"Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand." Mr van der Verr, Chief Executive. Shell Oil
When the Chief Exec of a major oil company says that, it's time to sit up, think, and take action.
David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock; journalist; reporter (BBC's Money Programme, Horizon); and documentary filmmaker, explains the back-story of Peak Oil and the additional challenges it poses for modern man waking up to a Climate Change dawn.
Imagine life without energy? Now imagine life without energy in a world of Climate Change!
With the price of oil now regularly breaching the $100/barrel mark, and the impact on food prices and production - to name just one life essential - that will have going forward. If we couple that with the recent crop failures of the major grain-producing countries which is resulting in a worldwide shortage of wheat, record prices and export tariffs (imposed by the major grain exporting countries to preserve stocks for their own populations); it's time, surely, to begin thinking about how we must adjust our way of life and economic infrastructure... whilst we still can.
We go over the reasons for declining oil production and the ramifications for petroleum man. We also examine some of the proposed solutions like: biofuels (dangerous); technology (delusional); carbon sequestration (when?); coal (carbon emmissions) etc...
This conversation is slanted towards the UK's new army of Domestic Energy Assessors but there is nothing said that can't be understood by all; in other words there's no technical jargon.
Peak oil, energy and climate change.
