Hi, I’m Emily, a former student of Rowan’s. I live in Portland and just graduated a month ago with a major in Sociology. This entry is cross-posted over at my blog, Strangechord. Part I: President Bush has been briefed on…

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/04/13/notes041305.DTL&nl=fix

“We reproduce. We consume. We use it up and dry it all up and move on to find more and it reminds me of that line from Agent Smith in the first “Matrix” movie where he stares menacingly at Morpheus and speaks about how every mammal on Earth instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, “but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague,” and then Morpheus gets all huffy and righteous and goes on inspire Neo to prove how we are also full of beauty and fire and life and he makes it all better by saving humankind so we can go buy the mediocre soundtrack…”

it’s true that there is still a great amount of denial on a lot of parties’ parts that there is a FINITE amount, and that a peak is coming. shortly. and that our global policies - economic, military - are being swayed by that fact.
t’s true that there…

Major hat tip to Emily at Strangechord for pointing out the terrific James Howard Kunstler article in this week’s Rolling Stone about the coming oil crisis and the very real,

Meanwhile, I appreciate the reminder that these are things that need to be addressed yesterday.

Thanks for posting this. I have gotten out of the habit of reading RS - just no time. But when the Peak Oil story starts to hit mainstream pubs like this, its possible that a lot of people are going to start paying attention. Not that it will matter for most of them…

A caller brought up Peak Oil on the supposedly “progressive” Ed Schultz radio show today, but it came immediately before a break, and he never brought up the subject again.