links for 2006-04-22

Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash

"an oil-based economy such as ours doesn't need to deplete its entire reserve of oil before it begins to collapse. A shortfall between...10-15 percent is enough to wholly shatter an oil-dependent economy and reduce its citizenry to poverty."

(tags: environment future oil collapse peak_oil)

Posted by Gene Smith on Apr 22, 2006

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Peter Morville says...

If you want to be further depressed about the near future, read The Long Emergency:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802142494/

This threat worries me even more than participatory tagging systems.

Posted on Apr 25, 2006

Gene says...

Yeah, The Long Emergency is already at the top of my to-read stack. There's an interview with the author available on Google Video as well: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4878856748297910182&q=kunstler&pl=true

Posted on Apr 25, 2006

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