[Peakoil] Peak oil activism in Queensland

[Keith Thomas]

Some readers will be familiar with Kim Bax's energetic activism. I have 
pasted below her latest foray.

See her website for many other examples, both cheeky and serious:

http://www.kimspages.org

(You'll need to paste the links in the article below; clicking won't 
work.)
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Keith Thomas
www.evfit.com
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  From: "Kim Bax" kim_bax at yahoo.com.au
  Date: Sun May 14, 2006 6:51pm(PDT)
  Subject: Peak Oil & education in Qld . . . .

  I've just sent this out:-

  From Mrs. Kim Bax,
  77 Orion Road,
  Cedar Vale,
  Qld 4285

  To Rod Welford, Minister for Education, Qld

  Cc - Queensland's high schools

  Cc - Queensland's state politicians


  Dear Rod,

  Re my question to you on educating Queensland's children about "Peak 
Oil,"
  sent on the 17th March 2005 (now almost 2 months ago). Here it is:-

http://www.kimspages.org/rodwelford.htm

  No answers on this yet Rod? It's very important, seeing as the lives 
our
  children will be very different from our own - as expensive/scarce oil
  replaces cheap/abundant supplies (an assumption our entire society, and
  financial system, is built on). Surely the major changes they're facing
  should be an integral part of their current education? I'm the mother 
of a
  14 year old, and this worries me very much

  Or is it too embarrassing to formally teach Queensland's children about
  these major changes, while the Queensland Government is embarked on 
massive
  road tunnel toll projects? I've formally written to my super fund (Q 
Super)
  about the inadvisability of investing in this planned infrastructure - 
and
  I'm still awaiting their reply. Here's my fax to them:-

http://www.kimspages.org/qsuperletter.htm

  I'll send official reminders at appropriate intervals.

  I note that a recent article in "The Sunday Mail" (Darrel Giles), 
predicted
  $2 a litre petrol by Christmas - and one of the World's leading 
investment
  bankers (Goldman Sachs), is predicting $105 litre a barrel petrol in 
the
  near future.

  As for educational resources, I would recommend this new DVD (which 
I've
  just purchased), from "The Community Solution." It's called "The Power 
of
  Community" and documents how Cuba survived a massive overnight cut in 
its
  oil imports, when the Soviet Union collapsed. In a nutshell, they've
  already experienced "Peak Oil" - and come out the other side without 
mass
  starvation or homelessness:-

http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html

  I'm also showing this other DVD to my local Chamber of Commerce 
(Beaudesert)
  in the near future ("Imposed by Nature"):-

http://www.postcarbon.org/node/404

  Look forward to hearing from you.

  Best wishes, Kim
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