[Peakoil] A World Without Oil - Today / Tonight ABC Radio National

[Alex P]

It starts in 12 minutes. Looks like it will be on the website soon anyhow.

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:29:15 +1100, "Adrian Whitehead" 
<ccserac.project1 at ecoaction.net.au> wrote :

> 
> Program #: 3079 
> Title: A WORLD WITHOUT OIL 
> Guest: Richard Heinberg  
> Host: Michael Toms 
> Item: 3079 
> Media: CD cassette tape MP3 
> Listening Club: Yes 
> For Sale: Yes 
> 
>   
> Thanks to Rolf von Behrens for this one.
> 
> http://www.abc.net.au/rn/summer/summer2005/subpages/newdimensions.htm
> 
> Monday 9 January midday, repeat Tuesday 10 January 1am
> New Dimensions: Richard Heinberg
> #3079 A World Without Oil
> View program details (on the New Dimensions website)* 
> 
> 
> Within our lifetimes we will see the peak in worldwide oil production. 
Soon
> after, we will be forced to learn to function without fossil fuels. The
> impact on our culture will be extraordinary-in fact, as Heinberg warns,
> "Civilization itself may be fundamentally unsustainable. When you add 
fossil
> fuels to it you have civilization on steroids. That's what we've had over
> the last couple of centuries, and that is profoundly unsustainable." But
> while change is inevitable, it's also a source of hope. Heinberg points to
> the opportunities we'll have to work in service to our natural environment
> and our culture, and explains how we will, in fact, create a world where
> every culture around the globe is a sustainable culture. 1 hr.
>  
> Richard Heinberg is a journalist, editor, lecturer and a faculty member at
> New College of California. His monthly MuseLetter received Utne Magazine's
> Alternative Press award. His articles have appeared in numerous 
periodicals,
> including Earth Island Journal, Alternative Press Review and The Sun. His
> books include The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial
> Societies (New Society Press 2003), Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact 
of
> Biotechnology (Theosophical Publishing House 1999) and Powerdown: Options
> and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (New Society Press 2004). 
>  
>  
> Topics explored in this dialogue include: 
> 
> How you can become less dependent on fossil fuels without sacrifice
> 
> Why nuclear energy is not a viable alternative to the fossil fuel crisis
> 
> How you can conserve fuel simply by eating vegetables in season
> 
> Why World War I and II were actually wars for oil
> 
> What strategies we can use to preserve our culture when we run out of oil 
>  
>  
>  
> Adrian Whitehead
> Water & Climate Campaign Officer
> Conservation Council of the SE Region and Canberra
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