Oil & System Justification: “Threatening” Status Quo It’s a lot easier to seek confirmation than information. So not only does the online world provide less information, it provides more spin and distortion of that information from an online empire of advocates that enables us as never before to find the voices we agree with, and […]
Peak Oil & System Justification: Avoidance
Peak Oil & System Justification: Avoidance The researchers found that being intolerant of ambiguity is associated with such conservative characteristics as unwavering certainty and strong loyalty to particular people and positions. Conservatives don’t feel the need to jump through complex, intellectual hoops in order to understand or justify some of their positions. They are more comfortable […]
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 10
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 10 Shaping our identity in large part by the groups we align ourselves with for emotional, psychological, cultural, and political reasons are powerful anchors—individually and collectively. All of us are much more inclined to seek out information and assurances which bolster who we believe ourselves to be […]
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 8
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 8 Of course it’s threatening to think that our lifestyles, systems of governing, and capitalist processes themselves may all face drastic changes in the not-too-distant future because of the facts and reality of Peak Oil and climate change! I’m certainly notthe poster-child for Peak Oil advocacy and lifestyles. I […]
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 1
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 1 Research has powerfully illustrated that a lack of knowledge in domains such as energy and the environment can lead to bad decisions and erroneous beliefs that hinder a society’s ability to create change in domains that require it KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING Rather self-evident, isn’t it? Certainly that […]
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 4
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 4 We remain free as always to choose to fear the consequences of a permanent decline in the availability of affordable and accessible fossil fuel supplies. The enduring impact on our society and our ways of life as a result of a diminished supply of our primary energy supply […]
Global Energy Advisory June 17th 2016
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 11 Entrenched as each side is in what seems an endless and ever-disheartening conflict between conservatives and progressives, finding seams to broaden discussions is no easy task. Cocooned as each partisan is in the selective comfort of peer perspectives and beliefs, suspicion and ridicule are the […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 9
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 9 There are—almost always—at least two sides to any story of significance and potential impact upon others. The greater the impact and potential for a range of outcomes, the more certain one can be that there are more than a handful of factors, considerations, and perspectives […]
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1 I ended last week’s post by explaining the significance of getting all of the facts about our energy supply future as a first step. Before deciding whether or not to accept the realities of a depleting finite resource and the impact this will have on our society—or ignoring […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 7
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 7 I began last week’s post with a variation of these questions: How do optimistic projections from ExxonMobil’s “The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040” report—which I highlighted in that post—square themselves in the face of the oil production challenges suggested by the news excerpts which were also […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 6
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 6 I suggested at the outset of this series that I did not want it to turn into yet another exercise in mocking those who do not accept the implications of peak oil. A legitimate argument could be made that I’ve failed in that objective. I […]
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 4
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 4 A fossil fuel-driven-and-made-possible life is all any of us have ever known. There are virtually no aspects of commerce, leisure, transportation, or consumption which do not depend in some part on inexpensive, readily-available and easily-produced fossil fuels. That is most certainly not going to change dramatically overnight, […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5 [T]he West’s energy security is assured to a degree that has not existed in the past. That’s good news for the American people and for the world, even if it is not news that Obama wants to hear. He doesn’t? I wonder how that author knows […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 4
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 4 I’ve mentioned in the prior posts of this series that there were two articles posted online a number of weeks ago * which caught my attention for reasons which at first puzzled me. No disrespect intended either author, but the contents of each were fairly […]
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 2
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 2 If nothing else, we’ll need to recognize that, like climate change, Peak Oil is not some event looming on a distant horizon. Peak Oil is happening now. We must guard against the notion that Peak Oil’s impact (like climate change) is just a one-time, cataclysmic episode “scheduled” […]
